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"Top CDC Covid Vaccine Adviser Quits After RFK Jr. Ended Recommendations" [1]

"A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after federal health officials rescinded long-standing recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women."

Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [6]
Science [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Washington Post [10], 06/05/2025
June 24, 2025

Mongabay Webinar: How To Cover Plastic Pollution [11]

This installment of Mongabay’s free webinar series for journalists will comprise a discussion with three experts for their insight on how to cover this pressing issue which experts are calling a global human health crisis. 8 am ET.

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Chemicals [13]
Environmental Health [2]
Health [4]
Journalism & Media [14]
Pollution [15]
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National (U.S.) [9]
International [16]

Deep Cuts Erode Basics Of US Public Health System, Threaten Worse To Come [17]

"Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee."

Consumer [18]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: AP [19], 06/04/2025

Analysis: Trump Administration Attacks Science, As Environment Suffers [20]

It’s not just scientists who are being lost to the new administration’s extensive firings of federal workers. A Backgrounder Analysis argues it’s the science itself. It’s happening at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but also across agencies that conduct research to protect health and the environment, whether around toxic chemicals or on the battleground of climate change science. A frank look at the reality and what’s being lost for journalists and the communities they serve.

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Chemicals [13]
Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [23]
Environmental Politics [3]
Environmental Studies [24]
Government [25]
Health [4]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Policy [26]
Science [7]
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"HHS Cancels Funding For Moderna To Develop Vaccines To Combat Bird Flu" [27]

"The Department of Health and Human Services is pulling millions of dollars it had committed to give Moderna to aid the effort to develop a vaccine to combat the bird flu in humans, the company announced Wednesday.

Environmental Politics [3]
Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [6]
Science [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Washington Post [28], 05/30/2025

Mapping Out Local PFAS Risk, As Federal Rules Waver [29]

As the Trump administration rolls back Biden-era rules limiting the presence of “forever chemicals” in drinking water, an updated data mapping tool helps pinpoint local angles on the PFAS story. The latest TipSheet outlines the basics on this class of widely used chemicals, their risks to humans and the challenges of regulating them, plus provides a half-dozen story ideas and questions to ask.

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Chemicals [13]
Consumer [18]
Health [4]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Policy [26]
Pollution [15]
Science [7]
Water & Oceans [31]
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"RFK Jr.’s MAHA Report Targets Food, Drug, Tech Industries: Key Takeaways" [32]

"The Trump administration issued its long-awaited Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission report Thursday, hammering various industries while deviating from mainstream science on key issues including farming practices, vaccinations and psychiatric medications."

Chemicals [13]
Consumer [18]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [15]
Science [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: The Hill [33], 05/23/2025

"China To Donate $500 Million To WHO, Stepping Into Gap Left By U.S." [34]

"China has pledged to give $500 million to the World Health Organization as the country is set to replace the United States as the group’s top state donor, expanding Beijing’s global influence in the wake of Washington’s retreat from international cooperation."

Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Government [25]
Health [4]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
International [16]
Asia [35]
Source: Washington Post [36], 05/22/2025

Environmental Justice Grants Disappear. Environmental Injustice Does Not [37]

Decades of effort to tackle the often-intractable problems of environmental injustice, supported in recent years by billions in funding, are now facing the knife under the Trump administration. The latest TipSheet provides a thumbnail history of government initiatives and why it matters, then offers a dozen story ideas and reporting resources to tell the story in your community.

SEJ Publication Types: 
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Topics on the Beat: 
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [3]
Government [25]
Health [4]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [6]
Policy [26]
Pollution [15]
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"Trump Taps MAHA Influencer For Surgeon General, Replacing First Pick" [39]

"The White House pulled the nomination of Janette Nesheiwat to be the surgeon general in favor of Casey Means, a key figure in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Government [25]
Health [4]
Journalism & Media [14]
Pollution [15]
Science [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Washington Post [40], 05/09/2025

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