"MAHA Promised Healthier Kids. But School Lunches May Deliver Less."
"Cuts to SNAP and farm-to-school programs under the Trump administration risk worsening childhood disease, nutrition experts warn."
Source: Capital & Main, 09/12/2025
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"RFK Jr. Wants More Air Pollution Research, But EPA Shut Down Its Lab"
"Researching air quality is key to improving kids’ health, according to a new strategy from the Make America Healthy Again Commission unveiled Tuesday by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. There’s just one problem: EPA, under Zeldin’s leadership, has shuttered the preeminent laboratory in the country studying air pollution’s impact on people."
Source: E&E News, 09/12/2025
DEADLINE: Firelight Fund
The new Firelight Fund will provide grants up to $50,000 to support Black, Brown and Indigenous filmmakers for stories from development through distribution, with a focus on those who are telling urgent stories and using their craft to advance social justice. Deadline: Sep 18, 2025.
"California’s First Solar-Covered Canal Is Now Fully Online"
"A novel solar power project just went online in California’s Central Valley, with panels that span across canals in the vast agricultural region." "The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide."
Source: Canary Media, 09/11/2025
MAHA Report Critics Say Corporate Pressure Wins Over Public Health
"A long-awaited and highly controversial report issued on Tuesday by the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission provides a few “crumbs” for public and environmental health advocates, but big wins for powerful food and chemical industries seeking to skirt limits on their products and practices."
Source: The New Lede, 09/11/2025
"Geoengineering Won’t Save Us From Global Warming, New Study Says"
"A team of the world’s best ice and climate researchers studied a handful of recently publicized engineering concepts for protecting Earth’s polar ice caps and found that none of them are likely to work."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/11/2025
Many Countries Are Saying No To ‘Unthinkable’ Room Costs For Climate Talks
"Brazil brought the U.N.’s COP30 climate conference to the Amazon. Then the price frenzy began." "The idea had seemed symbolically fitting at first — a global climate summit set on the edge of the threatened Amazon rainforest."
Source: Washington Post, 09/11/2025
US Bans on some Fish Imports Could Help Save Marine Mammals Worldwide: Experts
"The Trump administration set strict import bans on fisheries in more than 40 nations that do not meet standards for conserving marine mammals like whales and dolphins."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/11/2025
Warming Seas Threaten Key Phytoplankton That Fuels The Food Web: Study
"For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which forms the foundation of the marine food web and helps regulate the planet’s climate, will decline sharply as seas heat up."
Source: AP, 09/11/2025
Study Links Big Heat Waves To Pollution From Major Fossil Fuel Producers
"Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday."
Source: AP, 09/11/2025
