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...

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.

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...

“It broke me to realize that in the Hamptons, plants are covered for the winter while people are left outside in the cold with nothing,” said Marit Molin, a licensed clinical social worker and the founder of Hamptons Community Outreach. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/r...

#Environmental #journalism lost one of its best this week. @jbruggers.bsky.social, a dogged watchdog and @sejorg.bsky.social stalwart, "was the kind of reporter all the reporters on our staff wanted to be,” said @vernonloeb.bsky.social. “Everyone loved him.” insideclimatenews.org/news/1906202...

What if all industrially procured seafood bore a label explaining exactly how it was caught? The incredibly destructive, indiscriminate killer called bottom trawling captures, kills or maims everything in its path, claiming ~19 million tons of marine life every year. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...

Are You Glad To Be In America? youtu.be/kox-sFTDXX8?... #RIP James Blood Ulmer. One of the greats.

Once again, Calif., the self-proclaimed #environmental leader, shows a shocking lack of leadership, this time in regard to #carnivore #conservation by failing to fund programs to manage the state's rebounding wolf population and resolve inevitable conflicts. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

In 2024, CA passed a rule officials said would protect communities from the cancer-causing fumigant 1,3-D. Now, a year after implementing the rule they said would reduce cancer risk, applications and emissions of the highly volatile compound have spiked. insideclimatenews.org/news/0406202...

“Their new regulations are failures,” said @ca4pesticidereform.bsky.social's Mark Weller, referring to California's 1,3-D rules. Both applications and emissions of the cancer-causing fumigant rose after regulators implemented rules they said would reduce risks. insideclimatenews.org/news/0406202...

"We do not require randomized trials of parachutes before concluding they prevent death when people jump from airplanes. ...sometimes, after decades of evidence, we should simply say: this exposure causes harm." blanphear.substack.com/p/the-burden...

“You could have a combustion event that could be pretty catastrophic,” said Joseph E. Shepherd, a professor at the California Institute of Technology. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

The US was the biggest WHO funder but it’s not just infectious disease that’s affected by Trump’s withdrawal. Occupational health will be even more neglected, leaving workers at risk and experts frustrated. “How many people need to die to say it’s a priority?” insideclimatenews.org/news/1605202...

California Rice Fields Offer Threatened Migratory Waterbirds a Lifeline https://www.lizagross.com/california-rice-fields-offer-threatened-migratory-waterbirds-a-lifeline/

EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk https://www.lizagross.com/epa-thought-industry-funded-scientists-could-support-its-conclusion-that-a-long-regulated-pesticide-is-not-a-cancer-risk/

Dying in the Fields as Temperatures Soar https://www.lizagross.com/dying-in-the-fields-as-temperatures-soar/

The latest chapter of the GOP war on science: House science committee leaders—who've taken nearly $550K from #fossilfuel interests—are accusing the nation's premier science org of bias and conflicts of interest for fast-tracking its report on #climate science. insideclimatenews.org/news/2404202...

My latest for @insideclimatenews.org: GOP House science committee leaders, who take $$ from the oil and gas industry, accused the nation’s premier science org for a report confirming that the harm created by human-caused GHGs “is beyond scientific dispute.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2404202...

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Scientists mourned the demise of the United States’ most important climate rule at a mock funeral in front of #EPA Region 9 headquarters in San Francisco Tuesday. “We are gathered to pay our respects to the #endangermentfinding, for the brief life it had that was taken from us too soon.”

My latest: Trump’s EPA is working to roll back Biden-era rules to protect workers, first responders and communities from chemical explosions and other accidental releases—just as climate change is making them more likely. insideclimatenews.org/news/1404202...

My latest looks at #PFAS #pesticides, which @ewgofficial.bsky.social found on conventional produce grown in CA. EWG advises consumers to wash their produce. Whether rinsing produce laced with chemicals designed to resist water would have any effect is unclear. insideclimatenews.org/news/0804202...

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

The federal government plans to install 536 miles of massive, cylindrical buoys in the Rio Grande to prevent unauthorized crossings. The buoys could cost upwards of $3 billion, at a moment when crossings are at record lows. (photo by Michael Gonzalez)

"He came up to me and said, ‘You don’t have to take that, you know? You don’t have to take that from him.'" Many ask why women stay silent. Abusive behavior leaves women traumatized, feeling powerlessness, ashamed, isolated. They often think they did something to deserve it. It's a shadow pandemic.

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

"Anna" shares, "I'm a student. During strawberry season I work in the fields with my brothers to help my mom with the rent. It is very hard because we work piece rate for 2 months-going as fast as we can. There's little work for the next 4 months so we need to save." #WeFeedYou

My latest @insideclimatenews.org: Extreme precipitation from 2023’s devastating cyclone in Peru accounted for 60% of #dengue in an unprecedented outbreak, a new study from @malar0ne.bsky.social et al. shows. Climate change made those conditions more likely. insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...

I've organized & will moderate a webinar on the health & policy crisis of ICE detention centers April 30, 1-2pm ET, open to all Register/submit questions at: childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/blog/event/t... I'd be grateful if you could circulate this Thx to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social for support

The high today is Arvin CA reached 91°. Farm workers are out under the hot sun harvesting asian vegetables for our tables. "Cristina" shares, "This work is very difficult. It is very hot as we are directly under the sun with very little shade." #WeFeedYou

We do not condone the actions of César Chávez. We will support victims. We will continue the fight for farm workers. calmatters.org/justice/2026...

Thank you @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social for running our story about a new #wine label that prioritizes the rights of the people who harvest grapes. After the news about Chavez, it's fitting that it's women who are leading the campaign to ensure #farmworkers are treated fairly and with dignity.

My latest looks at a new campaign to raise awareness about the hazardous conditions vineyard workers endure—extreme heat, wildfires, accidents—often for poverty wages. “Let’s acknowledge that wine does not start at the bottle. It starts in the...vineyard.” insideclimatenews.org/news/1803202...

The Trump admin just gave BP the green light to drill in the Gulf of Mexico, at great risk to marine life and communities www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/c..., just 15 years after the #DeepwaterHorizon blowout, which @csafina.bsky.social recounted in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

"Alicia" shared this pic from Kern County. "The lemon orchard is in bad shape, with no lemons on the trees. They still only pay us $35 per 900 lb box for juice lemons. It takes us 3-4 hours to pick that box. It's wrong. We should at least be guaranteed minimum wage." #WeFeedYou

"Ana" is tying grape vines during early am foggy conditions in Madera CA. "I must go up and down ladders all day long and secure the vines with my arms held up. By the end of the day my arms ache. It's extra cold now which makes it even harder. I earned CA min wage." #WeFeedYou

Our latest newsletter explores a type of censorship that may have gone under the radar. The federal government has erased climate change from the scientific manual judges reference. From @lizagross.bsky.social at @insideclimatenews.org

Thanks, @motherjones.com, for running our story about how highly trained ex #EPA staff are calling out the Trump admin's partisan war on the science-based regs that aim to protect our health and environment. Trump's EPA political appointees/ response? Call the scientists "Democratic operatives."

The Trump admin's assault on science continues. An @insideclimatenews.org analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows >4K employees left between 1/2025 and 1/2026, wiping out institutional knowledge. @mlavelle.bsky.social & @peteraldhous.com report insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...

GOP political appointees reduced the number of shots in the universally recommended childhood vaccine schedule, as I recently reported, even as #climatechange helps spread vaccine-preventable diseases. That's why a coalition of AGs, led by Dems in CA and AZ, sued to reinstate science-based recs.

Americans have considerably more confidence in federal career scientists and indep. medical groups re: public health and vaccine policy than they do in the political appointees running U.S. health agencies, a new poll finds www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stark-divide...

A similar thing happened with the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence's #climatescience chapter, which was *erased* after 27 GOP AGs claimed this extensively vetted, peer-reviewed independent science resource was biased against US energy production. insideclimatenews.org/news/0303202...

Exposure to pollution is a choice, former EPA experts say in a new report. And Trump’s EPA is choosing to make Americans sicker.

My latest for @insideclimatenews.org. More than two dozen authors of an influential objective scientific resource for judges condemned a recent political attack on the reference manual by Republican AGs, who succeeded in erasing a chapter on climate science. insideclimatenews.org/news/0303202...

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that. Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

Lots happening in the world, but I hope folks can take a minute to catch up on the shocking number of rollbacks EPA is moving forward and their impact on increased exposure to toxic pollutant and health risks.

States Sue to Block Trump’s ‘Anti-Science’ #Vaccine Policy @lizagross.bsky.social reports for @insideclimatenews.org #news #environment EJ Today Headlines: sej.org/headlines/list @sejorg.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2602202...

New in @insideclimatenews.org. Exposure to pollution is a choice, former EPA experts with @enviroprotnet.bsky.social say in a new report. And by enacting a steady stream of regulatory rollbacks on toxics, they say, Trump’s EPA is making Americans sicker. insideclimatenews.org/news/2702202...

Brilliant thread from @aetiology.bsky.social The wellness grifters/anti-vaxxers like Casey Means & RFK Jr always ALWAYS accuse physicians, scientists, & regulators of being corrupted by industry when in fact THEY’RE the ones who are totally & utterly corrupted by hawking woo woo bullshit products