"Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War"
"Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat."
Source: NYTimes, 12/01/2025
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"New US National Parks Fees For International Visitors Draw Scrutiny"
"Environmentalists and former agency employees warn of increased workloads for park employees at a time when park staffing is already low." "U.S. citizenship will determine how expensive it is to access America’s national parks beginning next year, the Interior Department announced yesterday."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/01/2025EPA Urged To Ban Spraying Of Antibiotics On Food Crops Amid Resistance Fears
"A new legal petition filed by a dozen public health and farm worker groups demands the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stop allowing farms to spray antibiotics on food crops in the US because they are probably causing superbugs to flourish and sickening farm workers."
Source: Guardian, 12/01/2025"EPA To Scrap Lifesaving Soot Pollution Limit"
"The Trump administration has crossed a key threshold in its campaign to toss a stricter air pollution standard for soot, in a move that threatens to erase one of the Biden administration’s core public health accomplishments."
Source: E&E News, 11/26/2025La. Health Official Who Halted State Vaccine Campaign Tapped As CDC’s No. 2
"A Louisiana health official who ordered his health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations this past winter during a surge in influenza cases has been tapped to serve as the new No. 2 leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Source: Washington Post, 11/26/2025"Interior Skips NEPA Analysis For Offshore Drilling Expansion"
"The Interior Department will skip the standard environmental analysis for its five-year offshore drilling plan, a break from the agency’s decadeslong practice."
Source: E&E News, 11/26/2025"Trump Exempts Coal Used In Steelmaking From Clean Air Act Rule"
"President Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Biden-era Clean Air Act regulations for two years."
Source: The Hill, 11/26/2025Electricity Prices Jump After Trump Rejects Disaster Aid For Mich. Utilities
"A recent decision by President Donald Trump to deny disaster aid to electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost residents tens of millions of dollars."
Source: E&E News, 11/26/2025"Va. Communities Resist Sewage Sludge On Farm Land As PFAS Concerns Grow
"As worry mounts about health risks from exposure to ‘forever chemicals,’ Virginia communities push for testing and limits for biosolids"
Source: Virginia Mercury, 11/26/2025FDA Yanks Proposal Requiring Talc-Containing Cosmetics To Test For Asbestos
"The Trump administration is withdrawing a proposal to require cosmetic companies to test their talc-containing products for asbestos, according to a public notice Tuesday."
Source: The Hill, 11/26/2025"With Turkey as Next COP Host, Climate Talks Again Go to Authoritarians"
"United Nations climate officials announced Thursday that Turkey will host the 2026 Conference of Parties, COP31, making it the fourth time in five years that the climate talks are held in a country under authoritarian rule."
Source: Newsweek, 11/25/2025"Some Park Rangers Are Still Owed Pay After the Shutdown"
"Federal workers were guaranteed back pay once the government reopened. Some at the National Park Service are still waiting."
Source: NYTimes, 11/25/2025Tracking Down Orphaned, Possibly Leaking, Oil And Gas Wells In The Parks
"An unknown number of abandoned oil and gas wells dot the National Park System, but the one at Cuyahoga Valley National Park revealed itself with a whistling plume of colorless, odorless, and potentially lethal, methane gas."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 11/25/2025As NYC Builds Seawalls, This Queens Community Feels Left Behind
"A decade after city officials promised to cut flood risks in the Edgemere neighborhood, critics say it remains just as vulnerable."
Source: Floodlight, 11/25/2025"Fighting for ‘The Right to Night’ Under Starry, Rural Skies"
"Industrialization in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has some residents pushing for protection of the region’s celestial splendor."
Source: NYTimes, 11/25/2025
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