"EPA: Superfund Cleanup ‘Likely’ Fouled Pennsylvania Town’s Water"
"Municipal sewage sludge was used as fertilizer in the project that began decades ago in Palmerton, where PFAS now taint soil and water."
Source: E&E News, 11/03/2025
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Sludge Is Used As Fertilizer Across Wisconsin. How Much Is Tainted By PFAS?
"Sludge and septage are spread across around half a million acres statewide, but most of it has never been tested for PFAS"
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio, 11/03/2025"Traces of Old Farm Chemicals Contaminate Water Across the U.S."
"Even though it delivers airtight data and analysis essential for understanding and managing the risks industrial societies pose to water, land, and health, the U.S. Geological Survey is a federal science agency that rarely attracts public notice."
Source: Circle of Blue, 11/03/2025"EPA Retreats From Plans To End The Energy Star Program"
"Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has quietly retreated from plans to eliminate Energy Star, a popular program whose iconic blue labels help consumers choose energy-efficient dishwashers, refrigerators and other home appliances."
Source: NYTimes, 11/03/2025"Melissa Dissipates, Leaves Destruction And At Least 50 Dead In Caribbean"
"Melissa, one of the strongest storms on record to make landfall in the Caribbean, began to dissipate on Friday after sowing devastation across much of Jamaica, cutting off communities in Cuba, drenching Haiti and leaving at least 50 dead."
Source: Reuters, 11/03/2025Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop Toxic Wastewater From Oil Field
"Oil companies have polluted groundwater and the environment by injecting oil field waste deep into the earth at pressures high enough to violate Oklahoma law. ... The regulatory agency says it ... has not fined any company for wastewater leaks in the last five years."
Source: The Frontier, 11/03/2025After Decades, Green Sea Turtles Have Been Saved From Extinction — for Now
"Earlier this month, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported that the global population of green turtles has increased nearly 30 percent since the 1970s, thanks to a suite of international actions aimed at saving the animals."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/03/2025"AI Is Pushing Climate Goals Out of Reach, New Reports Say"
"Surging electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence is putting humanity’s climate goals out of reach, extending the life of fossil fuels and driving up emissions in the U.S. power sector while contributing to deadly extreme weather, according to two new reports published Wednesday."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/31/2025EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution. Real Emissions Are Far Worse.
"For decades, some big polluters were allowed to estimate their emissions using methods the government knew were often unreliable. Air monitors at coke manufacturers, chemical plants and other industrial facilities showed far higher emissions than the estimates, records viewed by ProPublica show."
Source: ProPublica, 10/31/2025"Inside EPA’s Hunt For Employees Who Signed The Dissent Letter"
"Emails obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News under the Freedom of Information Act shed light on the internal investigation that began within hours of the EPA “Declaration of Dissent” going public on June 30. In the following days, the administration sifted through names of those who had signed the letter, shared legal advice and responded by placing close to 150 employees on administrative leave while their computers and email accounts were searched."
Source: E&E News, 10/31/2025Judge Cuts Greenpeace Pipeline Protest Penalty In Half to $345 Million
"A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and related entities liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago."
Source: AP, 10/31/2025Brazil’s Amazon Deforestation Falls 11% Even As Fires Surge To Record
"Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged to record levels amid a severe drought."
Source: AP, 10/31/2025Lobster Population Falls Off New England. Regulators Declare Overfishing.
"A new report says America’s lobsters, which have been in decline since 2018, are now being overfished off New England."
Source: AP, 10/31/2025Corps Approves Enbridge Pipeline Reroute Around Wisconsin Reservation
"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday approved energy company Enbridge’s plans to reroute an aging oil pipeline around a northern Wisconsin tribal reservation."
Source: AP, 10/31/2025Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa Four Times More Likely: Study
"Fueled by unusually warm waters, Hurricane Melissa this week turned into one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. Now a new rapid attribution study suggests human-induced climate change made the deadly tropical cyclone four times more likely."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/31/2025
