UCSF Center to End Corporate Harm

How the Trump Administration’s Embrace of Oil, Gas, and Chemical Industry Interests Will Endanger Children’s Health The Trump administration’s actions to eliminate lifesaving environmental protections would allow corporate polluters to emit more toxins and chemicals, exposing more than 2 million kids to pollutants ...

When polluting industries capture regulatory agencies, people pay with their health. We must remove financial conflicts of interest from policy actions.

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MAHA has reshaped health policy. Now it's working on environmental rules MAHA activists who want to hold corporations accountable for harming Americans’ health have found an unlikely ally in a Republican-led Environmental Protection Agency that has traditionally supported ...

“They were very polite in the meeting. In terms of the tone, there was a lot of receptivity. However, in terms of what was said, it felt like we were interacting with a lot of industry talking points.” - Alexandra Muñoz

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The Pollution Playbook: How Industry Blocks Regulation of Toxic Chemicals - Center for International Environmental Law Discover how chemical, plastics, fossil fuel, and pesticide industries manipulate science, lobby regulators, and delay toxic chemical regulation.

Want to learn how "how industry actors manipulate science, lobby policymakers, and undermine democratic decision-making to maintain profits at the expense of human and environmental health"? Check out CIEL's new report.

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Republicans and Democrats agree EPA’s new chemical reviews are too slow But at a hearing on potential changes to the Toxic Substances Control Act, they disagreed on how to speed the process

See this messaging about new chemical reviews being too slow? That is industry messaging. As Dr. Woodruff testified, the majority of delays are because industry hasn't provided data or signed paperwork.

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From opioids and tobacco to PFAS and ultra processed foods, internal industry documents show how health-harming corporations lie about their products to increase their profits.

To improve health, we need to remove industry influence from the regulatory process.

EPA Wins Exxon Peace Prize After Deleting 'Fossil Fuels' From Climate Change Webpages Actual science still found on some pages. Don't tell!

This is brilliant.

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Excellent reporting from Heated and a classic example of conflict of interest.

Our scientists would be happy to sit down with these chefs and share how #PFAS contaminates water and impacts health.

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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"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.

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

Have you received a letter from "Dr. B.S."?

One scientist decided to investigate and what he found may shed light on another form of corporate influence.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

Ultra-processed food is global health threat, experts warn It is increasing our risk of a range of chronic diseases, including obesity and depression, a major review says.

Did you know that the Tobacco Industry was behind much of the creation of ultra-processed food?

Researchers are now sounding the alarm that ultra-processed food needs warning labels.

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Chemical giant, climate skeptics vie for seats on EPA science panel The Science Advisory Board could influence the Trump administration's plans to revisit a host of regulations.

They are removing scientists from scientific advisory panels and polluting industries are jockeying for the positions. If you want to make America healthy, remove corporate interference from the regulatory process.

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The Cultural and Political Moment for Toxins Research A longstanding push for urgent action on environmental toxins is landing in an unprecedented time in American politics.

Scientists and health advocates are trying to address the children's health crisis despite an EPA and administration captured by industry and corporate interests. But transparency and public support can make powerful allies.

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Senate Subcommittee Will Hold Hearing on “Examining the Beneficial Use and Regulation of Chemicals” | JD Supra On October 23, 2025, the Environment and Public Works Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight Subcommittee...

BREAKING: Senate hearing on impacts of chemical regulation Thursday. Note that two of the three witnesses are from industry. At least one witness will testify on behalf of science and health.

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US Senate poised to approve industry lobbyist to lead chemical safety at EPA If Douglas Troutman is confirmed, the top four toxics office at the environmental agency will be held by ex-lobbyists

If you want to keep people safe from harmful chemicals, one good step would be to stop the revolving door between the chemical industry and EPA.

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Art + Science No. 5: Big Oil, Regulations, Global Warming, a Calculated Stitch
with Ruth Tabancay
via Zoom on Sunday, September 21, 4:00 to 5:30 PM PST
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Fossil fuels harm health from 'cradle to grave': Report The extraction, transportation and burning of planet-heating fossil fuels have a huge impact on people's health that starts before they are born and lasts until they die, a report warned Tuesday.

"Just as governments once curbed tobacco industry influence, they must now ban fossil fuel lobbying and disinformation," Miller said.

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Pesticide politics: Inside the corporate push to limit liability - Investigate Midwest Unyielding is a University of Missouri School of Journalism project for Investigate Midwest. With billions of dollars at stake, Bayer has gone on the offensive. Billboards along major highways. A soci...

"The battle over Roundup and glyphosate, the controversial chemical it contains, is a case study in how regulation, politics and big business are intertwined in the agricultural industry."

MAHA Commission Succumbs to Pesticide Industry Pressure Center for Biological Diversity: Draft Report Walks Back Administration’s Promises of Bold Action on Pesticides

Last week the plastics industry stopped the global plastics treaty and now it appears the pesticide industry is succeeding at keeping regulations at bay. We can make America healthy by removing polluter conflict of interest in the regulatory process.

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Study of GLP-1 guidelines for teens points to potential for influence from drugmakers More than one-third of people who helped develop the 2023 guidelines for treating children with obesity had undisclosed financial ties to obesity drugmakers, a paper finds.

Medical advice should be free of financial conflicts of interest, especially when it comes to children. Important study from @drlauraschmidt.bsky.social

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Scientists urge plastics treaty negotiators to prioritize health Plastics are made of more than 16,000 chemicals, mostly derived from oil and gas. Over 4,200 are known to be hazardous, while the toxicity of the majority of the remaining is unknown. – “Negotiating t...

There is no safe way to recycle plastics that contain thousands of toxic chemicals. Plastics treaty negotiators need to push back on industry's false narrative that we can "recycle" our way out of the plastics crisis.

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Trump Administration, Reversing Itself, Won’t Rewrite a Ban on Asbestos

BREAKING: Trump's EPA appears to be backing down on repealing asbestos ban.

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E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump

Silencing critics is part of the polluter playbook.

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Plastics industry pushed ‘advanced recycling’ despite knowing problems – report Producers promoted chemical recycling – processes used to break plastics into constituent molecules – but knew of limitations

"Another problem the industry does not frequently address publicly: the pollution caused by advanced recycling. Though 'the plastics industry positions advanced recycling as an environmentally friendly solution for plastic waste', the report says, processes emit toxic and planet-warming pollutants."

Fossil fuels are an insurance disaster What do heatwaves, mold, and plastics have in common?

"But there’s no tackling climate change and plastic pollution without addressing the underlying cause — fossil fuels."

The Trump Environmental Protection Agency is telling staff to stop policing the oil and gas industry | CNN Politics The Environmental Protection Agency has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest– a region plagued by a legacy of pollution– to stop enforcing violations against the fossil fuel comp...

What happens when polluters are given free rein.

Research cuts conflict with MAHA's stated goals Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling for efforts to limit Americans' exposure to toxic substances. But the Trump administration is also taking actions that run counter to this goal.

They say they want to make America healthy, but what they are doing will make people sicker. It is vital to restore research funding and scientists need to be able to work without political or corporate interference.

One week from today! Learn about the corporate secrets in the UCSF Industry Documents Library and how you can use the library in your research.

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Dr. Woodruff testifies on threats to ORD and IRIS at Congressional shadow hearing At a shadow hearing held by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which conducts oversight of EPA, Dr. Tracey Woodruff testified that while most people have never heard of EPA’s Office of...

EPA science that forces polluting industries to be responsible is under attack. Dr. Woodruff testified on why EPA science is critical to health and disease prevention. @epw.senate.gov

Want to learn how we can hold health harming corporations to account? Join us 12pm PT, Thursday May 29 to hear about the work of the @UCSF Center to End Corporate Harm