Environmental Health

"USDOT Seeks Comment on Pipeline and Hazmat Regulatory Relief"

"The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today announced that the agency is seeking public comment on two Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to reduce regulatory burdens imposed on the energy sector."

Source: Pipeline Technology Journal, 06/05/2025

"Lutnick Says Hurricane Center Is Fully Staffed Despite Key Vacancies"

"Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a congressional committee that the US National Hurricane Center was fully staffed even though key positions are going unfilled as hurricane season begins."

Source: Bloomberg, 06/05/2025

"Top CDC Covid Vaccine Adviser Quits After RFK Jr. Ended Recommendations"

"A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after federal health officials rescinded long-standing recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women."

Source: Washington Post, 06/05/2025
June 24, 2025

Mongabay Webinar: How To Cover Plastic Pollution

This installment of Mongabay’s free webinar series for journalists will comprise a discussion with three experts for their insight on how to cover this pressing issue which experts are calling a global human health crisis. 8 am ET.

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"Why Trump’s Push For ‘Gold-Standard Science’ Has Researchers Alarmed"

"Many scientists fear the Trump administration’s new standard means putting political appointees in charge, which could undercut independent research." 

Source: Washington Post, 06/04/2025

Deep Cuts Erode Basics Of US Public Health System, Threaten Worse To Come

"Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee."

Source: AP, 06/04/2025

Fearing Radioactive Waste, Pa. Community Fights to Stop Landfill Re-Opening

"For years, residents of Grove City, Pennsylvania, have fought to stop a decades-old landfill from resuming operations in their town. They were worried the landfill would make legacy pollution in the area worse. But in 2022, information about the kind of waste the landfill would accept raised new fears."

Source: Inside Climate News, 06/04/2025

"White House Proposes Shutting Down Chemical Safety Agency"

"An independent agency that investigates chemical disasters — including fatal fires and explosions at chemical plants and oil refineries nationwide — would shutter by October 2026 under little-noticed language in White House budget documents released Friday."

Source: Washington Post, 06/04/2025

"Trump Touts US Steel-Nippon Steel Deal That Could Result In More Coal"

"The Japanese steelmaker has pledged to extend the life of U.S. Steel’s dirty blast furnaces if Trump greenlights a deal, potentially locking in decades of pollution."

Source: Canary Media, 06/03/2025

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