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"Administration Seeks to Restrict Antibiotics in Livestock" [1]

"The Obama administration announced Monday that it would seek to ban many routine uses of antibiotics in farm animals in hopes of reducing the spread of dangerous bacteria in humans."
Agriculture [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: NYTimes [5], 07/14/2009

Senate Votes To Give FDA Regulatory Power Over Tobacco [6]

"The tobacco-control movement celebrated another milestone yesterday as the U.S. Senate easily passed a bill giving the government unprecedented power over the making and marketing of tobacco products."
Health [7]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer [8], 06/12/2009
October 30, 2026

DEADLINE: IWMF Lauren Brown Fellowship [9]

Applications are officially open for the 2026 Lauren Brown Fellowship! Created in memory of Lauren Alix Brown, a founding editor at Quartz Media and a dedicated mentor to emerging journalists, the fellowship provides reporting grants and professional development opportunities to reporters from underrepresented backgrounds. Deadline: Oct. 30, 2026. 

Workshops and Fellowships [10]
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National (U.S.) [4]

Fake Caroline [12]

"Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now?"

Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [11]
Technology [14]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
International [15]
Source: Columbia Journalism Review [16], 10/09/2026

Pro-Oil-And-Gas Group Tracks Journalists, First Nations And Enviros [17]

"New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil-and-gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change"

Activism [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [21]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
International [15]
Canada [22]
Source: The Narwhal [23], 10/09/2026

Lawsuit Seeks Answers on EPA’s Abandoned CAFO Pollution Panel [24]

"US regulators are illegally withholding records related to the disbanding of a panel set up by the Biden administration to address water pollution from factory farms, according to a lawsuit filed last week."

Agriculture [2]
Conflict/Corruption [25]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [27]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [28]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: The New Lede [29], 10/09/2026

Trump Exempts Oil Drilling In Arctic Reserve From Environmental Reviews [30]

"The Trump administration Thursday announced it would exempt some Arctic oil and gas exploration activities from environmental reviews."

Energy & Fuel [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [28]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Alaska and Hawaii [31]
Source: The Hill [32], 10/09/2026

NIH Revives Network To Study Emerging Diseases, But With New Restrictions [33]

"Ban on hunting for new viruses in wildlife is at odds with program’s mission, researchers say"

Climate Change [34]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Science [35]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: Science [36], 10/09/2026

The U.S. Public Is Losing Its Say on Environmental Policy [37]

"Federal agencies have long been required to seek public comment when writing new regulations or approving large projects, from highways to data centers. The Trump administration is systematically undercutting that process, stifling public input while skirting federal laws."

Activism [18]
Climate Change [34]
Conflict/Corruption [25]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [21]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: Yale Environment 360 [39], 10/09/2026

Ex-Trump Officials Find New Jobs In Venezuela’s Lucrative Oil Industry [40]

"Three days after Michael Jensen left his job as the top Trump White House official for Latin America policy in late May, he boarded a private jet with an American crypto tycoon scouting oil deals in Venezuela, where a U.S. military raid last January had removed President Nicolás Maduro and installed a compliant government."

Conflict/Corruption [25]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [13]
People & Population [21]
Technology [14]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
South America [41]
Source: Washington Post [42], 10/09/2026

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