"A Warning From a California Marine Heat Wave" [1]
"An extreme heat wave off California’s coast seemed like an anomaly 10 years ago. But as the ocean warms, the catastrophe may be a glimpse of the future."

"An extreme heat wave off California’s coast seemed like an anomaly 10 years ago. But as the ocean warms, the catastrophe may be a glimpse of the future."
"The long and winding regulatory road for a pesticide known to be harmful to developing babies took another turn on Monday as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it was planning to only partially ban the insecticide chlorpyrifos in farming."
"Lawmakers are navigating partisan divides as they seek to pass a bipartisan disaster aid bill by the end of the year."
"A handful of countries should be held legally responsible for the ongoing impacts of climate change, representatives of vulnerable states have told judges at the international court of justice (ICJ)."

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"Choosing Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH signals return to controversial and scientifically questionable health policies"
"President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to slap new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China could inflate the cost of producing and buying energy in almost all forms, possibly sending gasoline prices surging and the U.S. energy industry into a tailspin."
"Exactly where Brooke Rollins stands on agricultural policy is unclear, but her positions on fossil fuels and climate change are explicit."
"President-elect Donald J. Trump had already succeeded in rattling the nation’s public health and biomedical establishment by the time he announced on Tuesday that he had picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health. But amid growing fears of a deadly bird flu pandemic, perhaps no one was more rattled than experts in infectious disease."
"The refusal by President-elect Donald J. Trump’s team to sign a transition agreement with the General Services Administration means that, despite the team’s pledges to abide by several transparency customs of presidential handovers, it isn’t legally bound to follow through on its promises."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/warning-california-marine-heat-wave
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/climate/california-farallones-ocean-warming.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ek4.bzzp.0QSyeLISm-pD&smid=url-share
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-takes-partial-step-ban-chlorpyrifos-move-called-unconscionable
[4] https://www.thenewlede.org/2024/12/epa-takes-partial-step-to-ban-chlorpyrifos-in-a-move-called-unconscionable/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/partisan-divides-complicate-push-disaster-aid
[6] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5005562-disaster-aid-congress-partisan-divides/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/handful-countries-responsible-climate-crisis-top-court-told
[8] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/02/handful-of-countries-responsible-for-climate-crisis-icj-court-told
[9] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/sej2025-annual-conference-arizona-april-23-26
[10] https://conference2025.sej.org/coverage/
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[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-pick-us-health-agency-proposed-herd-immunity-during-covid
[15] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/26/nih-trump-bhattacharya-covid
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/what-trump-s-tariffs-could-mean-american-energy
[17] https://www.eenews.net/articles/what-trumps-tariffs-could-mean-for-american-energy/
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-agriculture-secretary-will-have-reckon-climate-change
[19] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26112024/new-agriculture-secretary-brooke-rollins-fossil-fuel-ally/
[20] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-will-trump-s-covid-contrarians-handle-next-pandemic
[21] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/us/politics/trump-health.html
[22] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-rejection-transition-deal-adds-wrinkle-its-transparency-pledges
[23] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/us/politics/trump-transition-transparency.html
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