"Memorial Day Weekend Gas Prices Expected To Be Cheapest In Years"
"The gas prices for Memorial Day weekend are expected to be the cheapest, when adjusted for inflation, in recent years."
Source: The Hill, 05/22/2025
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"3,500% Tariffs Cloud Outlook For US Solar Industry"
"The International Trade Commission backed solar tariffs as high as 3,521 percent in a vote Tuesday, shaking up a renewable industry facing multiple headwinds from potential congressional rollbacks of tax credits and cuts in federal spending."
Source: E&E News, 05/22/2025"EPA Defunds Research Into PFAS Contamination on Farms"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has canceled grant funding to university research teams studying how “forever chemicals” contaminate soil and groundwater, including at least $3 million for two projects specifically looking at contamination on farms."
Source: Civil Eats, 05/22/2025"China To Donate $500 Million To WHO, Stepping Into Gap Left By U.S."
"China has pledged to give $500 million to the World Health Organization as the country is set to replace the United States as the group’s top state donor, expanding Beijing’s global influence in the wake of Washington’s retreat from international cooperation."
Source: Washington Post, 05/22/2025"Trump’s Interior Chief Calls Many Employees ‘Redundant Overhead’"
"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday vigorously defended firing large numbers of Interior Department staff because he said too many work in offices and too few in national parks."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/22/2025"Sea Level Rise Will Cause ‘Catastrophic Inland Migration’, Scientists Warn"
"Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds"
Source: Guardian, 05/22/2025Plea Deal Shutters Watts Recycling Plant Accused Of Spewing Toxics At School
"A South L.A. recycling plant that has been accused of spewing toxic waste and metal projectiles onto the grounds of Jordan High School will be permanently shut down, according to a plea deal agreed to by the plant’s owners in court Tuesday."
Source: LA Times, 05/22/2025"How Dried-Out Wetlands On The Iran/Iraq Border Threaten The Region"
"The dust storms that have choked Iranians and Iraqis for weeks and hospitalised thousands, are the canary in the coalmine for a complex environmental disaster unfolding in wetlands straddling the two countries' border."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 05/22/2025Chemical Exposure From Ultra-Processed Foods May Worsen Health Issues
"Toxic synthetic chemicals that migrate into ultra-processed foods from packaging, processing equipment and other sources may explain why these foods are so bad for our health, according to a new review article."
Source: The New Lede, 05/22/2025James Hansen Decries Trump Plan To Shut Nasa Lab Above Seinfeld Diner
"Perched above the New York City diner made famous by the TV show Seinfeld, Tom’s Restaurant, a small research laboratory became, improbably, crucial to humanity’s understanding of our changing climate and of the universe itself."
Source: Guardian, 05/22/2025"FEMA Should Take New Name, States Should Bear Costs, DHS Head Noem Says"
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency should be renamed as the agency is reformed to increase the burden on states to respond to natural disasters, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at a meeting on reforming FEMA on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 05/21/2025"Where Local Forecast Offices No Longer Monitor Weather Around-The-Clock"
"For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. But after the U.S. DOGE Service led efforts to shrink the federal government, that is no longer possible in some parts of the country."
Source: Washington Post, 05/21/2025"Kennedy’s Allies Against Pesticides: Environmentalists, Moms and Manly Men"
"An unlikely group is coalescing around the health secretary’s drive for restrictions on atrazine, which is linked to cancer, birth defects and low sperm counts."
Source: NYTimes, 05/21/2025Alabama Power Faces Lawsuit for Contaminating Groundwater With Coal Ash
"Nine years after the Gadsden Steam Plant stopped burning coal, its unlined coal ash pond is still polluting Alabama groundwater, records show."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/21/2025"First US Utility Seeks Permit For A Small Nuclear Reactor"
"For the first time in the United States, a utility is asking federal regulators for a permit to build a small nuclear reactor."
Source: AP, 05/21/2025
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