Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies
HEEDS is a non-profit coalition of scientists dedicated to improving communication, coordination and collaboration in the field of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). HEEDS is developed by scientists for scientists. There are no membership fees. HEEDS works to move EDC science forward, increase collaborations across scientific disciplines, communicate results and improve policy and regulations.
Lou Guillette Jr. Memorial Symposium
March 14-15, 2025
EDC-NC North Carolina group 5th annual meeting
April 25, 2025
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- “A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”: Independent scientists advocate for an effective Global Plastics Treatyby Sarah Howard,Katherine McMahon on February 18, 2025 at 5:11 pm
Members of the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty, over 70 of whom attended the 5th negotiation session for the UN Plastics Treaty (INC5) in November, argue in a new article published in Cambridge Prisms: Plastics that the treaty must address the full life cycle of plastics and include production reduction targets. “It is critical that the treaty negotiations continue to be informed by independent science, to better ensure that when consensus is reached we have a global approach leading to reduced negative impacts from plastics across their entire life cycle."
- Opinion: RFK Jr.’s disinformation is a rallying cry for women in STEMby Kathryn Rodgers on February 14, 2025 at 2:58 pm
I have never been so motivated and grateful to be a woman in science as while watching Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Senate Finance Committee nomination hearing. As an environmental health researcher, I know there is strong evidence that industrial and commercial chemicals are linked to increasing rates of neurodevelopmental disorders, cancer, asthma, and many other chronic diseases. However, RFK Jr. has clearly demonstrated he has very little understanding of public health, science, or women.
- California law is pushing companies to ditch toxic chemicalsby EHN Curators on February 14, 2025 at 2:52 pm
California’s landmark warning-label law may be doing what critics said was impossible — getting companies to pull dangerous chemicals from their products. Hiroko Tabuchi reports for The New York Times.
- House Republican moves to block new EPA rule on lead in drinking waterby EHN Curators on February 14, 2025 at 12:14 pm
A new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule aimed at reducing lead in drinking water faces a challenge from Rep. Gary Palmer ((R-Ala.), who introduced a resolution to overturn it using the Congressional Review Act. Keerti Gopal reports for Inside Climate News.
- EPA cuts raise concerns about clean air and water protectionsby EHN Curators on February 13, 2025 at 8:53 am
President Donald Trump’s administration is rapidly downsizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, raising questions about whether it can still enforce key environmental protections. Lylla Younes reports for Grist.
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- Lou Guillette Jr. Memorial Symposiumby Sarah Howard on February 14, 2025 at 3:36 pm
The agenda is now available for the March 14-15 Lou Guillette Jr. Memorial Symposium, hosted by HEEDS, at the University of Florida. It will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Guillette, gather together his trainees and colleagues, and focus on the endocrine disruption research that Lou made famous. Information and agenda here.
- North Carolina EDC working group 5th annual meetingby Sarah Howard on February 13, 2025 at 12:46 pm
On Friday, April 25, 2025, Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS) is hosting the 5th Annual Meeting of EDC-NC, its North Carolina working group on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Attendance is open to anyone and the cost is free. More information.
- Webinar: Ultrashort-chain PFAS: the global threat of trifluoroacetic acidby Sarah Howard on February 11, 2025 at 4:41 pm
This Feb. 19, 2025 webinar features Dr. Hans Peter Arp discussing TFA, a degradation product of many refrigerants and a widespread contaminant in the environment. Shorter-chain PFAS have been assumed to be less hazardous than longer-chain PFAS, but widespread exposures have not been taken into account in making this assessment. Sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership.
- Webinar: Plastics, chemicals and cancer: The role of the Global Plastics Treaty in preventing breast cancerby Sarah Howard on February 11, 2025 at 4:37 pm
This Feb. 27 webinar is sponsored by CHE-Alaska. Researchers at the Silent Spring Institute recently identified more than 900 chemicals that could increase breast cancer risk, and found that 414 of these chemicals are used in plastics. They will discuss the findings of this paper, and how the global plastics treaty could help lower breast cancer rates worldwide.
- Webinar: GMO corn and glyphosate: New evidence from Mexican scientists (in English and Spanish)by Sarah Howard on February 11, 2025 at 4:28 pm
This March 4 webinar will discuss Mexico’s recently released scientific review document, and will be presented with simultaneous English/Spanish interpretation. The evidence draws on recent literature to make the case that there are unacceptable health risks from GM corn and glyphosate for Mexican people who consume large quantities of minimally processed corn in food products such as tortillas. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE) and U.S. Right to Know.
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