These Everyday Toxics May Be Hurting Pregnant Women and Their Babies
"PFAS, industrial chemicals used to waterproof jackets and grease-proof fast-food containers, may disrupt pregnancy with lasting effects."
Source: NYTimes, 09/24/2020
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Nearly 40 Dem Senators Call For Climate Change Questions In Debates
"Almost 40 Democratic senators wrote to the Commission on Presidential Debates on Wednesday urging questions focused on climate change to be included in the presidential debates."
Source: The Hill, 09/24/2020
"Wildfires: Torched Towns Beset By Poisoned Water"
"After a wildfire ripped through central California last month, residents in the Riverside Grove neighborhood in the Santa Cruz Mountains discovered another danger: contaminated water coursing through their pipes."
Source: E&E News, 09/24/2020
"EPA Rejects Its Own Findings That a Pesticide Harms Children’s Brains"
"The Trump administration has rejected scientific evidence linking the pesticide chlorpyrifos to serious health problems, directly contradicting federal scientists’ conclusions five years ago that it can stunt brain development in children."
Source: NYTimes, 09/24/2020
"China's Carbon Neutral Pledge Could Curb Global Warming by 0.3°C"
"President Xi Jinping’s pledge that China will achieve carbon neutrality before 2060 is the most significant climate policy move for years and, if achieved, could curb likely global warming by 0.2-0.3 Celsius this century, researchers said."
Source: Reuters, 09/24/2020
"In Arkansas, Backlash Against Pesticide Regulation Gets Personal"
"Twice in the past two months, vandals have struck Terry Fuller's farm, destroying tractor engines and burning stacks of hay. Each attack came immediately after Fuller appeared before Arkansas's state legislature on behalf of a state agency that's investigating farmers suspected of illegally using a herbicide called dicamba. Fuller doesn't think it's a coincidence."
Source: NPR, 09/24/2020
"New Mexico Objects To License For Nuclear Fuel Storage Plan"
"The state of New Mexico is strongly objecting to federal nuclear regulators’ preliminary recommendation that a license be granted to build a multibillion-dollar storage facility for spent nuclear fuel from commercial power plants around the U.S."
Source: AP, 09/24/2020
Antarctic Ice Melt Will Raise Sea Level By 2.5 Metres Even Under Paris
"Melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will cause sea level rises of about two and a half metres around the world, even if the goals of the Paris agreement are met, research has shown."
Source: Guardian, 09/24/2020
Pebble Exec Resigns After Being Caught On Tape Boasting Of His GOP Ties
"Mining executive Tom Collier, who boasted in secretly taped conversations that he had leveraged his ties to Republican officials to advance a controversial project in Alaska, resigned Wednesday."
Source: Washington Post, 09/24/2020
"Calif. To Ban Sale Of New Gas-Powered Cars In 2035 Under Newsom Order"
"California will ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars to combat climate change starting in 2035, a move that could help reshape the nation’s automobile market and its output of greenhouse gases."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 09/24/2020
