"Two Senate Democrats introduced a bill Monday to set cybersecurity standards for water utilities — something Republicans and industry have long fought."
"The Trump administration plans to rescind an EPA rule requiring states to consider tribes’ rights to fish, hunt and gather wild plants when establishing water quality protections — a policy the administration argues went beyond the agency’s authority."
"In Nebraska, Blackshirt Feeders LP is building the country’s largest feedlot for 200,000 beef cattle on a square-mile slab of concrete."
"The nation’s top scientific body has removed a chapter on climate science from a reference manual for judges after an outcry from critics on the right, including President Trump."
"Donald Trump has signed an executive order with plans for sweeping changes to the childhood vaccination schedule that attempts to override the authority of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."
Catch a screening of an SEJ-supported feature documentary TO USE A MOUNTAIN at NYC's DCTV Firehouse Cinema in Chinatown this week, with Q&As w/ director Casey Carter. Winner of the 2025 Visions du Réel Special Jury Award, the film chronicles a people's history of resistance and stewardship when six rural American communities were marked as candidates to become a burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste.
"Wandering gliders are descended from some of the earliest known insects – and breed as one global population. ... Whenever we see a dragonfly zipping through the airspace and devouring tiny insects with aplomb, we can appreciate they are so timelessly effective that they have barely needed to tweak their way of life in 200m years."
"Mutual aid groups that started giving out PPEs during Covid are now loaning air purifiers and distributing masks to fume-addled communities"
"The solar energy industry-backed group that helped oust conservative Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles isn’t done making the case that you don’t mess with renewable energy."
"As regulations have reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions from vehicles and industry in recent years, smoke from climate-fueled wildfires is erasing air quality gains."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/cyberattacks-water-utilities-renew-dem-calls-regulations
[2] https://www.eenews.net/articles/frightening-cyberattacks-on-water-utilities-renew-calls-for-regulations/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-moves-rescind-biden-era-tribal-water-quality-rule
[4] https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-moves-to-rescind-biden-era-tribal-water-quality-rule/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/nebraska-feedlot-very-american-invention-pushed-extreme
[6] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09082026/blackshirt-building-nations-largest-beef-feedlot-in-nebraska/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/top-science-body-deletes-climate-chapter-judges-manual
[8] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/climate/national-academies-climate-chapter-judges.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4VA.Z5sz.TWAyw8Ag7aud&smid=url-share
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-signs-order-attempting-override-cdc-vaccine-schedule
[10] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measles
[11] https://www.sej.org/calendar/film-screening-use-mountain-nycs-dctv-firehouse-cinema
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/astonishing-dragonfly-migrates-further-any-other-insect
[13] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/08/fearless-and-quietly-astonishing-the-dragonfly-that-migrates-further-than-any-other-insect
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-clean-air-clubs-are-protecting-americans-wildfire-smoke
[15] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/09/us-wildfire-smoke-clean-air-clubs
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/what-s-next-after-solar-pac-s-win-against-ogles
[17] https://www.eenews.net/articles/whats-next-after-solar-pacs-win-against-ogles/
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wildfire-smoke-now-bigger-prenatal-threat-other-air-pollution
[19] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07082026/wildfire-smoke-pollution-prenatal-threat/
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[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=26
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=27
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=28
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=31
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=32
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