Tracey Woodruff
@traceywoodruff.bsky.social
Professor - Scientist - Environment Chemicals & Health - Science & Policy @UCSF Director @UCSF_PRHE and @UCSF_EaRTH Center
I read between the lines so you don't have to
Views/Tweets are my own
I read between the lines so you don't have to
Views/Tweets are my own
Want to see the result of a 30 year campaign? Industry gets its wish to undermine risk assessment and formaldehyde
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Want to see the result of a 30 year campaign? Industry gets its wish to undermine risk assessment and formaldehyde
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Reposted by Tracey Woodruff
The chemical lobby has been spending millions of dollars to change the Toxic Substances Control Act. That's the main law that works to protect people from harmful chemicals.
What does industry want? They want less oversight and less concern for your health. #badidea
What does industry want? They want less oversight and less concern for your health. #badidea
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The chemical lobby has been spending millions of dollars to change the Toxic Substances Control Act. That's the main law that works to protect people from harmful chemicals.
What does industry want? They want less oversight and less concern for your health. #badidea
What does industry want? They want less oversight and less concern for your health. #badidea
Reposted by Tracey Woodruff
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
👇Webinar on how financial conflicts of interest and corporations influence the decision making process
webinar Thurs. Dec. 11:
Corporate influence on science in a shifting political landscape
www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
Corporate influence on science in a shifting political landscape
www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
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...
www.healthandenvironment.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
👇Webinar on how financial conflicts of interest and corporations influence the decision making process
Reposted by Tracey Woodruff
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
www.youtube.com/live/eTZ9rjV...
- 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
www.youtube.com/live/eTZ9rjV...
Day 1 12/02 - Peer Review of the Draft Risk Evaluation for Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4)
YouTube video by uvideoonline
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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
www.youtube.com/live/eTZ9rjV...
- 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
www.youtube.com/live/eTZ9rjV...
Another Making America Sick Again action by the Trump administration.
Going to court on behalf of the industry to get rid of the new air pollution standards that protect people from getting sick and dying.
insideepa.com/daily-news/e...
Going to court on behalf of the industry to get rid of the new air pollution standards that protect people from getting sick and dying.
insideepa.com/daily-news/e...
EPA Asks D.C. Circuit To Vacate Biden-Era PM2.5 NAAQS As Unlawful | InsideEPA.com
EPA is asking the D.C. Circuit to vacate the Biden EPA’s tougher fine particulate (PM2.5) federal air standard, seeking to convince some judges that the rule is unlawful after they declined to support...
insideepa.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Another Making America Sick Again action by the Trump administration.
Going to court on behalf of the industry to get rid of the new air pollution standards that protect people from getting sick and dying.
insideepa.com/daily-news/e...
Going to court on behalf of the industry to get rid of the new air pollution standards that protect people from getting sick and dying.
insideepa.com/daily-news/e...
this was a great article - and made me rethink the term and what we are doing today to protect workers from being mauled by capitalism
Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I.
Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
www.newyorker.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
this was a great article - and made me rethink the term and what we are doing today to protect workers from being mauled by capitalism
Reposted by Tracey Woodruff
In the World of Pain project, we found that German drugmaker Grünenthal promotes its opioids through misleading tactics including funding doctors, studies, patient groups and pain associations. 💊👇
www.theexamination.org/articles/fou...
www.theexamination.org/articles/fou...
Four ways Grünenthal spreads misleading claims about opioids around the world
To promote its painkillers, the drugmaker doles out funding for studies, doctors, patients groups, pain associations and more.
www.theexamination.org
August 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In the World of Pain project, we found that German drugmaker Grünenthal promotes its opioids through misleading tactics including funding doctors, studies, patient groups and pain associations. 💊👇
www.theexamination.org/articles/fou...
www.theexamination.org/articles/fou...
So many plastics from so many places - and growing
leading to our exposures. Time for the plastics treaty to address health when the countries meet in August
leading to our exposures. Time for the plastics treaty to address health when the countries meet in August
July 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
So many plastics from so many places - and growing
leading to our exposures. Time for the plastics treaty to address health when the countries meet in August
leading to our exposures. Time for the plastics treaty to address health when the countries meet in August
👇 Excellent article on our new paper on why - Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say insideclimatenews.org/news/0907202...
Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say - Inside Climate News
Plastics and their toxic chemicals endanger people, wildlife and the environment throughout their life cycle, they warn, calling for production caps in the U.N. treaty.
insideclimatenews.org
July 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
👇 Excellent article on our new paper on why - Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say insideclimatenews.org/news/0907202...
Reposted by Tracey Woodruff
Washington’s @ecology.wa.gov just released a draft rule on toxic #PFAS.
✅ Ban proposed for clothing, car washes & cleaning products.
⚠️ But for most products? Just reporting—not a ban.
PFAS are toxic & costly to clean up—and alternatives exist.
🗣️ Tell Ecology by July 20: Ban PFAS in ALL products!
✅ Ban proposed for clothing, car washes & cleaning products.
⚠️ But for most products? Just reporting—not a ban.
PFAS are toxic & costly to clean up—and alternatives exist.
🗣️ Tell Ecology by July 20: Ban PFAS in ALL products!
Tell Ecology: Ban PFAS in ALL products! - Toxic-Free Future
Washington's Department of Ecology must do more to identify safer solutions and ban PFAS in ALL products—not just a few.
toxicfreefuture.org
July 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Washington’s @ecology.wa.gov just released a draft rule on toxic #PFAS.
✅ Ban proposed for clothing, car washes & cleaning products.
⚠️ But for most products? Just reporting—not a ban.
PFAS are toxic & costly to clean up—and alternatives exist.
🗣️ Tell Ecology by July 20: Ban PFAS in ALL products!
✅ Ban proposed for clothing, car washes & cleaning products.
⚠️ But for most products? Just reporting—not a ban.
PFAS are toxic & costly to clean up—and alternatives exist.
🗣️ Tell Ecology by July 20: Ban PFAS in ALL products!
Reposted by Tracey Woodruff
Today, the EPA moved to roll back key protections against carbon emissions and air pollution from fossil fuel power plants. “It’s galling to watch the US government so thoroughly debase itself as it sacrifices the public good to boost the bottom line of fossil fuel.”
UCS Statement:
UCS Statement:
Dark Day for Climate, Health as EPA Axes Power Plant Carbon Regs, Reopens Mercury Pollution Loopholes
EPA announced new plans to unravel protections from harmful carbon emissions and hazardous air pollution released by fossil fuel-fired power plants
www.ucs.org
June 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Today, the EPA moved to roll back key protections against carbon emissions and air pollution from fossil fuel power plants. “It’s galling to watch the US government so thoroughly debase itself as it sacrifices the public good to boost the bottom line of fossil fuel.”
UCS Statement:
UCS Statement:
👉new blog on study finding exposures to haloalkanes linked to aggressive brain cancer - supported by our @ucsf-earth.bsky.social
prheucsf.blog/2025/06/10/c...
prheucsf.blog/2025/06/10/c...
Chemicals used in firefighting and pesticides linked to most common and deadly brain tumors
Causes of gliomas, the most common type of deadly brain tumor, remain a mystery despite improvements in understanding glioma risks. Firefighters have a higher rate of these cancerous tumors, so we exp...
prheucsf.blog
June 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
👉new blog on study finding exposures to haloalkanes linked to aggressive brain cancer - supported by our @ucsf-earth.bsky.social
prheucsf.blog/2025/06/10/c...
prheucsf.blog/2025/06/10/c...
New study finding glyphosate increases cancers after early life exposure
ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Carcinogenic effects of long-term exposure from prenatal life to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides in Sprague–Dawley rats - Environmental Health
Background Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) are the world’s most widely used weed control agents. Public health concerns have increased since the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) c...
ehjournal.biomedcentral.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
New study finding glyphosate increases cancers after early life exposure
ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
👇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.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
Plus, I have weird blue hair in the illustration, so it is worth checking out just to see that.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
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
www.newscientist.com
June 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
👇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.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
Plus, I have weird blue hair in the illustration, so it is worth checking out just to see that.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
woo hoo - successful science! more of what the world needs
May 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
woo hoo - successful science! more of what the world needs
Reposted by Tracey Woodruff
Tomorrow is World No Tobacco Day! The Industry Documents Library at UCSF hosts publicly released industry documents for research & education. Check out our tobacco collections, now also including over 4 million documents from Juul Labs. #WorldNoTobaccoDay
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
May 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Tomorrow is World No Tobacco Day! The Industry Documents Library at UCSF hosts publicly released industry documents for research & education. Check out our tobacco collections, now also including over 4 million documents from Juul Labs. #WorldNoTobaccoDay
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
How often can you get admission to a FREE workshop with experts in systematic review? If you are attending @isee-global.bsky.social in Atlanta - learn best practices
Register here
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May 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How often can you get admission to a FREE workshop with experts in systematic review? If you are attending @isee-global.bsky.social in Atlanta - learn best practices
Register here
www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-con...
Register here
www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-con...
Reposted by Tracey Woodruff
TOMORROW - Learn about UCSF’s Center to End Corporate Harm, how to use the Industry Documents Library, and how researchers tap these internal documents to understand how corporations influence science & policy.
@ucsf-prhe.bsky.social
RSVP here: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
@ucsf-prhe.bsky.social
RSVP here: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
May 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
TOMORROW - Learn about UCSF’s Center to End Corporate Harm, how to use the Industry Documents Library, and how researchers tap these internal documents to understand how corporations influence science & policy.
@ucsf-prhe.bsky.social
RSVP here: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
@ucsf-prhe.bsky.social
RSVP here: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
Join us to hear about what is really driving our current health crisis - and the amazing resources at UCSF that will help address the role of corporate influence on science as a health driver. 👇
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.
Register at: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register at: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Join us to hear about what is really driving our current health crisis - and the amazing resources at UCSF that will help address the role of corporate influence on science as a health driver. 👇
OH the irony - they want to publish in their own journals? and they suspended publication of Environmental Health Perspectives a NIEHS/NIH journal.
hmm
hmm
The criticism of The Lancet, NEJM and JAMA is not new, but the health secretary may use his position to influence research that journals publish.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/r...
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/r...
‘Corrupt’ medical journals have to change, RFK Jr. says, or the NIH will publish in-house
The criticism of The Lancet, NEJM and JAMA is not new, but the health secretary may use his position to influence research that journals publish.
www.statnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
OH the irony - they want to publish in their own journals? and they suspended publication of Environmental Health Perspectives a NIEHS/NIH journal.
hmm
hmm
Our statement on new MAHA report. It identifies growing chronic children's health conditions and some toxic chemicals' effects.
Also names Corporate Influence as a contributor
But children will get less healthy with administration's proposed cuts to EPA & research
prheucsf.blog/2025/05/23/s...
Also names Corporate Influence as a contributor
But children will get less healthy with administration's proposed cuts to EPA & research
prheucsf.blog/2025/05/23/s...
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...
prheucsf.blog
May 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Our statement on new MAHA report. It identifies growing chronic children's health conditions and some toxic chemicals' effects.
Also names Corporate Influence as a contributor
But children will get less healthy with administration's proposed cuts to EPA & research
prheucsf.blog/2025/05/23/s...
Also names Corporate Influence as a contributor
But children will get less healthy with administration's proposed cuts to EPA & research
prheucsf.blog/2025/05/23/s...
Reposted by Tracey Woodruff
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.
www.youtube.com/live/3l-bOsI...
www.youtube.com/live/3l-bOsI...
Toxic Priorities: How Trump’s EPA Puts Polluters Over People
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
www.youtube.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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.
www.youtube.com/live/3l-bOsI...
www.youtube.com/live/3l-bOsI...
And I have been hard on the NYTimes for not covering the role of funding source in their science. So I want to give them extra props and say - please more.
Excellent NY Times article on how industry funding influences findings of whether meat is beneficial
👉 Studies funded by the red meat industry were nearly 4 times as likely to report favorable or neutral cardiovascular results compared to studies with no such links
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...
👉 Studies funded by the red meat industry were nearly 4 times as likely to report favorable or neutral cardiovascular results compared to studies with no such links
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...
Is Red Meat Bad for Your Heart? It May Depend on Who Funded the Study.
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
And I have been hard on the NYTimes for not covering the role of funding source in their science. So I want to give them extra props and say - please more.