Trump Tariff Fight With China Means Trouble for Vast Wilderness in Brazil
"Brazilian farmers are lobbying to roll back deforestation restrictions in order to sell more soybeans to the huge Chinese market."
Source: NYTimes, 10/22/2025
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"Trump EPA Seeks To Weaken Scrutiny For Some Of US’s Most Toxic Chemicals"
"New rule would prohibit states from banning dangerous chemicals, and could invalidate hundreds of protections"
"A new rule proposed by the Trump administration would dramatically weaken safety reviews for some of the nation’s most toxic chemicals that are already on the market, public health advocates and an EPA employee warn.
Source: Guardian, 10/22/2025"Infectious Diseases Are Killing Deer And Risking Rural US Economies"
"Climate crisis contributing to spread of diseases as hunting industry takes a hit from growing number of dead deer"
Source: Guardian, 10/22/2025L.A. Pumps Owens Valley Groundwater, But Tribes Want It Back
"In the Owens Valley, Los Angeles not only siphons water from streams, but also pumps groundwater from wells. Leaders of Native tribes are calling for the city to take less water and are pushing for negotiations on water rights. They say pumping from wells has dried up springs and meadows."
Source: LA Times, 10/22/2025"Record Annual Rise In Atmospheric CO2 Levels Alarms UN Climate Body"
"The United Nations warned Wednesday that CO2 levels in the atmosphere saw their biggest annual jump on record in 2024, driven by fossil fuel emissions, wildfires and weakening natural absorption by land and oceans. The findings come ahead of November’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil, with scientists warning of a “vicious cycle” of feedback effects that could push the planet past critical tipping points."
Source: France 24, 10/22/2025"Fears Of Heat-Rationing For Millions In US As Shutdown Delays Energy Aid"
"Millions of Americans face having to ration heating this winter as the US federal government shutdown and mass layoffs by the Trump administration cause unprecedented delays in getting energy assistance aid to low-income households, a group that helps people pay energy bills has warned."
Source: Guardian, 10/22/2025"White House Halts $11B For Water Projects In Blue States"
"The Trump administration is “pausing” more than $11 billion in water infrastructure projects to 12 Democrat-controlled states, White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said Friday."
Source: E&E News, 10/22/2025""Fix Our Forests Act" Draws Mixed Reactions"
"A U.S. Senate committee hearing Tuesday revealed the dramatically differing views regarding the potential benefits of the Fix Our Forests Act, a bipartisan proposal that critics say would lead to logging of old-growth trees and weaken the country's environmental laws."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 10/22/2025Scientists Cautiously Optimistic After Right Whale Numbers Grew In 2024
"The number of North Atlantic right whales ticked up in 2024, according to researchers’ latest estimate of this critically endangered species. Scientists, while cautiously optimistic, said threats including entanglement in fishing gear, climate change and low birth rates still loom over efforts to save the animals from extinction."
Source: WBUR, 10/22/2025Purdue Student Journos Deliver 'Solidarity' Newspaper To IU Bloomington
"On Friday afternoon, students and staff from Purdue's student paper, The Exponent, traveled two hours from West Lafayette to Bloomington to do what the Indiana Daily Student couldn’t: deliver a paper to newsstands."
Source: Bloomington Herald-Times, 10/22/2025"The Government Is Shut Down. But Not for Fossil Fuels."
"More than 700,000 federal employees have been sidelined and thousands more are at risk of being fired as the government shutdown drags on." "Federal workers who issue permits for oil, gas and mining operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal pollution limits."
Source: NYTimes, 10/21/2025Interior Reveals Plans To Fire Hundreds Of National Park Service Employees
"The Interior Department plans to lay off more than 2,000 employees, including hundreds of National Parks Service (NPS) workers, according to a Monday court filing."
Source: The Hill, 10/21/2025Brazil OKs Oil Drilling Near Mouth Of Amazon R. Ahead Of UN Climate Summit
"Brazil’s government approved on Monday exploratory drilling by state-run oil-giant Petrobras near the mouth of the Amazon River. The decision comes only weeks before the United Nations climate conference in Belem, COP30, where efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuels will be discussed."
Source: AP, 10/21/2025Senate Poised To Approve Industry Lobbyist To Lead Chemical Safety At EPA
"The US Senate is poised to approve Donald Trump’s nomination of an industry lobbyist to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety office."
Source: Guardian, 10/21/2025Tropical Disturbance Threatens Torrential Rainfall For Central Caribbean
"A sprawling, fast-moving tropical disturbance raced through the Windward Islands on Sunday and entered the Caribbean, where it’s set to become a formidable rainmaker for days on end."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 10/21/2025
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