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"Chemical Industry Asks Trump for Exemption From Pollution Limits" [1]

"Two chemical industry groups are asking President Trump for a complete exemption to free their factories from new limits on hazardous air pollution."

Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [14], 04/07/2025

How the Potomac Imparts the Capital’s Story [15]

The Potomac is one of the most prominent rivers in the United States, a defining ecological feature of Washington, D.C., at the same time it reveals the city’s history of racial inequality and disenfranchisement. Writer, historian, educator and herbalist Charlotte Taylor Fryar recounts that tale in her ambitious “Potomac Fever,” reviewed in the latest BookShelf by contributing editor Jennifer Weeks, herself a Washington native.

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [16]
Topics on the Beat: 
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [18]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [19]
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Public [12]

After Outcry, Brazil Supreme Court Nixes Mining On Indigenous Lands [20]

"Brazil’s Supreme Court backed down and withdrew its proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic activities from a controversial bill that critics say violates the Constitution."

Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Forests [21]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [10]
Public [12]
South America [22]
Source: Mongabay [23], 04/04/2025

Deadly Mosquito-Borne Illness Rises As US Cuts All Climate-Health Funding [24]

"Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, issued an urgent alert about dengue fever, a painful and sometimes deadly mosquito-borne illness common in tropical and subtropical parts of the world. Some 3,500 travelers from the United States contracted dengue abroad in 2024, according to the CDC, an 84 percent increase over 2023."

Climate Change [25]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Government [27]
People & Population [10]
Science [28]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Grist [29], 04/04/2025

CDC Fires Staff Working On Childhood Lead Exposure And Cancer Clusters [30]

"Staff members who fought childhood lead exposure and those who worked on cancer clusters were among those fired from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a now former employee told The Hill."

Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [25]
Consumer [4]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Science [28]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [31], 04/04/2025

Firing National Park and Forest Workers Stresses Nearby Communities [32]

"As government agencies slash staff managing federal lands, rural populations dependent on outdoor tourism face mounting economic and environmental risks that are trickling down from the cuts."

Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Politics [8]
Forests [21]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 04/03/2025

Calif., 23 States Sue Trump HHS Over Cuts To CDC Infectious-Disease Funds [35]

"California and a coalition of other states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its plans to cut billions of dollars in federal public health grants designed to make states more resilient to infectious disease, and accused the administration of overreaching its authority by clawing back funding already allocated by Congress."

Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Health [36]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: LA Times [37], 04/03/2025

HHS Fires Entire Staff That Helps Low-Income People Afford Heat, AC [38]

"The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has fired all of the workers in its program that seeks to help low-income Americans pay their energy bills. Everyone who had been working on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) was let go on Tuesday, according to now-former employee Andrew Germain."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [25]
Consumer [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Food [40]
Infrastructure [41]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [10]
Wildlife [42]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [43], 04/03/2025

"Myanmar Just Had ‘The Big One.’ It Should Be A Wake-Up Call For California." [44]

"The famed San Andreas Fault in California is nearly identical to the one that caused the destructive tremor in Myanmar, and is also overdue for an earthquake."

Disasters [26]
Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Health [6]
Infrastructure [41]
People & Population [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [45]
Source: Washington Post [46], 04/02/2025

"How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt" [47]

"A faith-based Indiana group and heating contractors in Maine are among hundreds of businesses and organizations stymied by EPA’s attempt to claw back $20 billion of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund."

Climate Change [25]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Infrastructure [41]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [10]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [48]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [49], 04/02/2025

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