Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (UCSF)

12/12/2025

Are plastics affecting children's behavior? New study might give parents pause.

Researchers say exposure during pregnancy has ‘important potential connections’ to behaviour differences in young children

12/11/2025

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12/11/2025

EPA is making decisions about harmful chemicals while ignoring data on real-world health impacts. Read our new blog.

You may not have heard of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (known as D4), but we can guarantee you have probably come into contact with it. Used in products from adhesives and automotive care products to cosmetics, hair treatments, and deodorants, regulators in Canada, the European Union, and the United...

12/11/2025

A new study on the health harms of PFAS in New Hampshire reveal some alarming findings. EPA needs to take this seriously.

An innovative study mapped preterm births, low birth weights and infant mortality to municipal water wells downstream from PFAS-contaminated sites. The results show the high cost of PFAS harm.

12/10/2025

When happens when you put chemical industry lobbyists in charge at EPA? You get decisions that make the chemical industry happy. That's not good for your health.

Main Takeaways: EPA sidelines chronic health risks of formaldehyde in a revised formaldehyde risk evaluation. The revisions represent a blow to the federal government’s ability to regulate formaldehyde and protect workers and others exposed to the hazardous chemical. While EPA maintains that forma...

12/10/2025

We used to think people consumed a credit card worth of microplastic each year. Now a new study has found the amount is much larger.

There are ways to reduce consumption of microplastics, including avoid drinking water in plastic bottles. But the most important way to reduce consuming microplastics is to reduce the production and use of plastic.

Study estimated humans consume 250g of microplastics, the size of a dinner plate, every year

12/10/2025

Journalists, please take note. Draft legislation is expected to be introduced tomorrow. And we at PRHE have a lot to say about it...

Reopening TSCA now is a

Chemical industry lobbyists are working aggressively to weaken the Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the regulations and standards to implement it.

12/09/2025

There are real-life consequences to eliminating environmental safeguards that protect health. Federal agencies should work to protect health, not to protect polluters.

I lost my friend to cancer. EPA rollbacks make more losses inevitable.

12/09/2025

Draft legislation is circulating in Congress right now. If the chemical lobby gets its way and weakens the Toxic Substances Control Act, people will be exposed to more harmful chemicals and more people will get sick.

12/08/2025

Eliminating safeguards designed to protect people from toxic chemicals including PFAS does not make people healthy. The current administration has stacked EPA with industry insiders who are doing the chemical lobby's bidding.

As head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin has weakened protections against toxic chemicals, say members of the MAHA movement.

12/08/2025

We applaud propublica's excellent reporting and their accurate headlines.

EPA is doing industry's bidding on formaldehyde.

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 use them.

12/08/2025

Who benefits by covering up PFAS pollution? PFAS polluters. Another bad idea from EPA that will harm people's health.

EPA says the change will cut red tape, but new research suggests regulators may already be missing major sources of contamination.