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"UN Plastics Treaty Chair To Step Down With Process In Turmoil"

"The chair of stalled UN plastics treaty talks, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, is preparing to step down, after accounts of behind-the-scenes pressure from the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)." "In August, global talks at the UN headquarters in Geneva to agree on a treaty to deal with accelerating plastic pollution collapsed after three years of negotiations. There is currently no deal and the future of the agreement is unclear."

Source: Guardian, 10/09/2025

"EU To Ban Use Of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Firefighting Foam"

"The European Commission on Friday announced restrictions on the use of so-called "forever chemicals" in firefighting foams."

Source: dpa, 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

"Exxon Steps Back From Texas Gulf Coast Plastics Plant"

"Exxon Mobil will postpone its plans for a large new plastics production plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas, according to the company. Construction was initially planned to begin next year on the $10 billion facility in rural Calhoun County."

Source: Inside Climate News, 10/08/2025

Tests Show That A Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking

"Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water."

Source: Inside Climate News, 10/08/2025

Fracking Waste In A Landfill Again Poses A Monongahela Pollution Problem

"On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon Municipal Authority’s sewage treatment plant, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh."

Source: Allegheny Front, 10/07/2025

"How Big Agriculture Got Its Way In The Latest MAHA Report"

"Alarmed by the first MAHA commission report, the agriculture industry mobilized to shape the next installment. Those efforts seemingly paid off."

Source: Washington Post, 10/07/2025

"Advocates Raise Alarm Over PFAS Pollution From Datacenters Amid AI Boom"

"Tech companies’ use of PFAS gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought"

"Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy and requiring fossil fuel plants to stay online, while their high level of water consumption has also raised alarm. Now public health advocates fear another environmental problem could be linked to them – PFAS “forever chemical” pollution.

Source: Guardian, 10/06/2025

EPA, EES Coke Battery $135 Million Apart Penalties As Pollution Trial Ends

"When faced with testimony that Zug Island’s EES Coke Battery is one of Michigan’s worst sulfur dioxide polluters, an attorney for the facility said Monday: “So what?” The DTE Energy-owned facility was “permitted to do so,” said Michael Hindelang, attorney for the utility and its subsidiaries that are defendants in the EPA’s Clean Air Act lawsuit over the emissions."

Source: Planet Detroit, 10/03/2025

"EPA Moves to Prioritize Review of New Chemicals for Data Centers"

"The Trump administration has begun prioritizing the review of new, potentially hazardous chemicals used in data centers that public health advocates and environmental attorneys warn could endanger workers, communities and the environment."

Source: Inside Climate News, 10/03/2025

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