"Xavier Becerra Brings Environmental Justice to Forefront"
"Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services is the first state attorney general to create an environmental justice bureau."
Source: NYTimes, 12/08/2020
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Trump Admin Seeks To Allow Polar Bear Disturbance For Oil in ANWR
"The Trump administration on Monday proposed allowing companies searching for oil and gas deposits in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to disrupt polar bears living there."
Source: Reuters, 12/08/2020
"PFAS Chemical Associated With Severe Covid-19"
"Elevated levels of a PFAS compound were associated with more severe forms of Covid-19, according to a Danish study now undergoing peer review. The research, which involved 323 patients infected with the coronavirus, found that those who had elevated levels of a chemical called PFBA were more than twice as likely to have a severe form of the disease."
Source: The Intercept, 12/08/2020
House Passes Bill Banning Big Cat Ownership After Netflix 'Tiger King'
"The U.S. House passed a bill that prohibits people from owning big cats like lions and tigers, after Netflix released the documentary series “Tiger King.”"
Source: The Hill, 12/08/2020
Police Raid Home Of Fired Florida COVID-19 Data Whistleblower
"State police brandishing firearms Monday raided the Tallahassee home of Rebekah Jones, the former Department of Health data scientist who built the state's much-praised COVID-19 dashboard before being fired over what she said was refusing to "manipulate data.""
Source: Tallahassee Democrat, 12/08/2020
US Air Pollution Monitoring Network Falling Into Disrepair - GAO Report
"The U.S. air pollution monitoring network has fallen into disrepair after years of budget cuts and neglect, leaving tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to undetected bad air quality from events like wildfires to industrial pollution, the investigative arm of Congress said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 12/08/2020
Trump Admin Nixes Tighter Soot Rules, Despite Link to Covid Deaths
"The Trump administration on Monday declined to tighten controls on industrial soot emissions, disregarding an emerging scientific link between dirty air and Covid-19 death rates."
Source: NYTimes, 12/08/2020
Searching for Narrative in the Groundwater Where It Happens
A graduate field scientist-cum-multimedia storyteller trains her eye on the confounding challenges of western water, with award-winning student reporting on three family farms that face the draining of critical groundwater basins. Could land that drought makes untenable for farming be restored as habitat for endangered species? That, plus how the “ladder of abstraction” helped her tell the tale. The most recent entry in EJ Academy.
Grant Gives Reporter Time To Immerse in Sewage Story
The “underworld” of sewage treatment had fascinated one journalist for years. But it was only after winning a reporting grant that Christine Woodside had the luxury of spending dozens of hours to focus on how one old, malfunctioning plant left a local community appalled and angered. Woodside shares the details in the latest installment of SEJournal’s newest column, FEJ StoryLog.
Climate Change Policy Likely To Permeate Executive Under Biden
What will climate change policy look like under a Biden administration? If nothing else, it appears it will be broadly based across a wide range of executive branch operations. This week’s TipSheet walks you through the top 10 federal departments, agencies and spending centers and how they will pivot to focus on global warming.
