My latest @insideclimatenews.org. A CA bill would “phase out the use of PFAS pesticides once and for all,” its author promised. That was before a nearly $1 million-dollar lobbying campaign by agricultural and chemical industry interests gutted its ambition. insideclimatenews.org/news/0909202...

Industry Interests Spent Big Money to Stop California From Banning PFAS Pesticides - Inside Climate News

An ambitious bill to keep toxic “forever chemicals” off California produce lost its teeth after the chemical and agricultural industry spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying against it. The b...

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The several-story-high mass coming out of nowhere to explode buildings and snap bridges was…like a bomb, some said…. The rapid destabilization of glaciers and permafrost that can remake entire landscapes in the blink of an eye….Our fossil fuel burning is pulling down the world’s highest peaks.

Opinion | Mountains Are Coming Undone

The burning of fossil fuels is pulling down the world’s highest peaks.

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We’re seeing the deadly consequences of having a person who peddles misinformation about vaccines in charge of US health policy and then says he isn’t responsible www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Video: The C.D.C. Is Waging a Political Fight Over Measles Deaths

After Pennsylvania reported two measles deaths, the C.D.C. took the highly unusual step of challenging the state. Our reporter Apoorva Mandavilli explains how this tension between the Trump administra...

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Thank you, @jamellebouie.net, for writing about Pierre Damas Bel, a young man whose hopes and dreams were destroyed by lies, hate and politicians. Families who lost loved ones deserve to know if those responsible for spreading lies and hate will be held accountable. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...

Opinion | Pierre Damas Bel Should Still Be Alive (Gift Article)

The price of unprotected status can be very high.

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#Monarch caterpillars doing well on their #milkweed for now.

Inside Climate News shared its findings—including that lawsuits against the worst polluters have "fallen off a cliff" during Trump 2.0—with the EPA, @peteraldhous.com reports. The agency asked for a deadline extension to comment, then ultimately stopped responding to emails.

Inside Climate News@insideclimatenews.org · last wk.

Today’s EPA seems preoccupied with slapping public water systems on the wrist for failing to complete inventories of their lead water pipes. Notorious industrial polluters, meanwhile, are often getting a free pass.

New from me: More than 1,200 of the 15,000-plus chemicals added to food packaging materials cause cancer or other serious health harms, new @foodpackagingforum.org research shows. But most have no publicly available information to assess risks. insideclimatenews.org/news/0109202...

No One Knows All the Toxic Chemicals You’re Eating - Inside Climate News

More than 1,000 chemicals that migrate from packaging into food pose serious health risks, a new study shows. But the vast majority of chemicals lack enough information to tell if they’re safe.

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California farmers use a dizzying array of plastic materials to produce the crops that feed the nation. But as scientists document microplastics accumulating in soil and waterways, they’re urging legislators to find sustainable alternatives.

Can California Farmers Break Free From Plastic? - Inside Climate News

Microplastics in waterways and soil are fueling calls to reduce the pervasiveness of plastic in agriculture.

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Nos complace compartir la traducción al español de nuestro reportaje sobre cómo los habitantes indígenas xincas de Guatemala, que carecen de servicio de recolección de basura, están trabajando para dejar de quemar residuos plásticos como método para deshacerse de ellos.

Empoderando a las comunidades guatemaltecas afectadas por el plástico - Inside Climate News

Integrantes de las comunidades xincas queman plástico para deshacerse de él y avivar el fuego para cocinar, sin saber que así exponen a sus familias y al medioambiente a contaminantes mortales. Un amb...

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Agricultural use of #plastics is so engrained it's called "#plasticulture." Scientists are finding microplastics in waterways and soil, potentially contaminating high-value crops. Reducing plastic on farms is likely going to require legislative action, experts say. My latest @insideclimatenews.org

Can California Farmers Break Free From Plastic? - Inside Climate News

Microplastics in waterways and soil are fueling calls to reduce the pervasiveness of plastic in agriculture.

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That's five measles deaths under RFK's watch. He says people get measles every year, and that Amish/Mennonite communities have low vaccination rates. But we didn't have nationwide outbreaks until he became HHS secretary. And before him, there were no measles deaths for 35 years.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2w ago

BREAKING: Two unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania, the first fatalities related to the disease in the U.S. this year.

Plant #native #milkweed and they will come. #GardeningforPollinators #monarchs #westernmonarchs

Apparently it’s #blackcat appreciation day. Here’s Cosmo, aka Kaze ❤️.

ICYMI: In a country where more than half of the population lives in poverty, most people lack access to waste-collection services, particularly in rural regions. Nearly 3/4 of households in the Guatemalan countryside burn their waste, including plastic. #PlasticPollutionCrisis #PlasticPollution

Liza Gross@lizagross.bsky.social · 4w ago

A massive influx of plastic has reached even remote Xinca villages in Guatemala, where people lack garbage services and burn plastic to get rid of it, releasing toxic fumes. I went to investigate w/nurse-scientist @lisamthompson.bsky.social and her team and @michaelkodas.bsky.social. A thread /1

‘…“It’s heartbreaking to see what’s happening. It’s decades of progress being washed away,” says Rajat Khosla, executive director of WHO’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. …’

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4w ago

Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.

A massive influx of plastic has reached even remote Xinca villages in Guatemala, where people lack garbage services and burn plastic to get rid of it, releasing toxic fumes. I went to investigate w/nurse-scientist @lisamthompson.bsky.social and her team and @michaelkodas.bsky.social. A thread /1

Empowering Guatemalan Villagers Plagued by Plastic - Inside Climate News

Indigenous Xinca villagers burn plastic to dispose of it and stoke cooking fires, unwittingly exposing themselves, their children and environment to deadly pollutants. An ambitious project aims to cha...

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“Our people are dying.” That's what farmworker activist Dolores Huerta said Tuesday before an oversight hearing Calif. legislators held on pesticide regulators. If Calif. is really the green leader it claims to be, why does it allow growers to use pesticides so toxic scores of countries ban them?

California Pesticide Agency Hopelessly Captured by Industry, Critics Charge - Inside Climate News

State regulators face calls to better protect low-income, Spanish-speaking immigrants from pesticide exposure in agricultural communities.

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At a legislative oversight hearing in Sacramento where an Assembly member, who seems sincerely concerned about how her constituents can get better info about pesticides had never heard of Cal EnviroScreen, a tool that documents cumulative burdens for #EJ communities that's been around for years.

Oh, my. The fossil fuel industry lying and dissembling and pretending it cares about its climate upheaval dangers — what a surprise. insideclimatenews.org/news/2807202...

ExxonMobil Uses Corporate Arbitration System to Challenge Climate Solution It Promotes - Inside Climate News

The oil giant has filed a notice of dispute under an energy treaty about the European Union’s carbon capture and storage requirements.

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New from me: research from @mboudreaux.bsky.social's team finds that #wildfire #smoke now causes more #prenatal bad air days than emissions from vehicles, factories and other human sources, placing low-income, rural and Indigenous communities at greatest risk. insideclimatenews.org/news/0708202...

Wildfire Smoke Is Now a Bigger Prenatal Threat Than Human Sources of Air Pollution - Inside Climate News

As regulations have reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions from vehicles and industry in recent years, smoke from climate-fueled wildfires is erasing air quality gains.

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"Of nearly 3,000 cougar kill sites documented across the Olympic Peninsula during almost 10 years of research, about 50 involved domestic animals," said @pantheracats.bsky.social's Mark Elbroch. >2% of cats' diet is an outsize source of conflict w/humans. www.sequimgazette.com/2026/07/29/w...

What the cougar on the Dungeness was saying - Sequim Gazette

Two mornings, two sightings, and a call that carried half a mile along the Dungeness. What an Olympic Peninsula cougar researcher makes of it, and why we are better off with the cats than without them...

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More measles cases have been reported in the US in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined. If only there were some way to prevent measles, one of the most contagtious infectous diseases known..... #VaccineMisinformation #RFKJr www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane (Gift Article)

More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.

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Renewable fuel refinery workers aren't covered by CA safety rules for petroleum refineries. But making biofuels is just as dangerous and nearly killed a man at the plant where workers have been striking to get more staff and safer working conditions, so another worker doesn't nearly burn to death.

Inside Climate News@insideclimatenews.org · 2mo ago

Workers at a California biofuels refinery are walking around “basically intoxicated” because they’ve been sleep deprived from so much overtime, union reps say. They fear it’s just a matter of time before disaster strikes.

I spoke with @lizagross.bsky.social about my ongoing efforts to ensure that the refineries in the Bay Area are safe both for workers and for the communities that surround them. (1/2)

California Biofuel Refinery Workers Say Understaffing and Fatigue Threaten Their Safety and the Community - Inside Climate News

After a catastrophic fire at a Bay Area renewable fuel refinery nearly killed a worker, his union colleagues fought for stronger protections. Now they’re locked out.

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After a worker at a Calif. renewable fuels refinery almost died in an accident, his coworkers went on strike to improve ongoing safety issues. Now they’re locked out and fear a catastrophic accident could happen. 1/ insideclimatenews.org/news/2307202...

California Biofuel Refinery Workers Say Understaffing and Fatigue Threaten Their Safety and the Community - Inside Climate News

After a catastrophic fire at a Bay Area renewable fuel refinery nearly killed a worker, his union colleagues fought for stronger protections. Now they’re locked out.

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It's hard to figure out what farm your blueberries come from, @propublica.org reporter @maxblau.bsky.social discovered. But he did find that one contractor hired by a farm that supplied his blueberries was responsible for some of the abuses in one of America's largest labor trafficking prosecutions.

Do My Grocery Store Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed?

Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem?

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Today I am involuntarily smoking 3 cigarettes because of the abject failure of my government to respond to the findings of climate science which entirely predicted these kinds of fires years ago. Here’s the AQI to cigarette calculator: jasminedevv.github.io/AQI2cigarett...

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m a survivor of two different cancers. Yesterday I smoked 15 cigarettes. Today I’ll smoke only 1. Find out how many cigarettes you are involuntarily smoking due to utter failure of government to protect the general welfare by addressing the climate crisis: jasminedevv.github.io/AQI2cigarett...

Thankful for @healthjournalism.org travel fellowship to #HJ26 in May in the Twin Cities, where I wrote about #AI in medicine healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/07.... Doctors are using AI to cope with ever-expanding mountains of health data, but they're understandably cautious.

Doctors are embracing AI, with reservations

Most physicians say AI improves their ability to care for patients, said a panelist at HJ26, even as they worry about ethical challenges, data privacy risks and its potential to skew research.

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Hazardous chemical accidents on the rise: The number of accidents involving releases of dangerous chemicals rose by 57% between 2021 and 2025. The Trump administration poised to roll back rules intended to protect workers and communities. @lizagross.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/3006202...

Chemical Accidents Rise as Trump Administration Proposes Weakening Safety Rules - Inside Climate News

Hazardous chemical releases from industrial accidents that injured or killed people increased by nearly 50 percent in recent years, new analysis shows.

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EPA released a tool in 2024 that let people see what chemical hazards exist in their community. The Trump administration removed that right-to-know tool web.archive.org/web/20240322... and proposed weakening the Biden EPA's strengthened rules to protect workers and communities from disasters.

How to Access Risk Management Plan Information | US EPA

FOIAonline allows the public to electronically submit/modify a FOIA request, check its status, search previously submitted requests, view responsive documents that are cleared for release, and file an...

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Liza Gross@lizagross.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hazardous chemical releases from industrial accidents that injured or killed people increased by >50% in recent years, yet the Trump administration has proposed several provisions in a new rule designed to prevent such accidents. More at @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/3006202...