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"The Smoke From Canada’s Wildfires May Be Even More Toxic Than Usual" [1]

"A legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke."

Source: Grist [2], 06/09/2025

"Pesticide Report Led By RFK Jr. Draws Fire From Agrichemical Industry" [3]

"A new White House report linking pesticides to children’s health concerns is drawing backlash from farm groups and support from environmental advocates."

Source: Investigate Midwest [4], 06/09/2025

"Electricity Prices Are Surging. The GOP Megabill Could Push Them Higher." [5]

"The cost of electricity is rising across the country, forcing Americans to pay more on their monthly bills and squeezing manufacturers and small businesses that rely on cheap power. And some of President Trump’s policies risk making things worse, despite his promises to slash energy prices, companies and researchers say."

Source: NYTimes [6], 06/09/2025

"Trump Approves Expansion of Scandal-Hit Coal Mine" [7]

"The Trump administration on Friday greenlighted the expansion of a scandal-hit underground coal mine in Montana, one of the nation’s largest, cutting short a federal environmental review and putting into action a key element of President Trump’s plan to revive America’s coal industry."

Source: NYTimes [8], 06/09/2025

"What Is Bottom Trawling And How Does It Harm Oceans?" [9]

"Governments are meeting in France to discuss how to protect oceans from harmful fishing practices, like bottom trawling."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [10], 06/09/2025

Big Bill Hands Public Land Near Minnesota Wilderness To Foreign Mining Company [11]

"A little-known provision of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill would open thousands of acres of public lands at the edge of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters wilderness to a foreign-owned mining company."

Source: Public Domain [12], 06/09/2025

"Dying Before Their Day In Court – Syngenta Paraquat Litigation Drags On" [13]

"In the nationwide legal battle between pesticide maker Syngenta and thousands of people suffering from Parkinson’s disease that they blame on exposure to paraquat weed killer, plaintiffs are dying faster than they can get to trial, according to a court filing made this week by lawyers frustrated by repeated delays in the cases."

Source: The New Lede [14], 06/09/2025

Battle Over Gas Power Facility Generates Months-Long Investigation [15]

A private social media message piqued Arizona Republic reporter Joan Meiners’ interest in rural retirees’ efforts to block construction of a gas-fired peaker plant next to their homes. Her year-long, grant-funded investigation in 2024 uncovered questionable local government actions and utility executive motives, and concluded with action against the facility. Read Meiners’ account of how rural Arizonans became unlikely climate activists, in the latest FEJ Storylog.

Will DOGE Evaporate Crucial Water Data? [16]

Streamflow data gathered by thousands of U.S. Geological Survey gauges helps track the country’s floods and droughts. But it may be lost if the Trump administration follows up on a decision not to renew leases of USGS water science centers that read the gauges and disseminate the measurements. Reporter’s Toolbox on the value of this database and the risk of its loss.

#SEJSpotlight: María Gabriela Ensinck, Freelance Journalist [17]

Meet SEJ member María Gabriela Ensinck! Gabi is an award-winning Argentine journalist in print, radio and online media, covering science, health, environment, innovation and business.

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