"Federal scientists at EPA, the Interior Department and other agencies are reporting political interference with their work, requests to remove 'climate change' from research and declining staff levels, a new survey of government employees said."
SEJ and IJNR invite journalist attendees of SEJ's 28th annual conference in Flint to apply for the expenses-paid post-conference tour, October 7-10, 2018 to northern Michigan, where lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron come together. Deadline is Sep 21.
"The US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, has blamed environmentalists for California’s ferocious wildfires and claimed, contrary to scientific research, that climate change had “nothing to do” with them. Instead, he said the fires were worsened because of limits on logging."
"An influential conservative organization last week mirrored a broad debate within Republican circles over states' rights on environmental issues — it's OK sometimes, but not always."
"As global temperatures continue to rise, the number of mosquito "disease danger days" is increasing across much of the United States, representing a greater risk for transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, according to a new report."
"A new series on The Weather Channel delves into the places around the world where droughts and floods are forcing people to uproot."
"The small waterfront town of Scituate, Massachusetts, has been through a lot this year. One of the parts of the country hardest hit by the four nor’easters that blew through the East Coast in March, Scituate saw homes destroyed and huge piles of sand lifted up by the wind and waves and deposited on Inner Harbor Road, where the street sign was stuck half-buried.
"If Lyme has become so common, why isn’t there a vaccine for it? Well, here’s something you may not know: There used to be one, but it was taken off the market more than 15 years ago. And there’s only one new vaccine candidate in the pipeline."
"After an intense two-hour hearing, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller said he will continue reviewing evidence before ruling on a government motion to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to compel the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) to halt the flow of millions of gallons of raw sewage from the Tijuana River into the Pacific Ocean."
"RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, MI-- After a number of wells were found with high levels of PFAS, an investigation is being expanded to include nearly double the amount of wells initially tested in Richland Township, the Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services Department said."
"Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's legacy took another hit last week as a federal court ordered EPA to ban a heavily used farm chemical.
During the Obama administration, EPA said it would ban chlorpyrifos after health assessments showed current uses posed dietary and drinking water risks to humans, especially children. But Pruitt reversed the proposed ban in March 2017, declaring that the agency was returning to "sound science."
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/federal-agencies-scientists-report-political-meddling-self-censorship
[2] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060094079
[3] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-sej-post-conference-tour-ijnr-north-americas-great-lakes
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/zinke-blame-wildfires-environmentalists-not-climate-change
[5] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/13/us-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-climate-change-environmentalists
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/gop-lauds-states-rights-why-it-against-calif-car-rule
[7] https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060093911
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/significant-rise-mosquito-disease-danger-days-us-report-warns
[9] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/significant-rise-in-mosquito-disease-danger-days-in-u-s-report-warns/
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-weather-channel-documenting-damage-climate-change
[11] https://www.fastcompany.com/90216558/how-the-weather-channel-is-documenting-the-damage-of-climate-change
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lyme-disease-spreading-fast-why-isn%E2%80%99t-there-vaccine
[13] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/health/lyme-disease-vaccine.html
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/judge-may-take-first-hand-look-border-sewage-dismissing-suit
[15] https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Judge-Wants-First-Hand-Look-at-Border-Sewage-Before-Dismissing-Suit-Against-IBWC-490776841.html
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pfas-investigation-expands-55-residential-wells-richland-township
[17] https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2018/08/pfas_investigation_expands_to.html
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/court-losses-pile-epa
[19] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060093967
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