Category: Health

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm sold her holdings in electric bus maker Proterra this week, DOE confirmed to POLITICO on Wednesday, following criticism from Republicans that she might be profiting from the administration’s push for electric vehicles. The details: Granholm cleared all of her Proterra holdings in the sales on Monday, providing her with net capital… Continue reading Jennifer Granholm sells holdings in electric bus maker after Republican criticisms

Central banks, the most powerful financial institutions in the world, want to become the guardians of the environment as well. The central banks say climate change is a financial and economic risk. They believe rising sea levels, more wildfires and bigger storms could cause shortages that spur inflation, the regulators’ traditional nemesis. The banks that… Continue reading Central Banks Jump Into Climate-Change Policy Fray

Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. A wildfire in Southern California grew to 1,325 acres on Sunday as roughly 1,000 Topanga Canyon residents had to be evacuated from their homes. Just like that,… Continue reading California is headed toward another brutal wildfire season

In its response to pathogens and vaccines, our immune system relies on dendritic cells. These white blood cells patrol the body’s tissues, collect components of pathogens and vaccines and transport them via lymphatic vessels to the nearest lymph node. There, they present the collected material to other immune cells in order to trigger an immune… Continue reading Shortcut for dendritic cells

ReconAfrica, a Canadian company exploring for oil and gas upstream of one of Africa’s most lush and wildlife-rich habitats, may have fraudulently misled investors by misrepresenting its work on the project, according to several experts and allegations in a whistleblower complaint filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The whistleblower, who acknowledged having… Continue reading Oil exploration company in Okavango wilderness misled investors, complaint to SEC says

Cigna will acquire telehealth platform MDLive, the insurer announced Friday morning. Cigna has been a longtime partner of and investor in MDLive and will fold it into its Evernorth subsidiary, which houses its health services business. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021, pending regulatory approvals. Cigna said that it… Continue reading Cigna's Evernorth to acquire telehealth company MDLive

A thick-billed murre is photographed flying low over the water in 2008. In 2020, researchers found a previously unknown avian influenza in a murre that was a victim of a die-off in Alaska’s Bering Strait region. (Kelly Benoit-Bird / Oregon State University / CC BY-SA 2.0) The warming climate in Alaska and across the circumpolar… Continue reading The coming diseases: As the climate warms, Alaska faces new threats from zoonotic illnessesArcticToday

Democrats push FDA to regulate toxic metals in baby food after investigation finds high levels. Chris Tobin | DigitalVision | Getty Images Top Democrats are pushing the FDA to regulate toxic metals in baby food after a congressional investigation discovered the presence of metals like arsenic, lead and cadmium at levels far higher than those… Continue reading Democrats push FDA to regulate toxic metals in baby food after investigation finds high levels

SALT LAKE CITY — A new study shows that certain industries in the right circumstances can benefit from air pollution regulations to boost their profits, running counter to the notion that all regulations are burdensome and costly to industry. That boost in the bottom line was contrasted in outcomes examined in unregulated industries in the… Continue reading Can pollution regulations help an industry’s bottom line?

Emmarie Huetteman Democrats, newly in control of Congress and the White House, are united behind an idea that Republican lawmakers and major drugmakers fiercely oppose: empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate the prices of brand-name drugs covered by Medicare. This story also ran on Fortune. It can be republished for free.… Continue reading Democrats Eye Medicare Negotiations to Lower Drug Prices