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Environmental Health

Slow Firefighting, Costlier Ag Likely If Trump Dismantles NOAA: Experts

"Many industries rely on the agency’s weather and climate data. Even a small gap in its operations could raise food prices and drastically disrupt how people navigate the West’s changing climate."

Source: Inside Climate News, 11/01/2024

"What Trump Winning The Election Could Mean For The CDC"

"State and local health departments would no longer be able to track opioid overdoses, provide cancer screenings and help people quit smoking, according to health officials, if Republicans carry out their plans to dramatically shrink the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under a second Donald Trump presidency."

Source: Washington Post, 11/01/2024

RFK Jr. Said Trump Promised Him Control of Public Health Agencies

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told supporters on an online organizing call this week that former President Donald J. Trump had “promised” him “control” of the nation’s public health agencies, should Mr. Trump win the election next week. The Trump campaign, however, would confirm no such commitments."

Source: NYTimes, 10/31/2024

"Super Polluting Coal Plants Power Economies And The Climate Crisis"

"Shuttering the world's dirtiest power plants could help to eliminate vast amounts of planet-heating emissions that are threatening international climate goals of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). From India to Poland, these super polluting power plants most often run on coal and emit tens of millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide a year."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 10/30/2024

"Water Quality Advocates Ask Virginia For More Aggressive PFAS Policies"

"In Virginia, laws passed so far require agencies to find and address specific sources of PFAS pollution when they have contaminated a public drinking water system. But clean water advocates want the state to require more monitoring now at facilities known to be possible sources of PFAS so that action can be taken more quickly when additional federal limits are finalized."

Source: Bay Journal, 10/30/2024

"Supreme Court Ignites Wave Of Lawsuits Against Federal Regulations"

"Major businesses and their lobbying groups have seized on a set of recent Supreme Court decisions that sharply limit the government’s regulatory powers, aiming to advance dozens of lawsuits that could invalidate a vast array of federal climate, education, health and labor rules."

Source: Washington Post, 10/30/2024

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