"The experience motivated the two Rice University students to create a digital map documenting U.S. Immigration Customs Agency activity, and awareness around their project has been growing since it went live in June."
"The experience motivated the two Rice University students to create a digital map documenting U.S. Immigration Customs Agency activity, and awareness around their project has been growing since it went live in June."
"The state has for years tracked the number of pregnant people in county jails and incidents of restraints — but now, Texas is also collecting information about their prenatal care, mental health indicators, pregnancy outcomes and more. Advocates hope this effort will provide more accountability to a system that incarcerates hundreds of pregnant people each month."
#PublicHealth #incarceration #ReproHealth #pregnancy #MentalHealth #research #texas
Health department warns against consuming raw dairy products
February 3, 2026 - Public Health - Awareness
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health is warning New Mexicans to avoid raw dairy products following the death of a newborn from Listeria infection.
Health officials believe the most likely source of infection was unpasteurized milk the infant's mother drank during pregnancy. While investigators cannot pinpoint the exact cause, the tragic death underscores the serious risks raw dairy poses to pregnant women, young children, elderly New Mexicans and anyone with a weakened immune system.
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Arstechnica: Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy
Raw milk is promoted by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Kennedy.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/newborns-death-spurs-raw-milk-warning-in-new-mexico/
"The state has for years tracked the number of pregnant people in county jails and incidents of restraints — but now, Texas is also collecting information about their prenatal care, mental health indicators, pregnancy outcomes and more. Advocates hope this effort will provide more accountability to a system that incarcerates hundreds of pregnant people each month."
#PublicHealth #incarceration #ReproHealth #pregnancy #MentalHealth #research #texas
"The two brothers of Renee Good, the 37-year-old Minneapolis woman killed by a federal immigration officer in January, spoke on Capitol Hill Tuesday, telling lawmakers of the effect their sister’s death had on their family.
'The deep distress our family feels because of Renee’s loss in such a violent and unnecessary way is complicated by feelings of disbelief, distress and desperation for change,' said one brother, Luke Ganger."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/renee-goods-brothers-testify-capitol-hill-after-deadly/story?id=129826762
The full story of #Georgia’s #power structures prioritizing a prized industry over #PublicHealth is only now emerging through dozens of interviews & thousands of pages of court records from lawsuits against the industry & its #chemical suppliers. Those records, including testimony from key executives, emails & other internal documents, detail how #carpet companies benefited from chemistry & #regulatory #inaction to keep using #ForeverChemicals.
All the while, the mills still hummed.
The #pollution is so bad some researchers have identified the region as one of the nation’s #PFAS hot spots. Today, the consequences can be found everywhere. PFAS, often called #ForeverChemicals because they can take decades or more to break down, are in the #water & the #soil.
They’re in the dust on floors where #children crawl, the local #fish & #wildlife, & as ongoing research has shown, the #people.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #regulations #PublicHealth #Climate #DrinkingWater #Alabama #Georgia
Inside America’s carpet capital: an empire & its #toxic legacy Covering the world in #carpet came with a cost no one wants to pay
…A lack of state & federal #regulations allowed carpet companies & their suppliers to legally switch among different versions of stain-&-soil resistant products.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #pollution #PFAs #ForeverChemicals #chemicals #PublicHealth #Climate #people #children #fish #wildlife #river #water #soil #DrinkingWater #Alabama #Georgia
https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-05-AP+Investigation+
Meanwhile, the local public #utility in Dalton, #Georgia responsible for ensuring safe #DrinkingWater coordinated with #carpet executives in private meetings that would effectively shield their companies from #oversight.
Year after year, the #chemicals traveled in #water discarded during manufacturing from mills across northwest Georgia, eventually reaching a #river system that provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in Georgia & eastern #Alabama.
An investigation by newsrooms including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Associated Press & FRONTLINE (PBS) has revealed how the economic engine that sustained northwest #Georgia #contaminated the area & neighboring states, too. Downriver from Dalton, AL.com found cities in #Alabama are struggling to remove #PFAS from #DrinkingWater. And in #SouthCarolina, The Post & Courier traced a local watchdog’s discovery of #ForeverChemicals to a #river by a Shaw factory.
#law #health
The full story of #Georgia’s #power structures prioritizing a prized industry over #PublicHealth is only now emerging through dozens of interviews & thousands of pages of court records from lawsuits against the industry & its #chemical suppliers. Those records, including testimony from key executives, emails & other internal documents, detail how #carpet companies benefited from chemistry & #regulatory #inaction to keep using #ForeverChemicals.
All the while, the mills still hummed.
Meanwhile, the local public #utility in Dalton, #Georgia responsible for ensuring safe #DrinkingWater coordinated with #carpet executives in private meetings that would effectively shield their companies from #oversight.
Year after year, the #chemicals traveled in #water discarded during manufacturing from mills across northwest Georgia, eventually reaching a #river system that provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in Georgia & eastern #Alabama.
The #pollution is so bad some researchers have identified the region as one of the nation’s #PFAS hot spots. Today, the consequences can be found everywhere. PFAS, often called #ForeverChemicals because they can take decades or more to break down, are in the #water & the #soil.
They’re in the dust on floors where #children crawl, the local #fish & #wildlife, & as ongoing research has shown, the #people.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #regulations #PublicHealth #Climate #DrinkingWater #Alabama #Georgia
