Bobbi Wilding
@bobbiwilding.bsky.social
Executive Director at @cleanhealthyny, Mom, partner, friend. Avid worker for thriving, healthy, just futures for all of us. Posts are my own.
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Under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, America's poorest families lose about $1600 per year.
The richest households gain about $12,000 per year.
It's Reverse Robin Hood. (Via CBO)
The richest households gain about $12,000 per year.
It's Reverse Robin Hood. (Via CBO)
June 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, America's poorest families lose about $1600 per year.
The richest households gain about $12,000 per year.
It's Reverse Robin Hood. (Via CBO)
The richest households gain about $12,000 per year.
It's Reverse Robin Hood. (Via CBO)
We need an investment in the NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation so it can develop modern regs to turn off the tap on toxics, especially given the huge challenge of #PFAS. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
Until then, we need product bans. In 2025 the Assembly again missed the mark. #nontoxicny
Until then, we need product bans. In 2025 the Assembly again missed the mark. #nontoxicny
NY Lawmakers play PFAS ‘Whac-a-Mole’
The Legislature tabled several bills that would have put piecemeal regulations on the toxic “forever chemicals.”
www.timesunion.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We need an investment in the NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation so it can develop modern regs to turn off the tap on toxics, especially given the huge challenge of #PFAS. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
Until then, we need product bans. In 2025 the Assembly again missed the mark. #nontoxicny
Until then, we need product bans. In 2025 the Assembly again missed the mark. #nontoxicny
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1/2 Huge public support & Senate passage,
@nyassemblymajority.bsky.social refused to bring floor votes (2nd yr) on all but 1 #PFAS ban bills. Another yr of needless exposure despite plethora of science/health harm & further gut punch to already exposed communities 🤬
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
@nyassemblymajority.bsky.social refused to bring floor votes (2nd yr) on all but 1 #PFAS ban bills. Another yr of needless exposure despite plethora of science/health harm & further gut punch to already exposed communities 🤬
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
Advocates Decry NYS Assembly Leadership Inaction to “Turn off the Tap” on Toxics to Protect New Yorkers’ Health
Senate passage of key bills left hanging, health care and cleanup costs hang over municipalities and residents.
www.nrdc.org
June 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If there is no birthright citizenship there are no citizens. If citizenship is required for the constitution to apply, the constitution has no meaning, and no one has rights. If you're not an immigrant, how are you a citizen except by birth in a country? WTH is the Supreme Court doing?!
June 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If there is no birthright citizenship there are no citizens. If citizenship is required for the constitution to apply, the constitution has no meaning, and no one has rights. If you're not an immigrant, how are you a citizen except by birth in a country? WTH is the Supreme Court doing?!
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A beautiful, devastating piece about a small Swedish town grappling with severe forever chemical contamination. It’s heartbreaking to watch variations of this story play out over and over. #PFAS www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination
The long read: When a small Swedish town discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of Pfas, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children’s future
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A beautiful, devastating piece about a small Swedish town grappling with severe forever chemical contamination. It’s heartbreaking to watch variations of this story play out over and over. #PFAS www.theguardian.com/environment/...
An alarming sign of this moment: political assassinations and use of police costume
“We’re here today because an unspeakable tragedy has unfolded in Minnesota. My good friend and colleague Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed earlier this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination,” Gov. Tim Walz said in a press conference.
Minnesota officials react to the fatal shooting of Rep. Melissa Hortman, targeted shooting of Sen. John Hoffman
Gov. Tim Walz said there were targeted shootings in both Brooklyn Park and Champlin on Saturday.
bit.ly
June 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
An alarming sign of this moment: political assassinations and use of police costume
1984 is the book of our time
June 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
1984 is the book of our time
A colleague asked me for this old gif. It seems apropos as the NYS legislature considers a bill on packaging that has restrictions on #toxics. I took the Ellen McArthur Fdn circular economy chart & showed that if you put toxics in... you get toxics out, over and over and over and over and over....
May 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A colleague asked me for this old gif. It seems apropos as the NYS legislature considers a bill on packaging that has restrictions on #toxics. I took the Ellen McArthur Fdn circular economy chart & showed that if you put toxics in... you get toxics out, over and over and over and over and over....
We just have a few weeks to go in the NYS legislative session - plenty of time for the @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social and @nysenate.bsky.social to pass bills that ban #pfas #foreverchemicals in common products most of us use daily. #pfasfreeny #nontoxicny
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Clean+Healthy talks bills regulating products with ‘forever chemicals’
Environmental advocates are specifically calling for the passage of two bills that would ban the sale of products containing PFAS.
ny1.com
May 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We just have a few weeks to go in the NYS legislative session - plenty of time for the @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social and @nysenate.bsky.social to pass bills that ban #pfas #foreverchemicals in common products most of us use daily. #pfasfreeny #nontoxicny
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🧫 Microplastics & early-onset cancer?
A new perspective links rising cases of colorectal cancer in young people to microplastic exposure – suggesting a gut–environment connection worth urgent attention.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ans....
#SciComm #Microplastics #Cancer 🧪
A new perspective links rising cases of colorectal cancer in young people to microplastic exposure – suggesting a gut–environment connection worth urgent attention.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ans....
#SciComm #Microplastics #Cancer 🧪
Microplastics and the Rising Tide of Early‐Onset Colorectal Cancer: Exploring the Environmental Gut Connection
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
May 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🧫 Microplastics & early-onset cancer?
A new perspective links rising cases of colorectal cancer in young people to microplastic exposure – suggesting a gut–environment connection worth urgent attention.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ans....
#SciComm #Microplastics #Cancer 🧪
A new perspective links rising cases of colorectal cancer in young people to microplastic exposure – suggesting a gut–environment connection worth urgent attention.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ans....
#SciComm #Microplastics #Cancer 🧪
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Join us and Consumer Reports & @cleanhealthyny.bsky.social and learn how you can help get #ToxicChemicals out of #Beauty products harming people of color. Friday, May 23 at 5 PM at Bronx Community Board 12, 4101 White Plains Road in the Bronx. RSVP: action.consumerreports.org/community_co...
May 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Join us and Consumer Reports & @cleanhealthyny.bsky.social and learn how you can help get #ToxicChemicals out of #Beauty products harming people of color. Friday, May 23 at 5 PM at Bronx Community Board 12, 4101 White Plains Road in the Bronx. RSVP: action.consumerreports.org/community_co...
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“Recycled” packaging? Not quite.
This new Grist piece breaks down how "chemical recycling" and fuzzy math are being used to greenwash plastic.
We need safer, non-toxic, reusable packaging—not more plastic and misleading claims. #SaferSolutions
grist.org/accountabili...
This new Grist piece breaks down how "chemical recycling" and fuzzy math are being used to greenwash plastic.
We need safer, non-toxic, reusable packaging—not more plastic and misleading claims. #SaferSolutions
grist.org/accountabili...
The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic
A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here's how it works.
grist.org
May 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“Recycled” packaging? Not quite.
This new Grist piece breaks down how "chemical recycling" and fuzzy math are being used to greenwash plastic.
We need safer, non-toxic, reusable packaging—not more plastic and misleading claims. #SaferSolutions
grist.org/accountabili...
This new Grist piece breaks down how "chemical recycling" and fuzzy math are being used to greenwash plastic.
We need safer, non-toxic, reusable packaging—not more plastic and misleading claims. #SaferSolutions
grist.org/accountabili...
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Does no one remember the Swill Milk Scandal? 8000 babies died in New York State in one year. EIGHT THOUSAND BABIES.
They don't want us to learn history. Or science. Then it's easier to get away with cutting consumer protections to increase their profit margins by selling contaminated food.
They don't want us to learn history. Or science. Then it's easier to get away with cutting consumer protections to increase their profit margins by selling contaminated food.
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
April 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Does no one remember the Swill Milk Scandal? 8000 babies died in New York State in one year. EIGHT THOUSAND BABIES.
They don't want us to learn history. Or science. Then it's easier to get away with cutting consumer protections to increase their profit margins by selling contaminated food.
They don't want us to learn history. Or science. Then it's easier to get away with cutting consumer protections to increase their profit margins by selling contaminated food.
It's not just a cat door...
April 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
It's not just a cat door...
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Post, repost, comment. Why this factual hugely beneficial result doesn’t sway our approaches in the USA is beyond me.
People can’t thrive when they have noplace to lay their head, get clean, feel whole.
People can’t thrive when they have noplace to lay their head, get clean, feel whole.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs less to house people.
It costs less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
April 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Post, repost, comment. Why this factual hugely beneficial result doesn’t sway our approaches in the USA is beyond me.
People can’t thrive when they have noplace to lay their head, get clean, feel whole.
People can’t thrive when they have noplace to lay their head, get clean, feel whole.
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This is no surprise. It doesn't matter how marginally profitable to billionaires deregulation or firing public servants is, even compared to the devastating harm that causes - This administration is clearly committed to extracting everything it can for the very few who already have too much.
Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’
Huge news here. Despite attempts to reverse the ban in darkness, we now see the Trump presidency for what it is.
#PFAS
#Trump
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Huge news here. Despite attempts to reverse the ban in darkness, we now see the Trump presidency for what it is.
#PFAS
#Trump
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’
EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is no surprise. It doesn't matter how marginally profitable to billionaires deregulation or firing public servants is, even compared to the devastating harm that causes - This administration is clearly committed to extracting everything it can for the very few who already have too much.
We're in there somewhere! #HandsOff #nofascism
April 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We're in there somewhere! #HandsOff #nofascism
Lost power and Internet this afternoon when a tree in our yard fell on the lines. Also we'll now but ...
April 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Lost power and Internet this afternoon when a tree in our yard fell on the lines. Also we'll now but ...
So much for lower prices day 1.
April 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
So much for lower prices day 1.
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JD Vance slams Demark for not doing enough for its citizens, when it provides universal healthcare for all of them when the US does not, and they're ranked the "Happiest Country In the World." The US ranks at the bottom of that list.
America is a delusional country that got high on its own supply.
America is a delusional country that got high on its own supply.
March 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
JD Vance slams Demark for not doing enough for its citizens, when it provides universal healthcare for all of them when the US does not, and they're ranked the "Happiest Country In the World." The US ranks at the bottom of that list.
America is a delusional country that got high on its own supply.
America is a delusional country that got high on its own supply.
I'm stuck with Stefanik, I guess.
Nothing says "I don't have a mandate" like being scared of a special election in an incredibly red district.
Nothing says "I don't have a mandate" like being scared of a special election in an incredibly red district.
March 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm stuck with Stefanik, I guess.
Nothing says "I don't have a mandate" like being scared of a special election in an incredibly red district.
Nothing says "I don't have a mandate" like being scared of a special election in an incredibly red district.
From NYT: E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email, Referring to a little-known provision, it said power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other restrictions and that “the president will make a decision.”
No one I ever talked to wanted dirtier air.
No one I ever talked to wanted dirtier air.
March 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
From NYT: E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email, Referring to a little-known provision, it said power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other restrictions and that “the president will make a decision.”
No one I ever talked to wanted dirtier air.
No one I ever talked to wanted dirtier air.
Here's a bit of good news! The NYS Assembly unanimously passed Assemblymember @lindabrosenthal.bsky.social 's bill to ban #PFAS and other toxic chemicals in period products! Thank you so much, Assm. Rosenthal for pushing it across the finish line! Now we just need @governor.ny.gov to sign it!
March 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Here's a bit of good news! The NYS Assembly unanimously passed Assemblymember @lindabrosenthal.bsky.social 's bill to ban #PFAS and other toxic chemicals in period products! Thank you so much, Assm. Rosenthal for pushing it across the finish line! Now we just need @governor.ny.gov to sign it!