First, a few of the great pieces on EPA’s awful rule that claims to advance transparency but would devastate public health protections:

• Yvette Cabrera at Grist: Vulnerable communities face larger threats under EPA’s proposed science rule
• H. Holden Thorp, Magdalena Skipper, Veronique Kiermer, May Berenbaum, Deborah Sweet, and Richard Horton in Science: Joint statement on EPA proposed rule and public availability of data
• David Michaels and Bernard D. Goldstein at Salon: How EPA director Andrew Wheeler is using scientific transparency as a weapon
• Gretchen Goldman at Undark: Trump’s Attack on Science Is an Attack on Public Health
• Todd Sherer in The Hill: EPA to make regulatory decisions using questionable science

And some other recent pieces I recommend reading:

• Abigail Abrams in TIME: ‘We Are Grabbing Our Own Microphones’: How Advocates of Reproductive Justice Stepped Into the Spotlight
• Dani McClain in SELF: You’re Black and Pregnant. What Should Your Birth Plan Actually Look Like?
• Jose A. Del Real in the New York Times: They Grow the Nation’s Food, but They Can’t Drink the Water (and also check out Del Real’s companion piece about reporting this story)
• Juliana Morris, Vanessa Grubbs, Monica Hahn, & Stephen Richmond in the San Francisco Examiner: Abolish race-based medicine in kidney disease and beyond
• Ruth Hopkins in Teen Vogue: Mass Shootings Are Connected to America’s Legacy of Anti-Indigenous Violence
• Ben Guarino, Neena Satija, and Lena Sun in The Washington Post: Deadly measles outbreak hits children in Samoa after anti-vaccine fears