
The Guardian - 5 hours 8 min ago
Suit says administration is impinging on rights to life and liberty by worsening planet-warming and toxic pollution Eighteen American youth are demanding that a court immediately halt the Trump administration's repeal of the scientific finding underpinning virtually all US climate regulations. The plaintiffs sued the Trump administration in February days after officials revoked the 2009 endangerment finding , which found that greenhouse gas pollution threatens public health and welfare. Filed...

The Hill - 6 hours 52 min ago
When people inside your own administration are walking away over a policy, that tells you this isn't just routine disagreement. This is a major fight over what public health is supposed to mean.

The Guardian - 7 hours 20 min ago
Conflict and aid cuts are hampering the fight against an outbreak of the deadly virus centred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo has faced the deadly threat of Ebola 16 times since the virus was discovered there in 1976, with a 2018-20 outbreak killing almost 2,300 people. On Sunday, the World Health Organization declared the 17th outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern . So far, 139 suspected deaths and almost 600 suspected cases...

The Guardian - 8 hours 12 min ago
Exclusive: Ashley Dalton says rejected amendments could have made bill stronger but it became a pretty dangerous set of affairs' A former public health minister facing terminal cancer has urged MPs not to bring back the assisted dying bill in England and Wales. The Labour MP Ashley Dalton revealed she would be on lifelong treatment for metastatic breast cancer, which has spread throughout her body but said her parliamentary colleagues should not revive the bill, which would legalise an assisted...

The Conversation - 12 hours 46 min ago
The move reshapes how future assessments of chemical dangers will be carried out, and if they'll be ignored, delayed or understated to benefit industry.

Mother Jones - 15 hours 11 min ago
When Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, went looking for government agencies to axe last year, one of its first targets was the US Agency for International Development. Established during the Cold War to counter Soviet influence, USAID spent billions of dollars on food aid, public health, and emergency relief for some of […]...