Environmental Justice

"Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End"

"Global climate negotiations ended on Saturday in Brazil with a watered-down resolution that made no direct mention of fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming."

Source: NYTimes, 11/24/2025

Makah Tribe’s Treaty-Protected Whaling Rights Remain Blocked 2+ Decades Later

"Despite the Makah Tribe’s success in getting a waiver to carry out their exclusive treaty right for whaling, the permitting process that had dragged on for over 20 years has now been effectively delayed  another year and a half – because of bogged-down federal bureaucracy. The Makah Tribe is the only one in the Lower 48 that has an exclusive treaty right to whaling."

Source: ICT, 11/21/2025

An Alabama City Council OKs Rezoning for Big Data Center, Dividing Community

"After the Bessemer City Council voted 5-2 to rezone nearly 700 acres of agricultural land for the “hyperscale” server farm, a dissenting council member said city officials who signed non-disclosure agreements weren’t being transparent with citizens."

Source: Inside Climate News, 11/21/2025

"EPA Sees “Greater Uncertainty” With Paraquat Risk Factor, Seeks More Data"

"New data is adding to regulatory concerns about potential human health risks from the weed killer paraquat, leading the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to seek more information from manufacturers of the pesticide."

Source: The New Lede, 11/21/2025

Trump DHS Makes Major Changes To Report It Ordered On FEMA Reforms: Sources

"A draft of a much-anticipated report on reforms to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been whittled down in size, with recommendations compiled by a council appointed by the president slashed and amended by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s office, according to three people familiar with the developments."

Source: AP, 11/21/2025

"Calif. Farms Applied Millions Of Pounds Of Pfas To Key Crops, Study Finds"

"California farms applied an average of 2.5m lb of Pfas “forever chemicals” per year on cropland from 2018 to 2023, or a total of about 15m lb, a new review of state records shows."

Source: Guardian, 11/20/2025

"Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths"

"Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3 million more deaths globally, analysis finds. Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change."

"New advances in environmental science are providing a detailed understanding of the human costs of the Trump administration’s approach to climate change.

Source: ProPublica, 11/20/2025

"UN Maritime Chief Links Rise Of Dark Fleet To Worker Abuses"

"The head of the United Nations' maritime agency warned of a disturbing rise in the criminalisation of seafarers, driven by geopolitical tensions and a surge in substandard shipping practices linked to the so-called dark fleet operating outside international norms."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 11/19/2025

"Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People"

"Poisonous dust falls from the sky over the town of Ogijo, near Lagos, Nigeria. It coats kitchen floors, vegetable gardens, churchyards and schoolyards. The toxic soot billows from crude factories that recycle lead for American companies."

Source: NYTimes, 11/19/2025

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