Environmental Health

"CDC Virus Expert Resigns After RFK Jr.’s Purge Of Vaccine Advisers"

"A senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who oversaw respiratory virus surveillance has resigned and raised concerns about the future of vaccine policy as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upends the agency’s long-standing approach to immunization."

Source: Washington Post, 06/17/2025

Fourth Power Plant Approved in Newark Despite Residents' Tearful Protests

"The Ironbound neighborhood in Newark, N.J., has two distinct sections: an immigrant-rich area of rowhouses, ethnic restaurants and shops, and a clogged industrial zone with three power plants, the state’s largest incinerator and biggest sewage facility, a slew of factories and a near-constant parade of diesel trucks."

Source: Inside Climate News, 06/17/2025

Trump EPA Is Telling Some Staff To Stop Policing The Oil And Gas Industry

"The Environmental Protection Agency has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest — a region plagued by a legacy of pollution — to stop enforcing violations against fossil fuel companies, multiple sources told CNN."

Source: CNN, 06/17/2025

Tainted Water, Tainted Power — Inside a Hog-Farm Empire

A powerful politician and his family’s groundwater-polluting agricultural business were the focus of an award-winning series that delved into the intersection of politics, power, privilege and regulatory capture. In the latest Inside Story Q&A, journalist Yanqi Xu discusses how the reporting uncovered deep and unexpected impacts on small town economies, water quality and the living conditions of the hog farms’ neighbors.

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Researcher Resigns Citing Tulane Censorship On Pollution Racial Disparity

"A Tulane University researcher resigned Wednesday, citing censorship from university leaders who had warned that her advocacy and research exposing the Louisiana petrochemical industry’s health impacts and racial disparities in hiring had triggered blowback from donors and elected officials."

Source: AP, 06/16/2025

Popular NOAA Climate Website Will Be Hobbled, After Trump Cuts Entire Staff

"A widely used federal website that publishes information about changing weather patterns, drought conditions, agricultural best-practices, atmospheric changes and greenhouse gas emissions will no longer be updated, according to current and former employees familiar with the site. The website will stop publishing new content on July 1."

Source: NPR, 06/16/2025

Trump Cuts EPA Grants to Address Health Risks on Hopi and Navajo Reservations

"Red Feather, which works to improve housing on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, is just one of hundreds of groups that have had grants meant to help disadvantaged communities terminated by the Trump administration." 

Source: Inside Climate News, 06/16/2025

Chesapeake Bay Health Slips in 2025 Report Card Amid Persistent Challenges

"The Chesapeake Bay’s health has taken a downturn, according to a new report card, with the estuary relegated from a “C+” to a “C” as climate extremes and runaway pollution limit restoration efforts."

Source: Inside Climate News, 06/16/2025

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