By Chelsea Conaboy on May 22, 2018
About 4.6 million children in the United States live in homes where guns are kept unlocked and loaded, as more people come to believe – despite scientific evidence to the contrary – that a home with a gun is a safer home, according to a new analysis …
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By Chelsea Conaboy on May 15, 2018
Drugmakers, investors buoyed by Trump speech: Even as President Trump, during a much anticipated speech, promised to “derail the gravy train” in health care, Big Pharma stock prices were rising. Carolyn Y. Johnson of The Washington Post writes that Trump’s 44-page blueprint, dubbed “American Patients First,” was long on policy ideas and light on how to…
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By Chelsea Conaboy on May 8, 2018
Going green or going for guzzlers?: How can a car company named one of the best “green” brands in the world announce two years later that it will cease sales of its most efficient vehicles, instead favoring SUVs? Jamie Lincoln Kitman of Automobile Magazine explains in an enlightening op-ed in The New York Times. Ford Motor…
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By Chelsea Conaboy on May 1, 2018
EPA on the brink of ‘regulatory capture’?: By avoiding input from career employees, promoting the views of industry leaders and proposing aggressive cuts to the agency’s budget and staff, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has dramatically changed the agency, researchers with the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative have found. The EPA appears headed toward “regulatory…
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By Chelsea Conaboy on April 24, 2018
Frack to school: What did executives of energy company Extraction Oil and Gas do when parents protested a plan to build oil and gas wells near their public school in Greeley, Colorado? They found a site near another school, this time one attended by primarily by low-income, minority students, writes Megan Jula of Mother Jones. “We think…
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By Chelsea Conaboy on April 17, 2018
That daily cocktail or glass of wine – friend or foe?: When she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 47, Stephanie Mencimer asked herself a question many patients face: “Why me?” “It’s an impossible question to answer definitively for an individual, like trying to prove that a single weather event was caused by climate…
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By Chelsea Conaboy on April 10, 2018
Shell researchers called for climate action – in 1988: Researchers working for Royal Dutch Shell in the 1980s knew that the world could be dramatically altered by global warming and urged the oil giant to take action even as the company publicly emphasized the uncertainty of climate science and warned against the risk of aggressive…
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By Chelsea Conaboy on April 4, 2018
What did Big Wireless know?: Using the same tactics deployed earlier by Big Tobacco and Big Oil, the wireless industry has invested “untold millions” convincing people that the cellphone in their pocket is safe — despite being told nearly two decades ago by an industry-funded epidemiologist that the potential for harm was clear, an investigation by…
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By Chelsea Conaboy on March 28, 2018
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Like some creature in a sci-fi film, the huge gob of plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is growing over a massive stretch of ocean between California and Hawaii where ocean currents deposit debris. According to findings published in the journal Scientific Reports, the size of the patch…
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By Chelsea Conaboy on March 21, 2018
Unhooking smokers: The Food and Drug Administration last week took a first step toward requiring manufacturers to dramatically lower the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to a “minimally or non-addictive level,” drawing praise from public health advocates. Studies have found that, in addition to preventing people from becoming addicted, low-nicotine cigarettes would lead to more attempts to…
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How to Stop Drug Price Gouging
By on April 24, 2017
One of Donald Trump’s few universally welcomed campaign promises was to do something about the prices of pharmaceutical drugs. Most Americans recognize that prices are too high, and are bothered…
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