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Shockingly, just as tobacco companies understood for years the harm caused by their products, fossil fuel companies have conducted decades-long misinformation campaigns that have slowed the transition to cleaner energy and resulted in a staggering number of real-world health consequences, placing lives at risk and straining an already overburdened healthcare system.

On Feb. 12, 2026, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the department’s decision to rescind the Endangerment Finding, a 2009 rule that enabled the EPA to regulate six key well-mixed greenhouse gases, including CO2 and methane, as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The EPA’s announcement says it is repealing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regulations for all motor vehicles and engines from 2012 to 2027 and beyond. Given that the transportation sector accounts for one

Michigan health practitioners have long borne witness to the detrimental impacts of mis- and disinformation. Whether it's bad-faith speculation about the efficacy of proven public health interventions or polluters who deny and downplay their liability, we know that when industries set their own rules, they act only in their best interest and often to the detriment of the public's well-being. Nowhere is this more apparent than with fossil fuel companies that have lobbied exten

When I got my COVID and flu vaccines earlier this year, it didn’t just feel like a health-conscious choice, but a civic duty. Over the last decade, we’ve increasingly seen how the rise in mis- and disinformation on social media platforms have fueled political polarization and vice versa. This has made even small, personal decisions like getting a flu shot take on some weighty political significance. There are many factors contributing to the rise of the anti-vax movement, in