Congress Proposes Scrapping PFAS Measures That Protect Firefighters, Others
"Congress is proposing to reverse measures that protect military service members, firefighters and others from harmful PFAS chemicals."
Source: The New Lede, 08/29/2025
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‘Sea War’ Brews Off Gambia As Local Fishers Attack Foreign Vessels, Each Other
"BANJUL, Gambia — Kawsu Leigh writhed in pain on the fishing boat, his burned skin as mottled as the paint on the deck beneath him. Raw and slick, the burns covered large parts of his upper body."
Source: AP, 08/29/2025
"2 Firefighters Working On Bear Gulch Fire Arrested By Border Patrol"
"Two firefighters working on the Bear Gulch Fire [Wash.] were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Wednesday."
Source: KING5, 08/29/2025
Public Media Stations In Rural US Say Emergency-Alert Funding Is In Jeopardy
"When a deadly landslide tore through part of Wrangell, Alaska, in 2023, there was only one place people there could go for information. "We're on an island, and there's one road, and everybody that lived south of that road lost everything — they lost their electricity, internet, television, phones," says Cindy Sweat, the general manager of KSTK, the community's public broadcaster. What was left, Sweat says, was the radio."
Source: NPR, 08/29/2025
"Chicago Has The Most Lead Pipes In The Nation. We Mapped Them All."
"As Gina Ramirez buckled her 11-year-old son into her car last month for their daily drive to school, she handed him a plastic water bottle."
Source: Grist/ICN/WBEZ, 08/29/2025
"How Homeless Residents Nationwide Suffer The Effects Of Hotter Summers"
"When the weather warms up in Connecticut, Clarence Braun and his wife, Holly, park their Mercury Grand Marquis in the shade or ride around with the windows down trying to cool off."
Source: NPR, 08/29/2025
RFK Jr Deputy Jim O’Neill As Acting CDC Director After Monarez Ouster: Sources
"Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill is expected to serve as acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official and another person familiar with the matter."
Source: CNN, 08/29/2025
"An Industry Insider’s Changes at the EPA Could Cost Taxpayers Billions"
"A Trump appointee has proposed rewriting a measure that requires companies to clean up “forever chemicals,” documents show. The new version would shift costs from polluters."
Source: NYTimes, 08/29/2025
Trump Climate Science Denial Hinges on … Not Saying the Word
A war on the facts behind climate change — and on the actions to address it — is well underway in the second Trump administration. The new WatchDog Opinion column takes the measure of the battlefront, eyeing key examples of the political onslaught, including a concerted effort to eradicate the very term itself. Regulations killed, research discredited, speech censored and more.
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