An EPA complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged that a harmful disinfectant was being used without proper protection at an ICE facility in California.
Last week, the case — filed against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor — was dropped without explanation.
Feeling Anxiety About Climate Change and Other Environmental Threats? These Five New Books Can Help
Advice to help recharge your momentum and resilience makes these books must-reads for anyone who feels helpless or hopeless about climate chaos
#books #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
ClimateJustice.social is a Mastodon server for climate justice activists and those concerned about global warming and the current environmental crisis.
This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters and has been operating since 2020.
You can find out more at https://climatejustice.social/about or contact the admin @PaulaToThePeople
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"There is no playbook for reducing exposure when people's homes are being sprinkled with lead dust from the sky."
The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People - The New York Times
#lead #Nigeria #environment #recycling
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/18/world/africa/lead-poisoning-car-battery.html
Special shoutout to the repair site iFixit who are now on the Fediverse, you can follow them at:
➡️ @iFixit
They provide repair forums and free repair guides for phones, computers, consoles, kitchen equipment, tools, medical devices, cars etc. They also review and tear down new gadgets to see how repairable they are.
Repairing your existing stuff is much, much better for the environment than buying replacements.
#Repairs #Electronics #DIY #Environment #Gadgets #Tech #RightToRepair
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
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Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic partner in Asia.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-halted-agent-orange-cleanup-dioxin-vietnam-poison-risk?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Vietnam #USAID #Environment #PublicHealth #USPolitics
Introducing the July/August 2025 issue of our magazine, with reporting from Sandy West on predatory adoption agencies, Chilton Tippin on international #politics and natural resources, and much more.
Become a member of the Texas Observer and get the best of our journalism, starting at just $3/month: texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join
#journalism #Texas #nonprofit #culture #news #USpol #environment #water #children
Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/national-science-foundation-trump-cuts #Researchanddevelopment #Trumpadministration #Climatecrisis #Environment #USpolitics #Science #USnews #Race
EPA to launch program that lets people adopt its lab animals amid Trump cuts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/epa-lab-animals-trump-cuts #Trumpadministration #Environment #USpolitics #Animals #Science #USnews
EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they sign a ‘declaration of dissent’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/epa-employees-administrative-leave #USEnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Environment #USpolitics #Pollution #Society #USnews #Health
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS.
Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in funding for “forever chemicals” research.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-pfas-drinking-water?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Environment #EPA #PFAS #PublicHealth #ForeverChemicals #Trump
The administration is trying to kill every program that pops up in a search for the word “climate.” In the process, the heart is being cut out of agencies that produce information that the state needs to manage its environmental threats. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-doge-cuts-disaster-aid/
#weather #Trump #FEMA #politics #USpol #news #Texas #environment #ClimateChange
Poisoned water and scarred hills
The price of the rare earth metals the world buys from China
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-66cdf862-5e96-4e6e-90b8-a407b597c8d9
Here is my round up of the best #PositiveNews that I shared in 2025 about the #Environment and #Climate
https://primonatura.co.uk/the-top-environmental-headlines-from-2025/
8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
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Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.
https://www.propublica.org/article/groundwater-fresh-water-depletion-research-science-advances-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Science #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Water #NASA #Data
New today: It’s a different camp, different year, different creek, but the same story. This story—the one where the Hill Country experiences devastating and unexpected flash #floods following an intense period of extended drought—is a familiar one for those of us who grew up in the area. https://www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/
#Kerrville #KerrCounty #Texas #CentralTexas #flooding #history #environment #weather #politics #USpol #news #ClimateChange
TCE Is Linked to Heart Defects in Babies, Cancer and Parkinson’s. Republicans in Congress Want to Reverse a Ban on It.
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The toxic substance, used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, has been linked to a host of serious health problems. A Biden-era ban on the chemical has faced multiple challenges since Trump took office.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tce-ban-cancer-parkinsons-trump-republicans?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The soil in Denmark is polluted.
"In the past six months, researchers from Danish universities have examined and analysed soil samples collected by 30,000 schoolchildren last year.
The researchers' first findings now show that there are findings of man-made chemicals in *all the soil samples*.
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In addition, in about 80 percent of the samples, there are finds of PFAS."
Full Danish article on dr.dk
Let's do less harm.
Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
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Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-greenhouse-gas-reporting-climate-crisis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #EPA #Environment #Trump #Climate #ClimateChange #Pollution
Feds pull $4M in funding from Princeton for pushing ‘alarming climate scenarios’
#environment
Princeton attacked for telling the truth
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
#News #Trump #DOGE #Data #Climate #Health #Environment #Immigration #Science #Education
We’re proud to welcome to the Observer masthead @candicequestions and Mary Tuma as special investigative correspondents, joining @stevanzetti as freelance reporters helping us tackle the #environment, reproductive rights, and #extremism respectively: https://www.texasobserver.org/home/staff/
#ReproductiveRights #abortion #healthcare #ClimateChange #news #fascism #journalism #nonprofit #media #environment
Earthjustice President Describes a “Fundamentally Different” Era of Hostility Toward Environmentalists
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Abigail Dillen sees the increase of lawsuits targeting green groups as just one of the growing threats to environmental advocacy organizations — and the people who staff them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/earthjustice-abigail-dillen-q-a?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #EarthDay #Earth #Science #Environment #Climate #Trump
The Loop Farmer is a permaculture farmer and solarpunk enthusiast. They make videos about small scale farming and the importance of sustainability and humanity. You can follow their account at:
They have already uploaded a few videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at https://spectra.video/a/the_loop_farmer/videos
You can also follow their Mastodon account at @theloopfarm
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Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
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A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supercharging the system.
https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-ranchers-public-lands-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Government #Trump #Environment #Grazing #PublicLands #Tax
