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Calif. Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid and Toiling in Toxic Fields [9]

"State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
California [20]
Source: Capital & Main [21], 11/21/2025
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CDC Site Now Denies Scientific Conclusion That Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism [22]

"A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a number of public health and autism experts."

Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Health [24]
Journalism & Media [25]
People & Population [17]
Science [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [27], 11/21/2025
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"More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30" [28]

"More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organisations have participated at this year’s United Nations climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [29]
Environmental Politics [15]
Forests [30]
Journalism & Media [25]
People & Population [17]
Public [18]
International [31]
South America [32]
Source: DeSmog [33], 11/21/2025
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Trump DHS Makes Major Changes To Report It Ordered On FEMA Reforms: Sources [34]

"A draft of a much-anticipated report on reforms to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been whittled down in size, with recommendations compiled by a council appointed by the president slashed and amended by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s office, according to three people familiar with the developments."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [35]
Economy & Business [29]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [36]
People & Population [17]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [38], 11/21/2025
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"EPA Sees “Greater Uncertainty” With Paraquat Risk Factor, Seeks More Data" [39]

"New data is adding to regulatory concerns about potential human health risks from the weed killer paraquat, leading the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to seek more information from manufacturers of the pesticide."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [17]
Pollution [40]
Science [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The New Lede [41], 11/21/2025
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"With US Absent, China Asserts Itself at World’s Biggest Climate Summit" [42]

"On the opening day at COP30, the United Nations’ annual climate summit, the scene was emblematic of a shifting order. With the United States absent, all eyes were on China."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Politics [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [31]
Asia [44]
Source: Sierra [45], 11/21/2025
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"Conservation Leaders Unite to Oppose Steve Pearce BLM Nomination" [46]

"The Trump pick to lead the land management agency has ties to anti-government extremists"

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [47]
Economy & Business [29]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [48]
Wildlife [49]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Sierra [50], 11/21/2025
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An Alabama City Council OKs Rezoning for Big Data Center, Dividing Community [51]

"After the Bessemer City Council voted 5-2 to rezone nearly 700 acres of agricultural land for the “hyperscale” server farm, a dissenting council member said city officials who signed non-disclosure agreements weren’t being transparent with citizens."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [52]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [17]
Technology [53]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [54]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 11/21/2025
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Makah Tribe’s Treaty-Protected Whaling Rights Remain Blocked 2+ Decades Later [56]

"Despite the Makah Tribe’s success in getting a waiver to carry out their exclusive treaty right for whaling, the permitting process that had dragged on for over 20 years has now been effectively delayed another year and a half – because of bogged-down federal bureaucracy. The Makah Tribe is the only one in the Lower 48 that has an exclusive treaty right to whaling."

Biodiversity [47]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Fish & Fisheries [57]
Food [58]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [37]
Wildlife [49]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northwest (OR WA) [59]
Source: ICT [60], 11/21/2025
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"How to Make TikTok Journalism Not Cringey? The EU Might Have an Answer." [61]

"ENTR, a European Union–funded media project, brings together Gen Z journalists to produce social-media-first news."

Activism [62]
Consumer [23]
Journalism & Media [25]
People & Population [17]
Public [18]
International [31]
Europe [63]
Source: CJR [64], 11/21/2025
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"Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths" [65]

"Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3 million more deaths globally, analysis finds. Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change."

"New advances in environmental science are providing a detailed understanding of the human costs of the Trump administration’s approach to climate change.
Climate Change [12]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
People & Population [17]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [18]
International [31]
Source: ProPublica [66], 11/20/2025
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India Delays Climate Pledge, Pressures Rich Nations On Funding At COP30 [67]

"India is unlikely to submit its climate pledge before the end of the annual United Nations climate summit, raising questions about how the world’s most populous nation can influence others on confronting climate change. Experts say the delay may be a sign of India’s displeasure with a lack of progress toward funding global climate priorities. However, this can also hurt its ability to lead at the climate talks in Brazil."

Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Forests [30]
Pollution [40]
Public [18]
International [31]
Source: AP [68], 11/20/2025
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"Trump Refused To Send Disaster Aid To Chicago After 2 Devastating Storms" [69]

"President Donald Trump, who has assailed Illinois’ governor and its largest city, denied disaster aid to thousands of Chicago residents even though his administration documented extraordinary damage from two major storms this summer, records obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News show."

Climate Change [12]
Consumer [23]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [52]
People & Population [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [70]
Source: E&E News [71], 11/20/2025
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"Spread Of Data Centers Raises Risk Of Winter Outages, Grid Monitor Warns" [72]

"More than a dozen states where data centers are spreading fastest could face electric power emergencies under extreme conditions this winter, the grid’s security monitor warned Tuesday."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [35]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Infrastructure [52]
People & Population [17]
Planning & Growth [73]
Technology [53]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [74], 11/20/2025
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"Calif. Farms Applied Millions Of Pounds Of Pfas To Key Crops, Study Finds" [75]

"California farms applied an average of 2.5m lb of Pfas “forever chemicals” per year on cropland from 2018 to 2023, or a total of about 15m lb, a new review of state records shows."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Food [58]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [40]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
California [20]
Source: Guardian [76], 11/20/2025
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