People & Population

"Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump"

"President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard."

Source: NYTimes, 10/14/2025

"A Short-Lived Win in a Never-Ending Fight Over Forever Chemicals"

"For seven years N.C. activists overcame political and scientific hurdles to convince the EPA to enact PFAS regulations in drinking water. Now they’re confronting a Trump administration intent on quashing their success."

Source: Inside Climate News, 10/14/2025

EPA Hasn’t Released Completed Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical

"Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it."

Source: ProPublica, 10/10/2025

Women In Mexico Protect Ancient Aztec Farms And Save A Vanishing Ecosystem

"Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms that were built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago."

Source: AP, 10/09/2025

"Fla. County Battered By 2024 Hurricanes Spends $125M On Beach Restoration"

"The white sandy beaches along a swath of Florida’s Gulf Coast were battered by three hurricanes last year, leading to a multimillion-dollar effort to repair a coastline that is the region’s economic engine."

Source: AP, 10/09/2025

"Progress on Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ Stalls as Seedlings Die Off"

"Countries in the Sahel region of Africa have made little progress on the “Great Green Wall,” a 5,000-mile-long band of trees planned for the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Even where communities are planting new trees, few seedlings actually survive, new research shows."

Source: YaleE360, 10/09/2025

EPA Drops Planned Delay in Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants

"Public health advocates pushed back when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it planned to delay for two years a requirement that steel companies monitor air quality at the perimeters of their 11 coke plants in Western Pennsylvania and across the country. Two groups sued. Now, the EPA has reversed course."

Source: Inside Climate News, 10/08/2025

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