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Center to End Corporate Harm

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We have a vision of a just, healthy, and democratic society where public health policies are built on unbiased science, free of industry influence.

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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you think alcohol is good for you, that's probably industry-conflicted science talking. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The U.S. has adopted the plastic industry's positions on plastic pollution. This is bad for everyone - except the polluting plastic industry. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Leaked memo shows how U.S. aims to weaken global limits on plastic pollution
A memo reviewed by The Washington Post, circulated by U.S. diplomats, comes as negotiations over a plastics treaty reach a critical point.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Just as with climate breakdown and smoking, the science on harm caused by foods high in fat, salt and sugar is now settled, but the industry continues to deny and distract to delay action." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why are ultra-processed food firms panicking and suing? Because they know time is running out | Felicity Lawrence
As the harm caused by their products becomes more evident, manufacturers are resorting to denial and lawsuits to keep regulation at bay, says former Guardian special correspondent Felicity Lawrence
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Investigation from Floodlight found polluters are keeping air monitors far away from their emissions, leaving exposed neighborhoods in the dark. 👉 10 of Louisiana’s heaviest air-polluting facilities operate without a single public air monitor within five miles. lailluminator.com/2026/07/20/a...
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Louisiana communities are left in the dark on toxic air — and industry helped keep it that way • Louisiana Illuminator
A Floodlight analysis found that Louisiana’s public air monitors are often located miles from major industrial polluters and fail to test for some of the most dangerous chemicals.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump's EPA is remaking scientific advisory boards by stacking them with industry representatives. Eight of 11 new members have industry conflicts of interest. That's good for industry. Bad for your health. thetoxicfiles.substack.com/p/trumps-epa...
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Trump’s EPA is stacking the SACC with industry reps
EPA’s Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals is vital to shaping Agency decisions on chemical risks
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What do you think happens when you stack EPA's chemical advisory panel with chemical industry scientists? They will downplay the health risks of toxic chemicals and people will get sick. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: EPA stacks chemical advisory panel with industry, for-hire scientists
Toxicologists from Tesla, Lyondell Chemical and a notorious figure from Trump's first term are among EPA's newest expert chemical advisers.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What do you think happens if you stack an EPA chemical advisory panel with chemical industry scientists? They will downplay the health risks of toxic chemicals. Classic example of corporate capture. And this will expose people to more toxics. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: EPA stacks chemical advisory panel with industry, for-hire scientists
Toxicologists from Tesla, Lyondell Chemical and a notorious figure from Trump's first term are among EPA's newest expert chemical advisers.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This story from a few years ago highlights the problem of the rotating door between industry and regulators. Enacting financial conflicts of interest would go a long way to reduce this problem. revealnews.org/article-lega...
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California’s pesticide chiefs: Where are they now? - Reveal
When the state’s top pesticide regulators step down, their influence over important public health and environmental issues continues. From overseeing water issues to representing a chemical giant, her...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“They are mouthpieces for the chemical industry, or consulting firms bought and paid for by the chemical companies,” Olson said. #EPA #conflictofinterest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump officials accused of stacking top chemical safety board with industry ‘mouthpieces’
Public health advocates warn of conflicts of interests and say panel likely to provide justification for key rollbacks
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New York is trying to hold #PFAS manufacturers accountable for the contamination they have caused. www.news10.com/capitol/pfas...
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Did household cleaning products poison your drinking water?
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against five chemical companies, including 3M and DuPont, for allegedly polluting the state with toxic chemicals in everyday household it…
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“The evidence on the health harms of ultra-processed food is unequivocal, ... processed junk food has been reformulated to promote over consumption and patterns of intake similar to those observed in nicotine dependence,” wrote Chartres www.thenewlede.org/2026/06/rese...
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Researchers call for urgent new policies to rein in ultra-processed foods
Wide consumption of ultra-processed foods is the product of a corporate playbook drawn up by “Big Tobacco” decades ago that is contributing to a rising tide of health problems, according to a series o...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Have you noticed the trend? Reporters who cover climate and the environment are being cut and @yalee360.bsky.social says climate coverage has dropped every year over the last 4 years. What's up? Corporate influence. Great piece from @thenewlede.bsky.social www.thenewlede.org/2026/06/this...
thenewlede.org
This is the wrong time for major media to shut down environmental coverage
While media outlets cut environmental reporters, the impact of these losses on news coverage is real.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
NEW STUDY: Pregnant women are exposed to dozens of harmful chemicals every day, and they are having an impact on children's health. Meanwhile, the chemical industry is trying to gut America's chemical safety law, which would make things worse. #TSCA www.thenewlede.org/2026/06/comm...
thenewlede.org
Study connects common chemicals to preterm births, other health risks
A large study of chemical exposures during pregnancy has found that pregnant women are exposed to dozens of chemicals everyday, many of which are linked to preterm births and low birth weights. The ch...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Our new website is live! Check it out. Follow us here and on LinkedIn for the latest research and news on health-harming corporations. c2ech.stanford.edu
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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STATEMENT | IG Report Finds EPA New Chemical Review Process Badly Broken
EPA has not complied with applicable record keeping and quality assurance requirements when implementing its New Chemicals Program
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
EPA needs to stop working for polluting industries. www.cnn.com/2026/06/08/p...
cnn.com
Exclusive: EPA scientists say they are being pushed to downplay potential risks of household products | CNN Politics
Inside the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, scientists say they’re under pressure to alter safety reviews of chemicals commonly found in consumer products like household cleaner...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Great coverage of latest research on ultra-processed food in the AJPH journal edited by our own @nickchartres.bsky.social #thenewtobacco #UPF www.bbc.com/news/article...
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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.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"90% of highly addictive foods are ultra processed." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai4O...
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Big Food’s Tobacco Moment: Evidence on the Harms of Ultra-Processed Food
YouTube video by American Public Health Association
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Watch LIVE. Scientists affiliated with the Center presenting tobacco's role in the development of ultra processed foods at a briefing in Washington DC today hosted by @apha.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai4O...
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Big Food’s Tobacco Moment: Evidence on the Harms of Ultra-Processed Food
YouTube video by American Public Health Association
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"The primary cause of disease used to be a living organism that transmits a pathogen like malaria from one person to another,” said Tracey Woodruff, a Stanford Univ researcher. “Now we have corporate organisms that lead to chronic, non-communicable diseases.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/31/p...
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As plastics clog the Great Lakes, industry presses to make more and downplays dangers, Tribune analysis finds
More than 8 billion tons of plastic waste clog the planet. If stacked within Chicago’s Millennium Park, plastic dumped into the environment since the middle of the last century would rise beyond the e...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The chemical industry has its hands all over this. www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/h...
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Restrictions on ‘forever’ toxins in drinking water changed by Trump EPA | CNN
Key Biden-era regulations designed to protect the nation’s drinking water from the most dangerous cancer-causing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, were removed by the Trump administration M...
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 18/05/2026
Big Oil executives knew decades ago that "catastrophic" climate change was coming. Instead of sharing that knowledge, they buried it. "By the time the global warming becomes detectable it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even to stabilise the situation."
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In 1998, Shell Predicted It Would Be Sued Over Climate Crisis Someday
A new batch of documents shows the oil giant had grasped the dangers of burning fossil fuels by the 1980s.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We're very excited for this event featuring @nickchartres.bsky.social and other experts on how ultra processed foods harm health.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"Most global deaths are now caused by noncommunicable diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes. In many cases, these diseases are caused by industrial pollution or well-known consumer goods." #healthharmingcorporations #tobaccokills www.theexamination.org/articles/dea...
theexamination.org
We figured out the deadliest company in the world. You’ve probably never heard of it.
China Tobacco’s products have likely caused at least 57 million deaths since 1990. No other company comes close, our analysis shows.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"Dismantling the #research arm will significantly damage the agency and weaken the government’s ability to protect public health, according to more than two dozen current and former #EPA officials interviewed for this article." #ORD www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...
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How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
It is important to keep in mind that when environmental and health safeguards are eliminated or rolled back, it is because polluting industries have outsized influence on the political process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns
American Lung Association report comes amid Trump EPA’s expansive rollback of environmental protections
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 06/04/2026
Utah just "made it nearly impossible for residents to hold fossil fuel companies legally accountable for climate damages." Four other red states are now considering similar laws. This is part of a push from Big Oil and its political allies to secure federal legal immunity—and it must be stopped.
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‘A surrender to special interests’: alarm as Utah shields fossil-fuel companies
New legislation comes amid push from big oil, as critics warn polluters’ profits prioritized over Americans’ health
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Another example of corporations making claims that just don't add up. If it's a plastic cup, odds are it's not getting recycled, no matter what they say. grist.org/regulation/w...
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Your 'widely recyclable' Starbucks cup is still trash
A new label promises single-use cups are recyclable. But that doesn't mean they actually get recycled.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Thank you @arielwittenberg.bsky.social for this excellent story on the Center's paper on how health-harming corporations are manipulating science, public opinion, and avoiding regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/pap...
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Paper tells how industries ‘shape the narrative’ on health threats
The study details how chemical and fossil fuel companies have followed the tobacco industry's playbook to skirt regulations.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"To meaningfully address #glyphosate and other pesticide exposures, reforms are needed to remove financial conflicts of interest from the scientific process and peer review, and public funding for research must be increased” - Tracey J Woodruff deohs.washington.edu/news/sgs
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Global scientists say regulators must address glyphosate’s strong links to health harms
Epidemiologists, toxicologists, cancer specialists meet in Seattle to review latest science tying widely used pesticide to disease, including cancer
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Want to learn what's in our new paper in the @nejm.org in under 30 seconds? Check out our infographic which highlights how the fossil fuel, chemical, and ultra processed food industries are harming health and how corporations hide the truth about the harms of their products.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Very excited to announce our paper on corporate vectors of chronic disease - and what can be done about it - published in NEJM! Congrats to all our authors including @nickchartres.bsky.social @feralyogi.bsky.social @drlauraschmidt.bsky.social @traceywoodruff.bsky.social DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms2507028
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Ultra-processed foods are harming people's health. What many people don't know is the tobacco industry's role in creating the addictive flavors behind ultra-processed items. www.everydayhealth.com/pregnancy/ul...
everydayhealth.com
Ultra-Processed Foods May Harm Fertility
A new study links ultra-processed foods to lower male fertility and reduced embryo growth. Here’s what may be driving these.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
PFAS manufacturers hid the harms of their product for decades and we're seeing more and more communities have to grapple with this toxic contamination. One solution? Remove industry influence from regulatory processes. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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In Our Blood: The Forever Chemicals Scandal review – no one should have to live like this
This upsetting documentary goes to the town with the most terrifyingly high levels of Pfas in the UK, tests the locals and finds that nothing has been done to help them – and now it’s simply too late
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
EPA needs to remove influence of health-harming industries and get back to protecting people's health. earthjustice.org/press/2026/e...
earthjustice.org
EPA Yields to Industry in Air Pollution Rule for Chemical Manufacturing Plants
The final rule leaves communities around these facilities vulnerable to dangerous, cancer-causing air pollutants
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"The JAMA study found that by 2023, a child in the US was 15 to 20% more likely to develop a chronic condition than they were in 2011—including neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, behavioral problems, developmental delays, and ADHD." www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
americanprogress.org
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 ...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Whenever you read headlines like this, keep in mind these decisions to loosen pollution rules are because chemical and polluting industries have captured EPA. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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EPA proposes weaker pollution limits for chemical used to sterilize medical devices
Ethylene oxide plays a crucial role in sterilizing lifesaving medical devices, including pacemakers and syringes, but long-term exposure can cause leukemia and other types of cancer among people who w...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"One of Bayer’s stated key strategies to try to end the litigation ... is getting the Supreme Court to agree ... that if EPA does not require a cancer warning on its glyphosate products, the company cannot be held liable for failing to warn of a cancer risk." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EPA chief met with Bayer CEO over supreme court fight, agency records show
Top US regulators met with Bill Anderson to discuss ‘supreme court action’ over glyphosate weed killer
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Outstanding investigative journalism by @propublica.org Follow the money. This is a classic example of why it is imperative to ban financial conflicts of interest among political appointees. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Exposing industry conflict of interest is essential to addressing the problem. We applaud these efforts. EPA should work on behalf of public health, not chemical industry CEOs. www.eenews.net/articles/jef...
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Merkley probes ‘chemical industry insiders’ at EPA
The Oregon Democratic senator wants answers on the “great hypocrisy" between industry influence and anti-corporate MAHA goals.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is good news. Two points we want to highlight from the article: 1. A lawsuit was a driver in this decision and 2. Nathan Donley says generic manufacturers may continue to sell this toxic pesticide, so a ban is important. www.thenewlede.org/2026/03/syng...
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Syngenta says it will stop making paraquat - a pesticide linked to Parkinson's disease
Syngenta, maker of a controversial pesticide linked to Parkinson’s disease, said on Tuesday that it will stop making its paraquat weed killer by the end of June.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Are you watching today's Senate EPW Committee hearing on the draft bill to gut America's chemical safety law? Industry influence is alive and well.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The chemical lobby wants to gut America's chemical safety law, but fortunately scientists and health advocates are pushing back. And an overwhelming majority of Americans are on the side of science and health, according to a recent Pew Foundation survey. www.thenewlede.org/2026/02/heal...
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Health advocates clash with chemical industry as Congress proposes TSCA changes
Scientists and health advocates say proposed changes to a key US chemicals safety law would upend protections for children and other vulnerable populations suffering from toxic exposures, while indust...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
What happens when the chemical industry is in charge at EPA. People's health gets sacrificed for industry interests. www.thenewlede.org/2026/02/epa-...
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EPA official touts controversial TSCA reforms
A top US regulatory official on Monday championed controversial chemical review reforms that critics say will support industry interests while weakening protections against toxic chemicals for the pub...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
When polluting industries capture regulatory agencies, people pay with their health. We must remove financial conflicts of interest from policy actions. www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
americanprogress.org
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 ...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“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 abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
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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 ...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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. www.ciel.org/reports/scie...
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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.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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. cen.acs.org/policy/legis...
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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
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This is brilliant. www.wonkette.com/p/epa-wins-e...
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EPA Wins Exxon Peace Prize After Deleting 'Fossil Fuels' From Climate Change Webpages
Actual science still found on some pages. Don't tell!
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