Explosion at La. Oil Plant Leaves Black Community Coated in Toxic Fallout
"As oily rain fell on Roseland, where 90% of kids live in poverty, the Trump administration is considering gutting chemical-disaster safeguards."
Source: Capital B, 09/04/2025
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"How Mass Emails Eroded Support For A North Carolina Pipeline"
"Williams Cos. went online to seek local backing for its Transco expansion project, but the effort may have backfired."
Source: E&E News, 09/04/2025"Dem NRC Members Warn They Could Be Fired Over Safety Decisions"
"Democratic members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission told lawmakers Wednesday that it’s a possibility they could be fired by President Donald Trump at any moment for their regulatory decisions, while questioning recent White House executive orders to accelerate reactor design approvals."
Source: E&E News, 09/04/2025"Scientists May Have Identified a Culprit Behind Declining Amazon Rains"
"For decades, the dry season in the Amazon rainforest has been getting drier. A new study, published on Tuesday, found that about 75 percent of the decrease in rainfall is directly linked to deforestation."
Source: NYTimes, 09/04/2025"Wildfire Retardants Help Stop Fires — But Also Impact Ecosystems"
"In the rush to put out wildfires, hundreds of millions of litres of fire retardant are dropped on forests across North America. New research shows the effects they can have on water and ecosystems — especially when accidents happen"
Source: The Narwhal, 09/04/2025"Dozens of Scientists Call DOE Climate Report ‘Fundamentally Incorrect’"
"More than 85 climate scientists declared the Department of Energy’s new climate report unfit for policymaking in a comprehensive review released Tuesday. The DOE’s report cherry-picked evidence, lacked peer-reviewed studies to support its questioning of the detrimental effects of climate change in the U.S. and is “fundamentally incorrect,” the authors concluded."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/03/2025"Prominent Critic Of RFK Jr. Blocked From FDA Vaccine Committee"
"Paul Offit, a pediatrician who has sparred with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over childhood vaccination, has been blocked from participating in a vaccine advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration."
Source: Washington Post, 09/03/2025"Judges Say EPA Can Take Back Billions In Climate Grants"
"A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that EPA can terminate $20 billion in climate grants that was awarded to nonprofit groups last year."
Source: E&E News, 09/03/2025"EPA Plans To Dramatically Reduce Wetland Protection"
"The Trump administration will soon propose a new Clean Water Act rule that could eliminate federal protections for many wetlands across the U.S., according to an internal EPA presentation obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News."
Source: E&E News, 09/03/2025Chinese Mining Company Accused Of Covering Up Major Toxic Spill In Zambia
"A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic."
Source: AP, 09/03/2025Weather Service Union Sues Trump Over Order Ending Collective Bargaining
"Unions representing employees of the National Weather Service and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office sued President Trump on Tuesday over an executive order that sought to end employee rights to collectively bargain with the government."
Source: The Hill, 09/03/2025"Eyeing A Potential Future Tropical Storm In The Eastern Atlantic"
"A tropical wave located a few hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands on Tuesday morning was headed west at about 15 mph." "And in the Eastern Pacific, Tropical Storm Lorena is a heavy rain threat for Mexico, while Hurricane Kiko may pass close to Hawaii Sep. 10-11."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 09/03/2025"EPA Fires Some Staffers Who Signed Letter Critical of Leadership"
"The EPA on Friday terminated at least five of the roughly 140 employees who signed a public letter in June critical of the agency’s political leadership, according to the staffers’ union. At least 10 other tenured employees have gotten a notice of proposed removal, said Nicole Cantello, an EPA lawyer and president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 704."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/03/2025Despite Trump, US Scientists Continue Work on Key Global Climate Reports
"Even as the U.S. federal government rapidly retreats from science-based decision-making, adopts climate-damaging energy policies and disengages from international climate efforts, 46 American researchers have been chosen as authors for the upcoming three main global climate reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/03/2025"The Druids Oak Is 800 Years Old - Can It Help Save Tomorrow's Forests?"
"Dr Ed Pyne snips a leaf from the Druids Oak, an 800-year-old tree that has watched over this woodland in Buckinghamshire for centuries, enduring droughts, storms, heatwaves and more. "We know that this tree is a survivor," he says, taking a leaf sample for DNA testing."
Source: BBC News, 09/03/2025
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