⚡️ Floods or not, fire season’s (probably) right around the corner. Get up to the minute air quality reports with a Purple Air monitor (and nifty map, too)

⚡️ Your community may need to replace toxic lead water service lines. Check out Beyond Plastic’s report on the pros and cons of PVC pipes.

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⚡️ Speaking of lead pipes — will microplastics and PFAS (“forever chemicals”) be our version? Check out PFAS Central’s PFAS-free brands and consumer products.

Seasonal allergies are coming for us all

In Cancer Alley, US chemical giants mounted a campaign against grassroots organizers, so they can continue to kill people

Apparently forever chemicals in food packaging (like take-out containers) can migrate into food

North Carolina passed a 12 week abortion ban, fuck those guys

Barbie launched the first doll with Down’s syndrome

None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use

Recycling, which doesn’t really work, also spews microplastics

Environmentalists sue California over their stupidly reduced solar incentives

The SEC is taking forever to regulate climate disclosures, so the EU has gone one farther and oh boy

Florida and Louisiana are borrowing millions to pay insurance claims (go deeper in my must-listen convo with Washington Post reporter Brianna Sacks)

In which the FDA chief dips his toe very gently into the idea of food as medicine

Non-profit grocery stores are trying to rehab America’s food deserts

Inside Big Beef’s (incredibly effective) climate messaging machine

Meet the climate hackers of frontline Malawi

Pollution from farms violates civil rights, maybe?

WATCH: Sal Khan unveils Khan Academy’s new educational chatbot, Khanmigo

Google began rolling out passkeys — this is a great day for data security (check out how to enable it now)

The FTC wants to stop Meta/Facebook from releasing any new products until they stop trouncing kids’ privacy

Washington State passed a sweeping health data law

Per the WHO, with commentary from David Wallace-Wells: Apparently the Pandemic Emergency is Over (it was America’s 4th leading cause of death in 2022)

There’s a new culprit behind Long COVID: monocytes

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