Environment Footnotes News in Brief Synthesizing the News The Environmental Protection Agency Puts a Top Children’s Health Official on Leave Researchers are worried that the EPA plans to reduce the Office of Children's Health Protection's influence, or shutter it altogether. Francie Diep
Social Justice What Caused My Cancer? Was it bad genes? Bad luck? Or was it the toxins I eat, drink, breathe, and touch on a regular basis because the United States has a policy of putting the burden of proof for product safety on the consumer? Shana Bernstein
Environment Eating Creosote: A Poisonous Response to Climate Change Genetic mutations are allowing woodrats to eat toxic creosote as climate change makes their preferred diet of juniper harder to find. Matt Palmquist