"DOJ Tells Trump He Can Wipe Out National Monuments"
"An opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel says the Antiquities Act of 1906 allows presidents to shrink or eliminate designations by previous presidents."
Source: E&E News, 06/11/2025
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"How The ‘Evil Twin’ Of The Climate Crisis Is Threatening Our Oceans"
"In seas around the world pH levels are falling – and scientists are increasingly frustrated that the problem is not being taken seriously enough"
Source: Guardian, 06/11/2025"Toxic Truth? The Cookware Craze Redefining ‘Ceramic’ And ‘Nontoxic’"
"The cookware industry has entered a golden age, largely driven by the wild success of a new generation of “nontoxic” and “nonstick” designer ceramic pans backed by stars including Selena Gomez, Stanley Tucci and Oprah Winfrey. But the pans are probably not “nontoxic” some independent testing and research suggests."
Source: Guardian, 06/11/2025"Trump’s Second Term Is Creating ‘A Limbo Moment’ For US Battery Recyclers"
"The president hasn't directly targeted the nascent industry, but his clean energy rollbacks could hurt it."
Source: Grist, 06/11/2025"The River That Came Back To Life: A Journey Down The Reborn Klamath"
"Less than a year after four dams were removed from the river, life has blossomed along its banks, presenting new challenges and joys of recovery"
Source: Guardian, 06/11/2025"RFK Jr. Purges Every Vaccine Adviser On CDC Panel; Will Pick Replacements"
"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday he was removing the entire membership of the influential vaccine advisory panel that makes immunization recommendations for the United States, an unprecedented move by Kennedy and escalation of his overhaul of federal vaccination policy."
Source: Washington Post, 06/10/2025"Journalists Come Under Fire Covering L.A. Protests"
"Reporters say they were struck with less-lethal rounds fired by law enforcement. Advocates worry it will inhibit vital journalism."
Source: Washington Post, 06/10/2025"Trump Cuts Would Scrap USGS Biological Research Arm"
"The Trump administration wants to unplug a high-powered U.S. Geological Survey research program whose scientists have helped protect wildlife, manage forests, thwart pests and illuminate nature for over three decades."
Source: E&E News, 06/10/2025UN Ocean Summit Opens In France As U.S. Government Scientists Stay Away
"World leaders, scientists and officials gathered on Monday to open the third United Nations Ocean Conference and launch a global appeal to save the world's oceans, which scientists say are in bad health." "Glaringly absent are U.S. scientific agencies like NASA and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Their scientists weren't allowed to attend the summit, say organizers."
Source: NPR, 06/10/2025Homeless Are The Group Most Vulnerable To Heat-Related Illnesses By Far
"Last summer, Taylor Weckstein was driving around rural New Mexico in a van delivering medical care to the homeless in the sweltering heat. The Harvard Medical School graduate came across people with severe dehydration, kidney disease and third-degree burns from being seared by the pavement, she recalled."
Source: Washington Post, 06/10/2025In Highly Polluted Ala. Black Community, Trump Axes Funds for Air Monitoring
"Residents in majority-Black north Birmingham, Alabama, have long been subjected to industrial pollution. The new administration has cut funding for a program aimed at measuring the impact."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/10/2025"Rockaway NY Was Fighting Coastal Erosion –- Then EPA Cancelled Funding
"Planned programs to protect dunes and beaches on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens are eroded by broken promises from Trump’s EPA."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/10/2025"A Proposal For A Massachusetts Wood-Burning Plant Is Back From The Dead"
"A plan to build a wood-burning power plant in a Massachusetts city once dubbed the asthma capital of the country could be springing back to life years after state and local officials struck it down — and opponents are ready to renew their fight against what many call a “zombie project.”"
Source: Canary Media, 06/10/2025"Trump’s Cuts To National Park Service Rankle Republicans"
"President Trump’s proposed cuts to the National Park Service (NPS) are troubling some Republicans."
Source: The Hill, 06/10/2025"See How Marine Heat Waves Are Spreading Across the Globe"
"Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave."
Source: NYTimes, 06/10/2025
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