"The Food Industry Pays ‘Influencer’ Dietitians To Shape Your Eating Habits"
"Registered dietitians are being paid to post videos that promote diet soda, sugar and supplements on Instagram and TikTok".
Source: Washington Post, 09/14/2023
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"Crowding Out Cougars"
"Expanded development on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, viewed as a climate refuge, is encroaching on prime wildlife habitat. As big cats find it harder to avoid people, many are winding up dead."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/14/2023
"Study: Lead Exposure Killed More Than 5 Million People In Just One Year"
"A new study from the World Bank tallies the staggering worldwide toll: 5.5 million deaths from heart diseases because of exposure to lead in 2019 alone." "Contamination from battery recyclers, tainted cookware, and fertilizers could be contributing to the health crisis."
Source: Grist, 09/14/2023
Calif. Lawmakers Pass Groundbreaking Greenhouse Emissions Disclosure Bill
"California lawmakers have passed a bill that would require large U.S.-based companies doing business in the Golden State to publicly disclose their annual greenhouse gas emissions — the first such requirement in the nation."
Source: LA Times, 09/14/2023
Earth Outside ‘Safe Operating Space For Humanity’ On Key Parameters: Study
"Earth is exceeding its “safe operating space for humanity” in six of nine key measurements of its health, and two of the remaining three are headed in the wrong direction, a new study said."
Source: AP, 09/14/2023
#SEJ2024 Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Join us for SEJ's 33rd annual conference, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania! Mid-Atlantic journalists have much to share with you about their corner of the world: the huge national battle over fracking and LNG versus renewable energy, such as wind and solar; the paradox of a city that wants to be modern and future-facing but is held back by issues of poverty, environmental racism, infrastructure challenges and development problems; flooding and sea level rise; pollution and land management; and much more.
"Trying To Kill Mosquitoes? Don’t Buy A Bug Zapper."
"Every night, a mass murderer stalks the darkness of America’s suburbs. An eerie blue glow lures hapless victims from their homes. The doomed souls, mesmerized by the light, throng to their deaths in sizzling blasts of electricity."
Source: Washington Post, 09/13/2023
"‘Zombie Trout’ Unsettle Montana, Long a Fly-Fishing Mecca"
"Since the Fellin family founded the Big Hole Lodge in the 1980s to take people fly fishing on the Big Hole River, they have seen significant changes to the cobble-and-boulder-studded freestone trout stream."
Source: NYTimes, 09/13/2023
"Mosquito-Borne Dengue Grows Deadlier In South Asia As Planet Warms"
"Mosquito-borne dengue fever is taking a heavy toll on South Asian nations this year as Bangladesh grapples with record deaths and Nepal faces cases in new areas, with disease experts linking worsening outbreaks to the impacts of climate change."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 09/13/2023
"EPA To Undo Trump-Era Rollback Of Air Toxics Policy"
"In a long-anticipated move, EPA is poised to target the Trump-era rollback of a venerable industrial air pollution policy."
Source: E&E News, 09/13/2023
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