Environmentalist. Scientist. Lawyer. Antispecist. Vegan. Defender of those with no voice. Tweets are my personal views. Covid is not over.
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Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
When PFAS concentrations fall below laboratory reporting limits, they are sometimes treated as zero. A new study suggests this practice may be hiding low levels of contamination in U.S. drinking water.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2…
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
U.S. is a big reason the world is losing ground in the fight against climate change, U.N. report says
U.S. was only major economy that failed last year to reduce its carbon pollution or at least slow the growth in how much c02 is spewed by burning fossil fuels.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-…
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
PFAS, the “forever chemicals” contaminating water supplies worldwide, should be a much bigger environmental priority. These chemicals persist for decades, and their widespread presence in rainwater shows how far the contamination has spread. We cannot keep using substances that threaten the very ecosystems and water sources life depends on.
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
The European study found trifluoroacetic acid, or TFA, in all 110 participants, at a level the report describes as among the highest yet measured in humans. No benchmark tied to health effects has yet been set for TFA levels in human blood.
ALT European study finds TFA in all 110 blood samples, prompting demands for PFAS pesticide ban
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
Sorry, but this is absolute nonsense. The reason people haven’t acted on climate change is because the massive amount of disinformation being pumped out from most of the media that for decades has said it’s probably not true.
The opposite is true. This woolly false hope forced positivity mentality is exactly why people don’t understand it’s the existential life-and-death-billions-of-us-at-risk crisis that it is.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
“Biodiverstiy loss” isn’t a term that motivates people. “Extinction of animals and plants” does.
I’m updating my vocabulary from now whenever I talk about this. Reminder that the foods you eat affects the extinction of animals in the natural world!
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
Just for the record:
I'm in possibly the world's smallest club:
"The environmentalists who acknowledge the role human numbers (population) play in ecological impacts".
In fact, most of the vitriol I receive,
... is from "environmentalists".
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
Look, I get it. No one wants their emails read. I sure as heck don't
But my decisions don't affect the health of millions of people
When transparency is clearly being evaded, it dissolves public trust
We need to rebuild trust in our public institutions now more than ever
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
If you have ANY problems legally voting :
Go to your polling place on Election Day. Ask for a Provisional Ballot and get a receipt. Follow up at your courthouse the next day and bring photo ID and proof of residence.
Don't let the cheaters win.
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
Instead of ensuring that the 2 most toxic PFAS known to humans are not manufactured anymore in the U.S., this administration thought it better to just change the language on its website
But hey, at least really rich people will make even more money 🙄
theguardian.com/environment/…
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
“If you have a chemical and there’s no safe level of it, then why on earth would you allow it to be manufactured?…This all makes perfect sense if you understand the reality that the EPA is an arm of industry, especially under the Trump administration.”
Robert F Kennedy Jr, if he is actually trying to Make America Healthy Again could tackle this by himself by using the FDA to get thr PFAS chemical class out of our food and food containers. But he won’t. Because he is also captured by the chemical industry.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
"The number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion...and those populations haven’t come close to recovering, the study found."
Marine life dramatically declined in Gulf of Mexico in years after BP oil spill, study finds apnews.com/article/fish-dead…
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
Imagine the terror of being hung upside down by steel chains while alive and fully conscious. 💔
This is the brutality #cows routinely experience behind the closed doors of slaughterhouses in the #meat industry 😫 @weanimals
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
Funny how there are never any emergency leader broadcasts about this kind of thing isn’t it.
We all just have to accept it because the rich must always be richer
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
Children who went to school and came home in coffins between 2000–2025: 529
Children who went to school and came home with sex-change surgery: ZERO.
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
We + @CenterForBioDiv + @pesticideaction just sued the EPA in order to force the agency to develop water quality standards around the cancer-linked #pesticide atrazine, which has been detected in 36 states serving approx 40 million people. courthousenews.com/epa-sued-… @CourthouseNews
Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER retweeted
With another school shooting, this time in Bend, Oregon, it might be a good time to point out that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban almost halved mass shooting deaths - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths more than doubled. It’s the guns.
