Environmental Health

CDC Plans An ‘Ambitious’ Agency Overhaul To Address Covid Missteps

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency that has had its reputation battered by a series of missteps in the Covid-19 pandemic, and a slow response to the monkeypox outbreak, will undergo an “ambitious” overhaul, Director Rochelle Walensky announced Wednesday."

Source: STAT, 08/18/2022
August 30, 2022

Webinar: The Media, the Amazon and the 2022 Brazil Elections

Ahead of Brazil's 2022 elections, Smoke Signal socio environmental monitor invites journalists to the virtual launch of their new report "The Amazon and the Future of Brazil," showing politicians in nine Brazilian states supported dismantling of environmental policy to protect forests at the federal level. 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET.

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"Climate Bill Improves Air Quality Despite Fossil Fuel Benefits"

"Marginalized communities inundated with air pollution could be some of the biggest beneficiaries of the tax and climate bill. Environmentalists say the bill would bring potentially transformative local air quality gains, despite a tradeoff of benefits to the fossil fuel industry."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/12/2022

EPA OKs Plan To Truck Contamination From One Black Community To Another

"Contaminated soil from a Superfund site in Navassa [N.C.] will be shipped to one of three landfills outside Brunswick County, likely moving toxic pollution from one non-white or low-income community to another."

Source: States Newsroom, 08/10/2022

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