Our Health
If Washington lawmakers were listening to Us, they’d insist on policies that promote nutrition, safety and healthy living.
But mega-corporations have caught the ear of our representatives so health and safety measures always seem to get sidelined.
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A government of, by and for the people should act to keep its citizens safe and healthy. It’s time for Us to have citizen owned elections, take back our government and make Our Health a number one priority.
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The Latest
EPA eases rules on how coal ash waste is stored across U.S.
Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis • Jul 17, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule Tuesday to overhaul requirements for handling the toxic waste produced by burning coal, providing more flexibility to state and industry officials who had sought a rollback of restrictions put in place in 2015.
Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution by U.S. Stuns World Health Officials
Andrew Jacobs • Jul 08, 2018
A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.
A top DOI official had at least six meeting with the mining industry. She then helped cancel a study on public-health effects of mining.
Jimmy Tobias • Jun 11, 2018
Records obtained by Pacific Standard reveal that a top official at the DOI had a hand in nixing a government-funded public-health study in Appalachia—after a series of meetings with some of the most powerful mining players in the country.
