"First US Utility Seeks Permit For A Small Nuclear Reactor"
"For the first time in the United States, a utility is asking federal regulators for a permit to build a small nuclear reactor."
Source: AP, 05/21/2025
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Alabama Power Faces Lawsuit for Contaminating Groundwater With Coal Ash
"Nine years after the Gadsden Steam Plant stopped burning coal, its unlined coal ash pond is still polluting Alabama groundwater, records show."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/21/2025
"Kennedy’s Allies Against Pesticides: Environmentalists, Moms and Manly Men"
"An unlikely group is coalescing around the health secretary’s drive for restrictions on atrazine, which is linked to cancer, birth defects and low sperm counts."
Source: NYTimes, 05/21/2025
"Where Local Forecast Offices No Longer Monitor Weather Around-The-Clock"
"For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. But after the U.S. DOGE Service led efforts to shrink the federal government, that is no longer possible in some parts of the country."
Source: Washington Post, 05/21/2025
"FEMA Should Take New Name, States Should Bear Costs, DHS Head Noem Says"
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency should be renamed as the agency is reformed to increase the burden on states to respond to natural disasters, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at a meeting on reforming FEMA on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 05/21/2025
'Silencing Voice of America', in Conversation With Liam Scott and Freedom of the Press Foundation
This conversation about the Trump administration’s attacks on Voice of America and other publicly funded media outlets will examine how these moves threaten the independence of public-interest journalism, what’s at stake for reporters and audiences, and what comes next for press freedom in the U.S. and around the world. 12:30 p.m. ET.
YPCCC Webinar: Understanding and Countering Climate Change Misinformation and Disinformation
The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication hosts an online conversation with speakers from Climate Action Against Disinformation, Graphika and University of Cambridge on how climate change disinformation spreads, groups that are susceptible and how climate communicators can respond. 10 a.m. ET.
"WOTUS: A Narrowing EPA Definition Is Reshaping The Clean Water Act"
"Debra Shankland was a kid when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire in 1969. ... Shankland was one of many speakers at the latest listening session led by the EPA as the agency crafts a new definition for the long controversial language “waters of the United States” contained in the Clean Water Act. The interpretation of that phrase, commonly shorthanded as WOTUS, can have massive implications for the health of small streams, remote wetlands, creeks and other waters."
Source: The New Lede, 05/20/2025
Endangered Whales Gave Birth To Few Babies This Year As Population Declines
"A vanishing species of whale gave birth to few babies this birthing season, raising alarms among scientists and conservationists who fear the animal could go extinct. The whale is the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers only about 370 and has declined in population in recent years."
Source: AP, 05/20/2025
Company Decides Not To Rebuild Ga. Chlorine Plant With History Of Fires
"The company that operated a Georgia chlorine plant with a history of explosions, chemical fires and toxic clouds that have drifted over neighborhoods outside Atlanta has decided not to rebuild the main manufacturing facility in Conyers."
Source: AP, 05/20/2025
