"Trump Hits Delete For Energy, Environment Regs"
"The president’s suite of executive orders to decimate environmental regulations will propel his administration into court."
Source: E&E News, 04/14/2025
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Bayer Asks Supreme Court To Block State Suits About Roundup Cancer Warning
"Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law preempts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer."
Source: AP, 04/11/2025
Firm Cancels Plant To Process Plastic Waste To Be Burned In Steel Mills
"International Recycling Group (IRG) has announced that they will cancel a planned plastic waste processing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, due to President Trump’s federal funding cuts and tariffs, among other reasons."
Source: EHN, 04/11/2025
1000s of US Water Systems Show Dangerous Levels Of Cancer-Causing Chemicals
"Millions of people across the United States could be drinking water contaminated with dangerous levels of substances created when utilities disinfect water tainted with animal manure and other pollutants, according to a report released Thursday."
Source: The New Lede, 04/11/2025
Rural Human Rights Defenders Face Serious and Growing Risks: UN Report
"When a gold mine in rural Liberia spewed three million gallons of cyanide-laced wastewater into soil and groundwater in 2016, affected Indigenous communities’ calls for accountability went largely unanswered."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/10/2025
Threatened Carbon Pipeline Filed Hundreds Of Lawsuits Against Landowners
"Jared Bossly was planting soybeans one spring night in 2023 on his 2,000-acre farm in South Dakota when he spotted a sheriff’s vehicle parked at the corner of his property. He had a hunch it wasn’t a social visit."
Source: AP, 04/10/2025
"Bayer’s Effort to Block Roundup Lawsuits Kicks Into High Gear"
"The agrichemical giant is lobbying for state and federal laws that would give it legal immunity from claims that Roundup causes cancer, and launched a new ad blitz."
Source: Civil Eats, 04/09/2025
RFK Jr. Directs CDC To Stop Promoting Fluoridation; EPA Will Re-Assess
"Citing health concerns, newly appointed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that he will direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop recommending that states add fluoride to their water, and will convene a federal taskforce of independent health experts to study the health risks presented by the practice while establishing a new “optimal” level."
Source: The New Lede, 04/09/2025
"Milwaukee Faces Lead Crisis Without CDC Experts RFK Jr. Fired"
"When Milwaukee officials discovered in January that lead paint in school buildings had poisoned kids, they called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." "“The people who were answering our questions are just gone,” City Health Commissioner Michael Totoraitis said in an interview after the firings Tuesday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Source: E&E News, 04/07/2025
"Trump Officials Quietly Move To Reverse Bans On Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’"
"The Trump administration is quietly carrying out a plan that aims to kill hundreds of bans on highly toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” and other dangerous compounds in consumer goods. The bans, largely at the state level, touch most facets of daily life, prohibiting everything from bisphenol in children’s products to mercury in personal care products to PFAS in food packaging and clothing."
Source: Guardian, 04/07/2025
