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EPA is Failing to Protect Children from Toxic Coal Plant Pollution
Scott Pruitt is failing our children -- on purpose.
Mid-Session Defense Update
We are halfway through the Minnesota 2018 legislative session and it’s been made clear that some of our lawmakers are not willing to put our environment and public health first. They are placing policies that ignore science and weaken protections for our land, air, and water before people.
Even after 10 years of working with the Minnesota Legislature, I shouldn’t be surprised when I see legislators putting special interests and corporate profits first – and yet, I am. The only chance we have is to continue to have a strong voice at the capitol and many strong voices out in the districts to
Scott Pruitt’s Latest Attack on Environmental Justice
Help us make sure that Scott Pruitt doesn’t increase the burden that communities of color face. Help us stop the rollback on coal ash protections.
Garbage Patch Kids: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
If you have read the news recently, you have probably seen an article or two about a recent study of the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”. The articles report estimates of plastic pollution in the trillions, and swaths of plastic waste that are the size of countries.
Those numbers might make it feel like the issue is too massive to solve. You may be asking yourself, “how do we do something about a problem that is thousands of miles away?”
So, how can we wrap our heads around this issue and put it into context? Technically, no country owns these waters since it is in the middle of the Pacific
A Toxic Relationship: Hospital Waste and Environmental Health
The last thing that I think of after I get a shot is “where does the syringe end up after (hopefully) being properly disposed of in the biohazard bins?” But it’s a question I’ve been harboring recently; does it just disappear or does it end up on the streets? This topic is briefly brushed upon during my Master’s of Public Health (MPH) program, but I wanted to dig into the topic a bit further. The biohazard management in hospitals has advanced in the last 20-30 years so one shouldn’t be too alarmed when reading through this. The ultimate purpose is to make people aware of such waste, and know