Ariel Wittenberg
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Brain-eating amoeba-linked death highlights new climate risk
Climate change-induced warming means the amoeba can now be present in areas of the country where it didn’t used to be and has extended the amoeba’s life → Read More
Packing a hurricane go bag? Don't forget your birth control.
With abortion access either severely limited or outright banned in many hurricane-prone jurisdictions, reproductive health experts say ensuring access to → Read More
Biden's lead-cleanup plan targets schools, day care centers
The Biden administration released a lead action plan today that targets reducing young children's exposure to lead. That includes establishing a → Read More
EPA eyes health advisory revamp for key 'forever chemicals'
EPA has asked agency advisers to reassess the health effects of the two most notorious "forever chemicals,” a move that could translate into stronger regulations. → Read More
CLIMATE: Medical students push for classes on warming's health impacts
During her first year of medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, the wildfire smoke was so bad that Karly Hampshire had to wear an N95 mask to protect herself. The Camp Fire blaze miles away had created a haze on campus so thick that Hampshire couldn't see the horizon. → Read More
BRISTOL BAY: Conservation deal imperils Pebble mine
A key Alaska Native corporation has entered a conservation deal that likely dooms the Pebble mine. → Read More
CLEAN WATER ACT: Final Trump WOTUS rule expected soon
The Trump administration is expected to finalize a rule limiting which waterways are protected by the Clean Water Act this month, with some speculating the regulation could be unveiled as soon as Friday. → Read More
EPA: 'Virtual hearings' on rule rollbacks spark protests
EPA is facing criticism for relying on "virtual" hearings to collect public input on two regulatory rollbacks. → Read More
EPA: 'Opportunity to strike': Inside kids' health office shake-up
Internal emails and personnel records obtained by E&E News shed light on the ouster of Ruth Etzel from EPA's Office of Children's Health Protection. They detail the investigation of the health office chief as well as the campaign by the agency's press office to push back as her departure gained national attention. → Read More
BRISTOL BAY: EPA kills proposed Pebble 'veto'
EPA has lifted the Obama-era proposed "veto" of the Pebble mine, reversing a decision last year not to scrap the pending mining restrictions on the massive copper and gold project upstream from Alaska's Bristol Bay. → Read More
BORDER WALL: If people can't get through, neither can the river
PALOMINAS, Ariz. -- The San Pedro River is the only current gap in 45 miles of existing border fence here in southern Arizona, funneling human immigrants and migratory animals across the border when it's dry and crucial water for the arid landscape when it's rainy. The Department of Homeland Security has plans to build a concrete barrier through the riverbed, troubling Trump supporters and… → Read More
BORDER WALL: If people can't get through, neither can the river
PALOMINAS, Ariz. -- The San Pedro River is the only current gap in 45 miles of existing border fence here in southern Arizona, funneling human immigrants and migratory animals across the border when it's dry and crucial water for the arid landscape when it's rainy. The Department of Homeland Security has plans to build a concrete barrier through the riverbed, troubling Trump supporters and… → Read More
EPA plan to end funding for children’s health research leaves scientists scrambling
The headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Rob Crandall/Alamy Stock Photo EPA plan to end funding for children’s health research leaves scientists scrambling Despite repeatedly expressing public support for children’s health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to… → Read More
SCIENCE: EPA cuts off funding for kids' health research centers
The Trump administration is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, imperiling several long-running studies of pollutants' effects on child development. The move comes despite EPA officials' repeatedly expressing public support for children's health, and critics say it is part of a broader effort to downplay science that could lead to stricter… → Read More
CLEAN WATER ACT: EPA won't regulate pollution that moves through groundwater
EPA won't use the Clean Water Act to regulate any pollution that first moves through groundwater before it reaches surface waters, addressing questions about the scope of the law but further muddying an upcoming Supreme Court case on the same issue. → Read More
WHITE HOUSE: What's in Trump's energy orders?
President Trump is heading to Texas to sign executive orders aimed at boosting oil and gas. But will the industry actually benefit? → Read More
WETLANDS: Years after Supreme Court win, Sacketts lose fight with EPA
After winning the right to challenge EPA enforcement orders in a major 2011 Supreme Court ruling, Michael and Chantell Sackett have lost their case. → Read More
CLEAN WATER ACT: EPA won't extend WOTUS comment period
The Trump administration won't give the public more time to weigh in on its proposed rule restricting the reach of the Clean Water Act. → Read More
CLEAN WATER ACT: Realtors care about cropland in WOTUS, too. Here's why
The National Association of Realtors wants some kinds of farm fields to remain unregulated under the Clean Water Act. But the group doesn't want to talk about it. → Read More
CONGRESS: 'Nobody could do it like John Dingell could'
Lawmakers today memorialized the life of former House dean John Dingell, touting the Michigan Democrat's record-setting career in public service as well as a long list of legislative victories, including the nation's bedrock environmental laws. → Read More