"The Environmental Protection Agency extended the deadline for reporting health and safety data for 16 toxic chemicals, including benzene, BPA and vinyl chloride."
"Reporters say they were struck with less-lethal rounds fired by law enforcement. Advocates worry it will inhibit vital journalism."
A private social media message piqued Arizona Republic reporter Joan Meiners’ interest in rural retirees’ efforts to block construction of a gas-fired peaker plant next to their homes. Her year-long, grant-funded investigation in 2024 uncovered questionable local government actions and utility executive motives, and concluded with action against the facility. Read Meiners’ account of how rural Arizonans became unlikely climate activists, in the latest FEJ Storylog.
Meet SEJ member María Gabriela Ensinck! Gabi is an award-winning Argentine journalist in print, radio and online media, covering science, health, environment, innovation and business.
"When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of climate-change religion” and introduce a “Golden Age” for the American economy. What Lee Zeldin didn’t mention: how ending the rules could have devastating consequences to human health."
"A climate report acquired by a Freedom of Information Act request shows that U.S. climate pollution declined in 2023."
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