Dimitri Abrahamsson

Trump revokes EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health President Donald Trump has reversed a key Obama-era scientific ruling that underpins all federal actions on curbing planet-warming gases.

Yes 👏 Revoking science makes it go away. Everyone know that.
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Yes, increasing the speed of risk evaluations is known to produce better environmental and health outcomes. We should also do that for drugs. We should speed up the release of experimental drugs and cut all the clinical trials. What could possibly go wrong? 🙄

The chemical lobby is trying to weaken the law that protects people from toxic chemicals Toxic chemicals and pollutants are contributing to a rise in chronic disease including cancer, Parkinson’s, diabetes, heart disease, autism, and infertility. Yet, the chemical lobby is trying to rewrite the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the one law designed to protect people from harmful chemicals. If they are successful, it could result in significantly higher … Continue reading The chemical lobby is trying to weaken the law that protects people from toxic chemicals

If the chemical lobby gets its way, people will be exposed to a lot more harmful chemicals and more people will get sick and die.

https://prheucsf.blog/2026/01/21/the-chemical-lobby-is-trying-to-weaken-the-law-that-protects-people-from-toxic-chemicals/

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A scientist questioned new microplastics findings. Then other researchers fired back. A prominent scientist criticized microplastics research methods. Others are defending the work.

Scientists were frustrated by a piece in the Guardian earlier this week that seemed to call into question the science on microplastics in the body.

I wrote about why researchers are certain microplastics are in the human body -- and what we still don't know:

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- Calling other people's work a "joke" is not part of the scientific discourse. This is reality TV.
- There are more experiments that the scientists can do to dispel the doubts.
- The journal should encourage the scientists to share their samples with other labs to corroborate their findings.

All of these can be true at the same time:
- The high-profile study likely has some critical limitations.
- The current analytical instruments and methods are not sensitive enough.
- The Dow Chemicals scientist in the article has a substantial conflict of interest that was not acknowledged.

And then he said: "How are we going to fix the reproducibility crisis in science if we only publish novel findings?"

Chemicals in food system cause nearly $3 trillion in annual damage: Report Trillions are spent on the environmental and health impacts, such as treating diseases linked to certain chemicals and removing them from the water supply

Bisphenols, pesticides, phthalates, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) chemicals in the global food system are linked to a host of health problems. cen.acs.org/food/food-in... #chemsky 🧪

DESIGNATING FENTANYL AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

If the Trump administration understands the dangers of poisoning the public with fentanyl, then they must also understand the dangers of poisoning people with toxic chemicals. This type of logic cuts both ways.
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MAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back. A split is emerging within Trump’s base as health activists accuse Mr. Zeldin of leading the agency to prioritize chemical industry interests over public health.

You can't make America healthy if you weaken rules designed to protect people from toxic chemicals and pollution.

EPA needs to stop working for polluters and start protecting health.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/climate/maha-moms-epa-lee-zeldin.html

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Draft legislation is circulating in Congress right now that weakens the Toxic Substances Control Act. It's what the chemical lobby has spent millions of dollars trying to achieve - and if they get what they want, more people will be exposed to more harmful chemicals and more will get sick.

Corporate influence on science in a shifting political landscape Extensive empirical research demonstrates that financial conflicts of interest (study sponsorship and study authors with a financial conflict of interest from industries that have a stake in the...

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Corporate influence on science in a shifting political landscape

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San Francisco files 1st-of-its-kind lawsuit against largest ultraprocessed food manufacturers Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, General Mills, Kellogg, and Kraft Heinz are some of the 10 major corporations being sued by San Francisco, which is arguing they unfairly marketed ultraprocessed foods and products...

San Francisco is taking on ultra-processed food companies for "using deceptive marketing techniques to target children ... to consume their products while knowing that overconsumption of the foods could lead to poor health outcomes..." #ultraprocessedfood

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YouTube video by StarTalk How to Tell What’s Real Online

Objective truths are still out there. It’s just harder than ever to know what they look like.

What’s Up With That?

[StarTalk video: 15min]
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"This is what corporate capture looks like." - Dimitri Abrahamsson

EPA is supposed to protect people from toxic chemicals like D4, not give them a pass.

Day 1 12/02 - Peer Review of the Draft Risk Evaluation for Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) YouTube video by uvideoonline

At EPA’s D4 meeting today:
- Most reviewers industry affiliated
- Most EPA scientists in sync with industry
- EU, UK, Canada: “D4 very persistent and very bioaccumulatative”
- EPA: “maybe persistent but not bioaccumulative”
This is what corporate capture looks like
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Never forget.
What terrorism did.
Never forget.
Those who perished.
Those who ran towards danger to help.

I'm excited to share our new scientific adventure with Benny Chefetz, Evyatar Ben Mordechay, and Moshe Shenker to study the metabolism of pharmaceuticals in plants and humans. We’re grateful to BSF for their support and excited to deepen the collaboration between UCSF and HUJI through this research.

We thank the Reviewers for their helpful suggestions

Do corporations actually have more control over your health than you? From the food on supermarket shelves to the air we breathe, large companies exert a greater impact on our health than we might realise, argues health scientist Tracey Woodruff

👇My interview in @newscientist.com on how corporations' control your health - and what we can do about it.

Plus, I have weird blue hair in the illustration, so it is worth checking out just to see that.

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Statement on Make America Healthy Again Commission report Dr. Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, professor and director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and the Center to End Corporate Harm at UCSF issued the following statement upon release o...

"You can’t protect children from harmful chemicals while gutting EPA, cutting funding to NIEHS, and rolling back or eliminating environmental rules that protect people from toxic exposures." @traceywoodruff.bsky.social

Industry study sponsorship and conflicts of interest on the effect of unprocessed red meat on cardiovascular disease risk: a systematic review of clinical trials Experimental research on the link between unprocessed red meat and cardiovascular disease risk is inconsistent and may differ according to the financial interests of red meat industry sponsors.

Now we know that if a study is funded by the meat industry, it is 4 times more likely to conclude that red meat has positive or benign effects on cardiovascular disease risk. NIH should fund nutrition scientists so they can stop working for the food industry. ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...

"Eliminating the science will not make the harms go away." @traceywoodruff.bsky.social @epw.senate.gov

Toxic Priorities: How Trump’s EPA Puts Polluters Over People YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

Excellent speech by @traceywoodruff.bsky.social If the administration is serious about making America healthy they need to fund environmental research. It is science fiction to think that you can cut 55% of EPA’s budget and expect people’s health to improve.
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Our latest manuscript in Environmental Science & Technology is now available, where we detail the implementation of a #nontarget method to help identify novel candidate organic tracers that may help improve estimates of children's dust ingestion rates.

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The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:

1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.

It’s time more people understood this.

Dear Republicans,

Cutting science budgets has not historically been a Republican thing. For example, Lincoln created the National Academy of Sciences. Eisenhower's term increased the science budget 366%. Gerald Ford, +15%; George H. W. Bush, +30%; George W. Bush, +54%.

Just sayin’.

YouTube video by StarTalk Addressing the NASA Budget Cuts

Cutting the budget of NASA by 50% will not only have 0 impact on the federal budget, it will also put America in the back seat, while other countries are taking the wheel. The same applies to EPA and NOAA; all three agencies founded by Republican Presidents.
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