Our 2021 Annual Report: Environment, health, science & impact

An update from the front lines of climate change and environmental health

What a time of change and growth!

We are pleased to share Environmental Health Sciences' 2021 Annual Report, highlighting the many activities we undertook last year that set EHS up for a strong 2022.


Download our annual report here:

EHS-2021-Annual-Report.pdf

Environmental impact

Agriculture and environmental health

2021 was a year of excitement and challenge for our small nonprofit.

  1. We launched EHN en Español,
  2. Doubled down on our commitment to the groundbreaking early career science program Agents of Change, and
  3. Saw significant gains on both the toxics and climate fronts.

And we watched readers – like you! – get engaged in ways that continually surprised us.

Our work continues

PFAS in cosmetics

In just the first three months this year EHS staff has been a hive of activity:

  • Partnered with wellness community Mamavation.com to investigate PFAS contamination in sports bras, cosmetics and other products.
  • Driven a global campaign around groundbreaking BPA limits in Europe – and why the same scientific standards should be applied in the U.S.
  • Published 10 Agents of Change essays & podcasts exploring everything from new pathways into science to workplace chemical exposures.

Take a look at the work EHS did last year and be proud that you, as a reader, are moving it forward.

We certainly are grateful to you!

PS: Just today we published a look at impacts one year after publishing "Fractured," our groundbreaking investigation into spillover pollution from fracking fields in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Check it out!

Banner photo art by David Ryder for EHN.org

An older Asian woman looking at plants on her patio

Hotter than ever: Hawaiʻi preps kūpuna for extreme heat

Heat resilience workshops on the Big Island are offering tools to vulnerable populations to withstand the state's increasingly common heat waves.
A baby sandpiper standing in a seashell on a beach

As the sea swallows a Nigerian community, migratory bird habitat disappears

Increasingly powerful tides linked to rising sea levels are rapidly eroding the coastline in southwestern Nigeria, damaging local community infrastructure as well as the wetlands that shorebirds rely on.

An oil drilling pump jack working in a field a dusk

Trump says he's ending restrictions on methane emissions from oil drilling

President Donald Trump says he's “terminating” a Biden-era rule that aimed to reduce planet-warming emissions of methane from oil and gas drilling.
A view over a darkened valley with the lights of houses and a lake in the background

Stratos Project’s emissions could cause up to 45 premature deaths, illnesses each year

If natural gas continues to be Stratos Project's energy choice, the data center campus would be the root of many public health woes.
SAN DIEGO USA - MAY 27 2016: A protester holds a sign featuring an angry photo of Donald Trump and reading "Bad for America" at an anti-Trump protest outside a Trump rally in San Diego
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New satellites see thousands of methane leaks. Governments shrug

A technological revolution is colliding with political decisions in the U.S. and Europe to weaken climate regulations on the potent gas.

A pile of sandbags helping to keep waves from flooding the beach

Trump’s cuts have exposed US to ‘cascade’ of El Niño dangers, experts warn

Trump has taken an axe to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, stalling climate research on and response to extreme weather events.

From our Newsroom
Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals

Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals

One facility has emitted cancer-causing chemicals into waterways at levels up to 520% higher than legal limits.

Regulators are underestimating health impacts from air pollution: Study

Regulators are underestimating health impacts from air pollution: Study

"The reality is, we are not exposed to one chemical at a time.”

Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro speaks with the state flag and American flag behind him.

Two years into his term, has Gov. Shapiro kept his promises to regulate Pennsylvania’s fracking industry?

A new report assesses the administration’s progress and makes new recommendations

silhouette of people holding hands by a lake at sunset

An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

“We cannot stand by and allow this to happen. We need to hold this administration accountable.”

wildfire retardants being sprayed by plane

New evidence links heavy metal pollution with wildfire retardants

“The chemical black box” that blankets wildfire-impacted areas is increasingly under scrutiny.

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