EPA Warns Toxic Formaldehyde Presents An Unreasonable Risk Of Injury
"The agency’s final risk assessment for formaldehyde jump-starts the process to address the risk posed by the cancer-causing chemical"
Source: Independent, 01/03/2025
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Wyoming Will Sell Square Mile Of State Land To Join Grand Teton National Park
"Wyoming will sell a 1-square-mile (2.6-square-kilometer) parcel of pristine land bordering Grand Teton National Park to the U.S. government for $100 million after Gov. Mark Gordon signed off on a deal Friday that ends the state’s longstanding threats to unload it to a developer."
Source: AP, 01/03/2025"Trump Readies Day One Energy Offensive"
"The incoming president has detailed plans to quickly reverse Biden’s policies, expand fossil fuel production and declare a national energy emergency."
Source: E&E News, 01/03/2025"Biden To Create Two National Monuments In California Honoring Tribes"
"President Joe Biden plans to create two new national monuments in California in the coming days, according to two people briefed on the announcement, aiming to cement his environmental legacy before President-elect Donald Trump takes office."
Source: Washington Post, 01/03/2025"Undocumented People Are Among Most Vulnerable To Climate-Fueled Disasters"
"Carmen, her husband and three children were sound asleep in their western North Carolina home when she heard her phone ring that late September morning. It was her brother-in-law alerting the family to downed trees, powerlines and homes destroyed by historic rain and strong winds from Hurricane Helene."
Source: NPR, 01/03/2025"Biden to Ban More Offshore Oil Drilling Before Trump Arrives"
"President Joe Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections during his final weeks in the White House."
Source: Bloomberg, 01/03/2025Elevated Levels of Radium Found in Western Pennsylvania Freshwater Mussels
"Researchers detected increased radioactivity in mussels downstream of oil and gas wastewater discharge points, raising concerns about effects up the food chain."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/03/2025Shrimper’s Crusade Pays Big Dividends on Remote Stretch of Texas Coastline
"Few men still fish for a living on the Gulf Coast of Texas. The work is hard and pay is meager. In the hearts of rundown seaside towns, dilapidated harbors barely recall the communities that thrived here generations ago."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/03/2025Judge Won't Dismiss Suit Claiming Poland Spring Water Isn't From A Spring
"A federal judge in Connecticut refused to dismiss a long-running lawsuit accusing the former Nestle Waters North America of defrauding consumers by labeling its Poland Spring bottled water as "spring water."
Source: Reuters, 01/03/2025"Grieving Killer Whale Who Carried Calf’s Body Spotted Again With Dead Baby"
"An apparently grieving killer whale who swam more than 1,000 miles pushing the body of her dead newborn has lost another calf and is again carrying the body, a development researchers say is a “devastating” loss for the ailing population."
Source: Guardian, 01/03/2025"Climate Change Added 41 Days Of Dangerous Heat Around World In 2024"
"People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024.
The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central researchers comes at the end of a year that shattered climate record after climate record as heat across the globe made 2024 likely to be its hottest ever measured and a slew of other fatal weather events spared few.
Source: AP, 01/02/2025Calif. Will Require Insurers To Increase Home Coverage In Fire-Prone Areas
"Insurance companies that stopped providing home coverage to hundreds of thousands of Californians in recent years as wildfires became more destructive will have to again provide policies in fire-prone areas if they want to keep doing business in California under a state regulation announced Monday."
Source: AP, 01/02/2025Oil Industry Playbook: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public
"Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry."
Source: ProPublica, 01/02/2025"The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago."
"The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”"
Source: NYTimes, 01/02/2025"Jimmy Carter’s Conservation Legacy"
"The 39th U.S. president led the fight to preserve vast swaths of Alaskan wilderness. It forever changed the state and the National Park Service."
Source: E&E News, 01/02/2025
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