Trump appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Food and nutrition research, ultra-processed foods, and dietary guidelines are vulnerable to misinformation. Food companies are not social service or public health agencies, their primary priority is to generate profits for shareholders. Industry-funded studies tend to produce results favorable to the sponsor’s commercial interests.

Pesticide sales in the EU rose by 8% in 2024 compared to the previous year, reaching 316,000 tonnes. Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and the EU's leading agricultural producers accounted for 76% of total pesticide sales in 2024. In total, there has been a 12% reduction in pesticide sales, which is far from the 61% decline in usage claimed by the Commission since the 2011-2013 baseline period. PAN Europe filed a formal complaint to the European Ombudsman in 2025.

Kara Meredith's 5-week-old son had a bathtub full of water on August 23, 2025. Her uncle said it was oil. The United States is the largest oil and gas producer in the world. Oil and gas drilling produces billions of gallons of toxic wastewater each year. In Oklahoma, the fluid is spreading uncontrollably belowground, blasting out of old, unplugged wells and polluting land and contaminating drinking water.

The EU Commission proposes to allow pesticides without restrictions. The National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina criticizes this proposal. It is questionable whether this would continue to protect people and the environment as well as before. The federal government should work within the EU to ensure that the proposal does not prevail.

The Trump administration has recklessly dismantled the democratic institutions that keep us safe, including the systems that rely on the best available science to inform government decision-making. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) eliminated its Office of Research and Development (ORD), the EPA's hub of independent scientific research. ORD was created as a standalone office outside of policy offices so that scientific research could be conducted without undue influence from political appointees. EPA replaced ORD with a new Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions (OASES), which puts science under direct control of political appointee. The chemical industry has been trying to kill the IRIS program for years.

Japan bought about 1 million tonnes of bananas last year, but supplies of naphtha-derived gas are running low due to the Middle East conflict. The resulting shortage is the worst in five decades, according to the Japan Banana Importers Association. Some importers have secured enough ethylene to last about two to three months, but retailers are under pressure to pass on higher petrochemical-linked costs.

Christiaan van Woudenberg is an anti-fracking activist in Erie, Colorado. He's shocked by the level of oil and gas pollution in Weld county. The state's three biggest oil companies, Chevron, Oxy and Civitas, have provided financial collateral for more than 11,700 wells. They also own more than 14,600 plugged wells where cleanup was never completed. Colorado's actions quietly erased over $1bn in required financial guarantees.

FDA released the Executive Incident Summary on the ByHeart infant botulism outbreak. The agency redacted the name of the company that supplied the powdered milk and the place it operates. The name isn't actually a secret. Dairy Farmers of America confirmed, publicly and on the record, that its plant in Fallon, Nevada dried the milk, and that Organic West sold the powder to ByHeart.