The 15 minute city is a simple urban planning concept that prioritizes the people's health and wellbeing, with the added benefit of reducing environmental impact, pollution, and inefficiencies. It is arguably the best way to design an urban space. So why do the conservatives have a full blown moral panic about it?

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Regulations are written in blood. Whose blood are we using?

The CDC Injury Center has been fully gutted. For the foreseeable future, we will not know what is killing us. This is proactive deregulation, as a lack of evidence of a problem can be used to justify the lack for more rules and policies.

Standards is a new series from Everything is Public Health, where we examine all the rules and regulations keeping us safe and healthy, and the deregulation movement working to destroy them.

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Regulations are written in blood. Whose blood are we using?

Do you like clean water? Do you think dumping raw sewage into rivers and ocean is a good idea? The deregulation movement is targeting clean water, and they are using the courts to do it.

Standards is a new series from Everything is Public Health, where we examine all the rules and regulations keeping us safe and healthy, and the deregulation movement working to destroy them.

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Regulations are written in blood. Whose blood are we using?

Welcome to Standards, a new series from Everything is Public Health where we examine all the rules and regulations keeping us safe and healthy, and the deregulation movement working to destroy them.

The current fascist administration is slashing food safety guardrails. It will cost us.

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What is universal healthcare? What is single payer? And what does Luigi have to do with this?

Call your representatives: https://5calls.org/

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The skies at night is too damn bright. That's bad for all involved. Also, car headlights are way too bright.

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Trash collection is a critical public service, though the real problem is how much trash we generate in the first place.

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The last time an autocratic government made policy decisions based on pseudoscience, millions of people died. America is on the precipice of doing the same.

Policy must be based on science.

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