"Judge Halts California Development, Citing Wildfire Risk"
"A long-running plan to build a community of 19,000 homes on vast Tejon Ranch north of Los Angeles has been halted by a judge who cited high wildfire risk."
Source: AP, 04/09/2021
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"Florida Crisis Highlights a Nationwide Risk From Toxic Ponds"
"Thousands of open-air waste pools near power plants, mines and industrial farms can pose safety dangers from poor management and, increasingly, the effects of climate change."
Source: NYTimes, 04/09/2021
"Toxics: FDA Rules For Baby Food Guided By Feasibility, Not Safety"
"When parents first serve solid foods to their babies, they often turn to infant rice cereal. The iron-fortified mix is nutritious and relatively easy to feed babies unaccustomed to spoons or strong flavors. But the Food and Drug Administration allows 10 times as much arsenic in this favored first food as it does in other products, like bottled water and apple juice — despite the fact that, as a neurotoxin, arsenic can have an outsize impact on babies, whose brains are still developing."
Source: E&E News, 04/09/2021
Haaland Meets With Utah Politicians, Tribes As Biden Weighs Monuments
"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland met with Utah politicians, tribal leaders and other stakeholders Wednesday and Thursday as President Biden weighs whether to change the boundaries of two monuments that were shrunk by former President Trump."
Source: The Hill, 04/09/2021
Intel Report Warns Of Fragile Future Shaped By Pandemics, Climate Change
"A new report from the U.S. intelligence community paints a bleak picture of what Americans can expect over the next 20 years, warning of a planet that will be ravaged by pandemics and climate change."
Source: The Hill, 04/09/2021
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