"Landmark Study Affirms Fluoride’s Link To Lowered IQ, Adds To Debate"
"Fluoride exposure is consistently linked with lowered IQ, according to a landmark analysis of more than 70 published studies on the subject."
Source: The New Lede, 01/09/2025
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"Thailand Bans Imports Of Plastic Waste To Curb Toxic Pollution"
"Thailand has banned plastic waste imports over concerns about toxic pollution, as experts warn that failure to agree a global treaty to cut plastic waste will harm human health."
Source: Guardian, 01/09/2025"Calif. Wildfires Threaten Insurers Already Teetering From Climate Shocks"
"It’s too soon to know the financial cost of the wildfires burning around Los Angeles. But the toll on California’s troubled insurance market could be enormous."
Source: NYTimes, 01/09/2025Elon Musk’s Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight
"Elon Musk’s Boring Company is constructing a planned 68-mile tunnel system beneath Las Vegas where drivers will ferry passengers around the urban core in Teslas. Despite its size, the project, because it’s privately funded, has not gone through the vetting typical of public transit systems, including lengthy governmental studies."
Source: ProPublica, 01/09/2025"To Save the Great Salt Lake, Farmers Will Have to Grow Less Alfalfa"
"The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, and new research published Tuesday reports that saving it requires reducing the amount of farmland that is irrigated in the region."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/09/2025Fires Tear Through Pacific Palisades, LA area; Gusts Of Up To 99 mph Reported
"The Palisades fire had grown to more than 2,900 acres as of Tuesday evening, driven by ‘life-threatening and destructive’ winds. The extreme wind event blasting Southern California is forecast to peak between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m."
Source: LA Times, 01/08/2025"Meta Ends Fact-Checking, Drawing Praise From Trump"
"Meta will dismantle its extensive fact-checking program in the United States, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday, ending a practice that has sought to limit the spread of falsehoods on its platforms but has been assailed as censorship in conservative circles."
Source: Washington Post, 01/08/2025"Trump Promises to End New Wind Farms"
"President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday that “no new windmills” would be built in the United States when he takes office, a direct rebuke of the Biden administration, which has approved 11 commercial-scale offshore wind projects."
Source: NYTimes, 01/08/2025"Campaigners Celebrate As Firm Making First-Ever GMO Fish Ceases Operations"
"AquaBounty Technologies, the first company in North America to get regulatory approval to sell a genetically engineered animal for human consumption — an Atlantic salmon spliced with genes from other fish — announced on Dec. 11 that it was closing its last facility, ceasing fish farming activities, and culling remaining stock.
Source: Mongabay, 01/08/2025Calif. And Greens Sued Exxon Over Plastics. Now Exxon Is Striking Back.
"On Monday, Exxon Mobil filed a lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of environmental groups over their criticism of the company’s plastics recycling initiatives."
Source: Grist, 01/08/2025"Why Does Trump Want Greenland?"
"President-elect Donald J. Trump’s attention returned Tuesday to an idea that has fascinated him for years: acquiring Greenland for the United States. In a news conference on Tuesday, he refused to rule out using military or economic force to take the territory from Denmark, a U.S. ally."
Source: NYTimes, 01/08/2025"What's In A Name? Trump Set To Wipe Government Language"
"As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to assume the White House on Jan. 20, the federal government is bracing for a massive overhaul in policy – and how it labels issues and individuals."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 01/08/2025"Extreme Weather Events Pose Outsized Risks for Food Delivery Workers"
"As climate change worsens, the people delivering your food are increasingly exposed to heat, wildfire smoke and other dangerous weather events."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/08/2025USFS Withdraws Old-Growth Forest Plan After Pushback From Industry And GOP
"The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry."
Source: AP, 01/08/2025Jimmy Carter Raised Climate Change Concerns 35 Years Before Paris Accords
"Nearly a half-century later, environmental advocates are remembering Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100, as a president who elevated environmental stewardship, energy conservation and discussions about the global threat of rising carbon dioxide levels."
Source: AP, 01/08/2025
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