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Abortion rights demonstrators march near the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, June 25, 2022. (SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

Texas abortion exceptions still muddled

Nicole Karlis
Rusting tanks inside the now derelict Union Carbide factory compound. These tanks used to store methyl isocyanide, the toxic chemical that leaked on December 23, 1984 killing at least 5,000 people in the following 72 hours and many thousands more subsequently. (Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The '80s disaster still destroying lives

Matthew Rozsa
Tylenol | Pregnant woman's belly (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is Tylenol really causing birth defects?

Matthew Rozsa
Vintage sofa in living-room (Getty Images/ Iuliia Zavalishina)

The toxic menace in old furniture

Matthew Rozsa
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American bullfrog floating at the surface of a farm pond in Kentucky USA. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"Health of all species" in danger

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
A soldier walks past open sewage on December 14, 2005 in Az Zubayr near Basra in southern Iraq. (John Moore/Getty Images)

How the U.S. poisoned Iraq

David Masciotra
Burn pit in Afghanistan (Getty/Andrew Burton)

Beau Biden and the burn pits

Joseph Hickman
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Agent Orange, exposed

Jason von Meding - The Conversation
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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-62354p1.html'>Anna Jurkovska</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

B3: A miracle vitamin?

Tatiyana Lewis
An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
An Iraqi boy in the southern outskirts of Baghdad, February 17, 2016. (Getty/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

The Iraq war's toxic legacy

David Masciotra
Paul Ryan (AP/Cliff Owen)

The GOP Won't Fight Zika

Amanda Marcotte
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