"The Trump administration is withdrawing a proposal to require cosmetic companies to test their talc-containing products for asbestos, according to a public notice Tuesday."
"As worry mounts about health risks from exposure to ‘forever chemicals,’ Virginia communities push for testing and limits for biosolids"
"A recent decision by President Donald Trump to deny disaster aid to electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost residents tens of millions of dollars."
"President Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Biden-era Clean Air Act regulations for two years."
"The Interior Department will skip the standard environmental analysis for its five-year offshore drilling plan, a break from the agency’s decadeslong practice."
"A Louisiana health official who ordered his health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations this past winter during a surge in influenza cases has been tapped to serve as the new No. 2 leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
"The Trump administration has crossed a key threshold in its campaign to toss a stricter air pollution standard for soot, in a move that threatens to erase one of the Biden administration’s core public health accomplishments."
This Journalism & Women Symposium fellowship is for early-career journalists and those new to the health beat who are eager to strengthen their health reporting skills. Open to US-based women and individuals who identify as women. Cash stipend, mentoring, training and more. Deadline: Dec 5, 2025.
Journalists looking to deepen their climate reporting and rethinking how to visualize climate will find new approaches and inspiration for making the invisible visible and connecting scientific discovery to the communities they serve in this webinar co-hosted by Metcalf Institute and Solutions Journalism Network. 3 p.m. ET.
Society of Environmental Journalists President Halle Parker (pictured, left) welcomes three new members to the board of directors and lauds three stalwarts who are departing, plus she shares why the results of the vote on proposed membership bylaw revisions matter for the future of SEJ. The new SEJ President’s Report.
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fda-yanks-proposal-requiring-talc-containing-cosmetics-test-asbestos
[2] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5622484-fda-talc-asbestos-testing-proposal-withdrawn/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/va-communities-resist-sewage-sludge-farm-land-pfas-concerns-grow
[4] https://virginiamercury.com/2025/11/24/virginia-communities-push-back-against-sewage-sludge-on-agricultural-land-as-pfas-concerns-grow/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/electricity-prices-jump-after-trump-rejects-disaster-aid-mich-utilities
[6] https://www.eenews.net/articles/electricity-prices-jump-after-trump-rejects-disaster-aid-for-michigan-utilities/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-exempts-coal-used-steelmaking-clean-air-act-rule
[8] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5620584-donald-trump-clean-air-act-coal-steel/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/interior-skips-nepa-analysis-offshore-drilling-expansion
[10] https://www.eenews.net/articles/interior-skips-nepa-analysis-for-offshore-drilling-expansion/
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/la-health-official-who-halted-state-vaccine-campaign-tapped-cdc-s-no-2
[12] https://wapo.st/4pvW7C8
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-scrap-lifesaving-soot-pollution-limit
[14] https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-to-scrap-lifesaving-soot-pollution-limit/
[15] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-jaws-health-reporting-fellowship
[16] https://www.sej.org/calendar/visualizing-science-turning-complex-climate-research-compelling-visual-narratives
[17] https://www.sej.org/publications/sej-presidents-report/welcoming-new-board-members-bylaws-revisions-approved
[18] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=8
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=6
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=7
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=10
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=11
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=12
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=13
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4878