Environmental Health

"State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found."

"California farms applied an average of 2.5m lb of Pfas “forever chemicals” per year on cropland from 2018 to 2023, or a total of about 15m lb, a new review of state records shows."

"President Donald Trump, who has assailed Illinois’ governor and its largest city, denied disaster aid to thousands of Chicago residents even though his administration documented extraordinary damage from two major storms this summer, records obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News show."

"Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3 million more deaths globally, analysis finds. Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change."

"New advances in environmental science are providing a detailed understanding of the human costs of the Trump administration’s approach to climate change.

"Utilities expect electricity growth to reach levels that are hard to fathom — and they’re using those estimates to justify costly new investments in fossil gas."

"After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. ProPublica did. Experts say ProPublica’s analysis offers a plausible explanation for how the wind could have helped spread the virus, exposing a flaw in the USDA’s playbook to fight it."

"Poisonous dust falls from the sky over the town of Ogijo, near Lagos, Nigeria. It coats kitchen floors, vegetable gardens, churchyards and schoolyards. The toxic soot billows from crude factories that recycle lead for American companies."

"An emerging area of research is uncovering surprising links between nature and human health."

"Nearly a fifth of EPA’s workforce has opted into President Donald Trump’s mass resignation plan as he pushes to reduce the federal government’s payroll."

"The embattled acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will step down after hurricane season following months of public controversy and internal frustration."