"Radioactive Shadow Workers"
"The treatment of oil and gas field waste is a dirty industry’s dirtiest secret"
Source: Sierra, 04/01/2025
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CA Suspends Environmental Laws To Speed Rebuilding Of Utilities After Fires
"In a continued effort to expedite rebuilding after Los Angeles' devastating firestorms, Gov. Gavin Newsom this week suspended California environmental laws for utility providers working to reinstall key infrastructure."
Source: LA Times, 04/01/2025"Exclusive: Global Ad Giant WPP Shutters Sustainability-Focused Agency"
"Global ad giant WPP has closed AKQA Bloom, a Miami-based communications agency specialising in sustainability campaigns, according to an email to staff obtained by DeSmog, and merged its operations with parent agency AKQA."
Source: DeSmog, 04/01/2025"‘Forever Chemicals’ From Nearby Factory Found In Dust Of NC Homes: Study"
"Researchers have identified “forever chemicals” in household dust nearby a North Carolina factory — indicating that dust may be an additional source of exposure to these compounds."
Source: The Hill, 04/01/2025"Fumed Episode 4: Locked and Loaded"
"This season, two stubborn Texans try to salvage what’s left of their working-class community. That’s a problem, though, because they live in East Harris County, where the petrochemical industry calls the shots — and where pushing back can be dangerous."
"Set in Channelview, Texas, in the heart of the nation's petrochemical industry, Fumed follows Carolyn Stone and Greg Moss as they risk everything to fight for their community’s future."
Source: Public Health Watch, 04/01/2025Faith Leaders Push Back After EPA Head Slams Climate Action as ‘Religion’
"When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin made a defiant reference to “climate change religion” in order to justify a plan to roll back environmental protections, American faith leaders and scholars reacted with confusion, sadness and anger." "Jewish and Christian faith leaders responded to Lee Zeldin’s comments with “righteous anger” and called for policies that support a more just, livable world."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/01/2025"Trump’s Executive Order Targeted This Museum. Many Visitors Question Why."
"At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, visitors pushed back against the claim that the museum perpetuated anti-American ideology."
Source: Washington Post, 03/31/2025"Trump Admin Cancels Over $12B In Health Care Grants"
"The Trump administration is canceling billions of dollars in grant funding to state and local health departments without warning, throwing their programs into disarray."
Source: Axios , 03/31/2025"Memos: FEMA Blocked $10B In Disaster Aid"
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency has frozen nearly $10 billion in disaster aid for nonprofits including hospitals as it seeks to identify funding that could be used to help undocumented migrants, according to agency documents obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News."
Source: E&E News, 03/31/2025"How Trump’s Tariffs Could Brake EVs But Accelerate Tesla"
"The planned 25 percent tariff on imported automobiles is a gut punch for most electric vehicle makers, whose supply chains are rooted in China." "At the same time as tariffs wound the overall EV market, they could provide a window of opportunity for automakers that already produce EVs and batteries domestically and could beat competitors on price. The most likely winner is Tesla, analysts said, though other automakers could also benefit."
Source: E&E News, 03/31/2025"How Lee Zeldin Went From Environmental Moderate to Dismantling the E.P.A."
"He once talked about the need to fight climate change. Now, he embraces Elon Musk, lavishes praise on the president and strives to stand out in a MAGA world."
Source: NYTimes, 03/31/2025Trump Fires Green TVA Board Member Without Publicly Providing a Reason
"Michelle Moore was widely seen as the most progressive member of the body, which oversees the nation’s largest public power company."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/31/2025Some L.A. Homes Are Being Built To Resist Wildfires — And Some Aren't
"Homeowners in Los Angeles have started the long process of rebuilding after the destructive wildfires in January. Some are constructing homes that are much less likely to burn when the next wildfire hits." "Still, thousands of other homeowners in the urban center of Altadena are about to rebuild without wildfire-resistant materials, because they live outside a state-designated wildfire zone."
Source: NPR, 03/31/2025"Blue Ridge Parkway: Will "Take Years" For Some Areas To Be Repaired"
"While repairs to storm-battered sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway are underway, it will "take years" to repair some of the damage, according to the National Park Service."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 03/31/2025"Fossil Fuel Companies Get Direct Email Line To Trump For Exemption Requests"
"Donald Trump’s administration has offered fossil fuel companies an extraordinary opportunity to evade air pollution rules by simply emailing the US president to ask him to exempt them."
Source: Guardian, 03/28/2025
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