Dr. Geoff Gallop notes that legalizing drugs for personal use leads to better health outcomes, citing evidence from Portugal's approach which contrasts with current fears of arrest hindering addiction recovery.
"It is a true environmental success story when an old industrial toxic site filled with legacy contamination is properly remediated and turned into a community asset," Adrienne Esposito, the executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said. "This is what happens when government and stakeholders work together to advance the critical goal of environmental and public health protection."
Legalizing marijuana has created a huge new revenue stream for the state - over $920 million according to the Marijuana Policy Project. And I think that's great. But in my eyes, that revenue has come at a great cost to public health.
"We are continuing to identify non-compliant products on the Irish market. These six most recent alerts are for products labelled as containing 'no nicotine', but following laboratory analysis by the State Laboratory we found that they have concentrations as high as 30.0 mg/ml."
The map created by scientists at Columbia University displayed alarming hotspots for arsenic contamination, significantly exceeding the World Health Organization's guideline, with levels posing serious health risks.
Big Tobacco continues obstructing progress by hijacking health narratives - notably through its calculated vaping shift in recent years. Despite its rhetoric on smokeless products, new data reported reveals that the tobacco industry remains firmly dependent on cigarette sales, which accounted for roughly three-quarters of Western tobacco giants' revenue in 2024. Moreover, Big Tobacco stocks are soaring, fueled by rising prices and continued global demand. Make no mistake - the tobacco industry has not used vaping as a tool for change, but as a hedge against decline.
Aqua Surf School is seeing a 20% to 30% decrease in attendance due to concerns about potential pollutants from the recent Palisades fire, according to its executive director, Dylan Sohngen.
Despite significant investments in upgrading treatment plants, large areas of the country's drinking water supply still face risks of contamination, affecting nearly half a million people.
Letting your kids outside to do and go wherever they please as long as they're home by dinner really showcased trust in children. Today, that freedom seems unimaginable due to concerns over safety.
"The Trump Administration has upended longstanding privacy protections with its decision to illegally share sensitive, personal health data with ICE," said California Attorney General Rob Bonta in a statement announcing the lawsuit.
Moderna's new mRNA-based flu vaccine, mRNA-1010, demonstrated a 27 percent higher efficacy rate in preventing influenza infections compared to the standard flu shot in a trial with nearly 41,000 participants aged 50 and older.
The rapid development and tourism in Florida have prompted the establishment of special districts for mosquito control, which have greater funding and expertise compared to county-run programs.
Growing up in Chicago, Chakena D. Perry knew not to trust the water coming out of her tap. It was just one of these unspoken truths within households like mine - low-income, Black households - that there was some sort of distrust with the water.