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"A Logging Protest In The Treetops Ends In Terror, Activists Say"

"Protesters lived in a tree for 40 days on the Olympic Peninsula to protest logging of older forests." "On the 40th night of the protest, a black Jeep drove up a logging road and stopped near the base of a towering grand fir."

Source: Washington Post, 06/30/2025

"A Public Lands Sell-Off Is Struck From the G.O.P. Policy Bill"

"Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, said late Saturday that he had dropped his contentious plan to sell millions of acres of public lands from the sweeping domestic policy package that the Senate will soon begin debating."

Source: NYTimes, 06/30/2025

"Surprise Tax in G.O.P. Bill Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power"

"Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry."

Source: NYTimes, 06/30/2025

Bill Moyers, Friend of SEJ, Dead at 91

Bill Moyers, a great American who proudly called himself an environmental journalist, died June 26, 2025. He was one of SEJ’s “angels,” helping the organization to survive difficult times — first by inspiring us and second by engineering a major sustaining grant from the Schumann Foundation. Moyers also delivered the Keynote at SEJ's 2005 annual conference in Austin, Texas.

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1/3 Of Tuvalu Citizens Seek Australian Climate Visas To Escape Rising Seas

"Almost a third of all of Tuvalu’s residents have put in requests for the first batch of climate visas from Australia, as scientists fear the Pacific nation will be uninhabitable within the next 80 years."

Source: France24, 06/27/2025

NTSB Says Company Failed To Shut Down Leaking Oil Pipeline For Nearly 13 Hours

"Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at a problem, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday."

Source: AP, 06/27/2025

"4 New Pesticides Ignite Debate Over PFAS Definition"

"The US Environmental Protection Agency is doubling down on efforts to decrease a backlog of new pesticide active ingredients waiting for EPA approval to enter the marketplace. Since April, the agency has proposed registering four of them—cyclobutrifluram, diflufenican, isocycloseram, and trifludimoxazin."

Source: Chemical & Engineering News, 06/27/2025

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