"As climate change drives more wildfires and makes the job more dangerous than ever, U.S. firefighters may finally receive long fought for medical benefits to deal with cancers and other work-related diseases".
"A U.S. House of Representatives committee on Wednesday approved a bill that seeks to invalidate a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) environmental review conducted as part of a deal to buy 50,000 mostly gas-powered next-generation delivery vehicles."
"Electricity prices are rising in much of the country at the same time that climate change is contributing to extreme heat and a high chance of blackouts this summer."
"Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee today called for a criminal investigation into former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, alleging that the Trump administration official and others engaged in a campaign finance “quid pro quo” with a politically connected Arizona developer."
"The U.S. Department of Interior released its investigative report Wednesday on the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative." "The findings show the federal Indian boarding school system consisted of at least 408 federal schools across 37 states and roughly 53 different schools had been identified with marked or unmarked burial sites".
"The sight of hundreds of starlings swooping and diving in unison at dusk is one of the wonders of nature. Scientists and naturalists have marvelled at how the birds make shape-shifting clouds, known as murmurations."
"About 20m acres of cropland in the United States may be contaminated from PFAS-tainted sewage sludge that has been used as fertilizer, a new report estimates."
"A new Justice Department directive ordering each of the nation’s 93 U.S. attorneys to designate an environmental justice coordinator will bring a sharper focus to the issue, former U.S. attorneys tell Bloomberg Law."
"More than 100 black vultures have been found dead near the Conowingo Dam since mid-April after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian flu, officials say."
"A new political action committee run by two former Trump administration officials is marking its territory in a disinformation-rich campaign against the Biden administration’s goal of conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030, known informally as “30x30.”
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