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"Trump vs. Birds: Proposed Budget Eliminates Critical Research Programs"

"Two federal programs that experts consider indispensable for bird research and conservation in the United States could be eliminated under the Trump administration’s proposed budget for 2026."

Source: The Revelator, 06/18/2025

"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

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

EPA Says Power Plant Carbon Emissions Aren’t Dangerous. Scientists Disagree.

The Trump EPA on Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution. The Associated Press asked 30 different scientists, experts in climate, health and economics, about the scientific reality behind this proposal. Nineteen of them responded, all saying that the proposal was scientifically wrong and many of them called it disinformation.

Source: AP, 06/12/2025

Homeless Are The Group Most Vulnerable To Heat-Related Illnesses By Far

"Last summer, Taylor Weckstein was driving around rural New Mexico in a van delivering medical care to the homeless in the sweltering heat. The Harvard Medical School graduate came across people with severe dehydration, kidney disease and third-degree burns from being seared by the pavement, she recalled."

Source: Washington Post, 06/10/2025

UN Ocean Summit Opens In France As U.S. Government Scientists Stay Away

"World leaders, scientists and officials gathered on Monday to open the third United Nations Ocean Conference and launch a global appeal to save the world's oceans, which scientists say are in bad health." "Glaringly absent are U.S. scientific agencies like NASA and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Their scientists weren't allowed to attend the summit, say organizers."

Source: NPR, 06/10/2025

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