alt Environmental Health
@alt-enviro-health.bsky.social
Speaking up for environmental health specialists and the communities we serve. NCEH, NIEHS, ATSDR, with a sprinkle of NIOSH. Climate change is real. Environmental justice is not "woke". Gun safety NOW!
Pinned
I'm rebranding! The reorg to AHA will take years, so I'll focus on the subjects & fellow nerds I know best in environmental health, toxicology, EJ, occupational medicine & such. Dunno if I'm going to verify, but please share with me your news & views related to NCEH, NIEHS, ATSDR, & NIOSH 😘
toxicologist approved joke
What’s the opposite of formaldehyde?
casualdejekyll
casualdejekyll
December 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
toxicologist approved joke
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harming immigrants' reproductive health is a feature not a bug
For months, I've been talking to providers and researchers across the country to understand how the Trump administration's immigration policies are impacting reproductive health. The story is out today in @rewirenewsgroup.com. I hope you'll give it a read:
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...
Pregnant Immigrants and Their Babies May Suffer Complications from Chronic Stress of ICE Raids, Experts Warn
At least two doctors say they're already seeing warning signs in patients, including high blood pressure and deteriorating mental health.
rewirenewsgroup.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
harming immigrants' reproductive health is a feature not a bug
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Fact check: true!
There’s no such thing as clean coal.
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Fact check: true!
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Good morning ppl! It’s Federal Fuckery Friday! Lowly’s human car has postponed a planed announcement about moving the US to the Danish vaccine schedule (cuz it’s so fucking not great) and it’s EPSTINE FILE DAY!
a man with a beard says " i need those files " with his mouth open
Alt: a man with a beard says " i need those files " with his mouth open
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Good morning ppl! It’s Federal Fuckery Friday! Lowly’s human car has postponed a planed announcement about moving the US to the Danish vaccine schedule (cuz it’s so fucking not great) and it’s EPSTINE FILE DAY!
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Maybe read the article
A '17 study followed Latina women’s newborns in Iowa after a '08 immigration raid at a meat-processing plant - they had 24% higher risk of being born with a low birth weight than those born a year earlier.
White mothers’ infants did not see a similar increase
A '17 study followed Latina women’s newborns in Iowa after a '08 immigration raid at a meat-processing plant - they had 24% higher risk of being born with a low birth weight than those born a year earlier.
White mothers’ infants did not see a similar increase
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Maybe read the article
A '17 study followed Latina women’s newborns in Iowa after a '08 immigration raid at a meat-processing plant - they had 24% higher risk of being born with a low birth weight than those born a year earlier.
White mothers’ infants did not see a similar increase
A '17 study followed Latina women’s newborns in Iowa after a '08 immigration raid at a meat-processing plant - they had 24% higher risk of being born with a low birth weight than those born a year earlier.
White mothers’ infants did not see a similar increase
Fact check: true!
There’s no such thing as clean coal.
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Fact check: true!
harming immigrants' reproductive health is a feature not a bug
For months, I've been talking to providers and researchers across the country to understand how the Trump administration's immigration policies are impacting reproductive health. The story is out today in @rewirenewsgroup.com. I hope you'll give it a read:
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...
Pregnant Immigrants and Their Babies May Suffer Complications from Chronic Stress of ICE Raids, Experts Warn
At least two doctors say they're already seeing warning signs in patients, including high blood pressure and deteriorating mental health.
rewirenewsgroup.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
harming immigrants' reproductive health is a feature not a bug
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
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Get👏 him👏
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Get👏 him👏
Get👏 him👏
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Get👏 him👏
noice!
BREAKING: Democrats have flipped a conservative state House seat in Georgia in yet another upset.
It's a 14-point overperformance *and* the 25th legislative flip of the year for Dems. Republicans? Zero.
Read our complete writeup here -->
It's a 14-point overperformance *and* the 25th legislative flip of the year for Dems. Republicans? Zero.
Read our complete writeup here -->
Breaking: Georgia Democrats flip conservative seat in yet another upset
That's 25 pickups for Democrats nationwide this year—and zero for Republicans
www.the-downballot.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
noice!
Yes. Winter came. And then it was summer again. And then winter came again. Just because we have seasons doesn't mean climate change is not happening! 💚
Trump: "Remember -- global warming! And then the temperature started going down like a rock. Remember? Remember?"
December 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Yes. Winter came. And then it was summer again. And then winter came again. Just because we have seasons doesn't mean climate change is not happening! 💚
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mind your business weirdo
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
mind your business weirdo
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climate change is real
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
climate change is real
mind your business weirdo
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
mind your business weirdo
The least surprising news of the day
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The least surprising news of the day
climate change is real
Politicians and TV hosts can deny climate change all they want but insurance companies know it's real
December 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
climate change is real
climate change is real
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
climate change is real
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How high does someone have to be to read a book by Cheryl Hines
He must be reading a part where Cheryl said he is a faithful and devoted husband.
December 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
How high does someone have to be to read a book by Cheryl Hines
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Dismantling a long standing public health rule, without any scientific rationale. Playing with people’s lives for pure vindictive politics. A new low for the USA. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
In major attack on public health, CDC recommends delaying Hepatitis B vaccine at birth
What is being implemented under the guise of “health freedom” is, in fact, the demolition of the very institutions and structures that have protected millions from infectious disease.
www.wsws.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Dismantling a long standing public health rule, without any scientific rationale. Playing with people’s lives for pure vindictive politics. A new low for the USA. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Petty bigots. The bullies from 7th grade. That's who's running this country.
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Petty bigots. The bullies from 7th grade. That's who's running this country.
love this journey for her
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
love this journey for her
*crying*
#giftlink
RFK Jr.’s relentless quest to make sure more kids don’t survive to see adulthood.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
RFK Jr.’s relentless quest to make sure more kids don’t survive to see adulthood.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
*crying*
One of many hack "journalists" who helped get us in this mess
Reading Helen Lewis's review of Nuzzi's bathetic book it struck me: the true scandal ain't that she slept w. RFK Jr. or pretended to be a journalist while being a political actor & all that.
It's all the other political reporters who told us that Nuzzi was a superlative practitioner of their craft.
It's all the other political reporters who told us that Nuzzi was a superlative practitioner of their craft.
Olivia Nuzzi’s Tell-Nothing Memoir
Can “American Canto” turn scandal into literature?
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
One of many hack "journalists" who helped get us in this mess
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Man fck her and her tears, she did her part propping up the patriarchy, white supremacy and the mediocre men who ascend to ruin lives under the cover of it. She can be scrutinized and held accountable.
December 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Man fck her and her tears, she did her part propping up the patriarchy, white supremacy and the mediocre men who ascend to ruin lives under the cover of it. She can be scrutinized and held accountable.