“If the EPA wants to convince us that our pesticide regulatory process is robust, they should make it robust,” said @loriannburd.bsky.social, the Center's environmental health director in @pbsnews.org ⬇️

Big surprise (to no one): A much-anticipated draft action plan from the Make America Healthy Again Commission eliminated any plans for action on pesticides. You cannot "Make America Healthy Again" while allowing a billion pounds of pesticides to be dosed on crops. More info: biodiv.us/3V9pInz

“There’s an epic battle brewing over the direction that the administration is going to take on toxic chemicals,” said @loriannburd.bsky.social, our Environmental Health Program Director, “But we’re also up against some of the most powerful corporate lobby groups in the country.”

Honeybees—which are domesticated livestock in no danger of extinction—usurp and replace native pollinators, including threatened species like bumblebees and butterflies, by outcompeting them for finite resources and introducing pathogens into the native population. www.wweek.com/news/2025/05...

“The EPA’s pesticide general permit creates a virtual free-for-all where most pesticide users aren’t even required to identify the pesticide being used or where it’s being sprayed directly into lakes and streams,” said Allison LaPlante, a senior environmental health attorney at the Center.

“...This speed bump gives senators a chance to ponder whether they really want to feed America’s public lands and monuments into the snapping jaws of the fracking and mining industries,” said Taylor McKinnon of the Center for Biological Diversity. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/c...

NEW: EPA is planning to eliminate requirements to report greenhouse gas emissions for thousands of facilities. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill” @maibached.bsky.social told me www.propublica.org/article/trum...

"Trump's coal orders take his worship of dirty fossil fuels to a gross and disturbingly reckless new level," said Jason Rylander ... "Forcing old coal plants to keep spewing pollution into our air and water means more cancer, more asthma and more premature deaths." www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...

“We’re determined to do what it takes to make sure the city stops discharging toxic contaminants into the Sound so that people, salmon and orcas can thrive,” said @loriannburd.bsky.social, our environmental health director.

The Center + allies filed a notice today of their intent to sue the city of Tacoma, Washington, for discharging toxic wastewater at levels that harm Puget Sound Chinook salmon, protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. More info: biodiv.us/3G0ULhi

Just me banging on again that BROADWAY employs more people than coal.

Coal's not clean or beautiful, it is horribly polluting, and this is nuttier than peanut butter. “We are committed to supporting all forms of energy, including clean beautiful coal...while ensuring we have the cleanest air, land & water on the planet,” EPA's Zeldin. www.yahoo.com/news/us-fede...

We just launched a major new lawsuit to protect threatened chinook salmon from dangerous chemicals being released in City of Tacoma wastewater. Pollutants like pesticides are causing serious harm to endangered species in Puget sound. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

We just launched a major new lawsuit to protect threatened chinook salmon from dangerous chemicals being released in City of Tacoma wastewater. Pollutants like pesticides are causing serious harm to endangered species in Puget sound. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

The "we won't let big government police our words" administration has banned the use of words like "clean water," "safe drinking water," and "water pollution" at USDA. Trump promised the U.S. will have the cleanest water in the world, how does this get us there? #MAHA newrepublic.com/post/193395/...

The "we won't let big government police our words" administration has banned the use of words like "clean water," "safe drinking water," and "water pollution" at USDA. Trump promised the U.S. will have the cleanest water in the world, how does this get us there? #MAHA newrepublic.com/post/193395/...

Biden required coal plants to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals like mercury bc they can harm babies’ brains & cause heart disease. Now Trump's offering polluters an out: email him & he may greenlight bypassing these & other major clean-air rules. How is this #MAHA? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...

Biden required coal plants to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals like mercury bc they can harm babies’ brains & cause heart disease. Now Trump's offering polluters an out: email him & he may greenlight bypassing these & other major clean-air rules. How is this #MAHA? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...

Much of coastal Costa Rica is owned by foreign land owners but the @biologicaldiversity.org has just donated 40+ acres to a group of Indigenous women for conservation and sustainable cocoa production. www.biologicaldiversity.org/resourcespac...

We’re thrilled to have won this case, but the real victory won’t come until the Trump administration acts on its promise to rein in use of dangerous pesticides like atrazine that are causing grave harms to people and wildlife alike. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Nobody voted for dirtier air and water, more asthma and cancer, or for more species to go extinct, but that’s what is coming unless we stop these catastrophic rollbacks of common sense pollution controls.

Breaking now: We just won our case challenging U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's failure to protect endangered species from dangerous pesticides, including atrazine & chlorpyrifos. Here's the press release from the filing, press release on this win coming soon. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Only in the world of Trump’s magical, corporate thinking can you pretend to be "Making America Healthy Again" while slashing protections against dangerously toxic industrial pollutants like mercury, lead and formaldehyde. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

Thanks to a legal settlement with us & others, Point Reyes National Seashore will no longer overwhelmingly prioritize private cattle operations over wildlife & public uses. But some have been unfairly denouncing the settlement. This piece breaks down the facts www.thewildlifenews.com/2025/03/08/p...

The deadline to submit your public comment at the link above is March 12th!

Good news: the overwintering eastern monarch population doubled since last year. Bad news: The migratory population is still only 1/3 of the size needed to be above risk of extinction.

Make...(*checks notes*)...poop water great again

Over 25% of pesticides use today in the U.S. is of chemicals banned in the EU, Brazil + China. The petition also seeks to ensure that imported foods are not contaminated with U.S.-banned pesticides that make it to U.S. markets due to lax and inadequate federal inspection and penalty regimes.

“We’re calling on President Trump and Secretary Kennedy to Make America Healthy Again by taking extraordinarily toxic pesticides out of our food,” said @loriannburd.bsky.social, environmental health director at the Center.

We sent a petition today urging President Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency to eliminate the use of extraordinarily toxic pesticides on U.S. food. More info: biodiv.us/4hI988f

Kinda seems like a conflict of interest??? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

“Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Our new analysis shows Biden's plan for atrazine greenlights harmful levels of pollution in 99% of the nation’s 11,249 contaminated watersheds, so we just sent the Trump admin comments urging it to ban atrazine for good. Will they #MAHA or was that just talk? biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Our new analysis shows Biden's plan for atrazine greenlights harmful levels of pollution in 99% of the nation’s 11,249 contaminated watersheds, so we just sent the Trump admin comments urging it to ban atrazine for good. Will they #MAHA or was that just talk? biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

“The public deserves to see the science underpinning the Service’s dubious conclusion that drenching millions of acres with deadly insecticides won’t harm a single endangered species,” said @loriannburd.bsky.social, environmental health director at the Center

We sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to release records documenting its finding that insecticides sprayed across millions of acres in 17 states do not harm any of the area’s 201 endangered plants and animals. More info: biodiv.us/4hngAp8

Deeply moving piece by one of my Center colleagues, who lost her family's synagogue in last weeks fires. How bitterly ironic that the fire, caused by our modern day plague of climate change, uncovered a long lost mural of the ancient Egyptian plagues. lamag.com/science/dest...

Really nice overview of the last four years of agriculture regulation under Biden. It's actually quite nice to see how much got done, albeit none of it perfectly. Now we get to spend the next four years fighting for all the positive progress to not all get undone. civileats.com/2025/01/15/h...

There is a virtual media blackout on the greatest danger of H5N1, which is not a human pandemic (bad as that would be) but its ongoing catastrophic impact on nonhuman animals throughout the world. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Lackluster regulatory response to bird flu in animals is a national embarrassment. But bird flu is also poised to be our next human pandemic. Giant factory farms create perfect conditions for it to mutate. Human to human transmission could be its next leap & regulators aren't doing much to stop it.

"It’s a dangerous time to be a child in the United States." ~Paul Offat, pediatric vaccine expert. Scientists are skeptics by the nature of the methodology they employ. Falsification rules. Maya Angelou: Cynicism moves from knowing nothing to believing nothing. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

Lackluster regulatory response to bird flu in animals is a national embarrassment. But bird flu is also poised to be our next human pandemic. Giant factory farms create perfect conditions for it to mutate. Human to human transmission could be its next leap & regulators aren't doing much to stop it.

The amount of stupid on social media right now is depressing. The billionaire Resnicks own a lot of land and a lot of water rights. They do not, contrary to a lot of the stupid, "own all California's water" or have anything to do with the L.A. fires.

My thoughts are with my loved ones whose lives are upended by the LA fires. But Trump falsely blaming the fires on “an essentially worthless fish called a smelt,” an endangered fish whose protection absolutely did not cause these fires, is worrisome indeed. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

WIN: Today a historic agreement was reached after decades of conflict regarding cattle ranching and wildlife management at Point Reyes National Seashore. More details: biodiv.us/40ss0lx 📷: Lisa Williams

My thoughts are with my loved ones whose lives are upended by the LA fires. But Trump falsely blaming the fires on “an essentially worthless fish called a smelt,” an endangered fish whose protection absolutely did not cause these fires, is worrisome indeed. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

A tough start to the year for the Southern Resident orcas and this mother and calf. We need to do more to protect these amazing marine mammals and the wild salmon they feed on, as the @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social's Brady Bradshaw says here. www.latimes.com/california/s...

This article was written to inflame +gloss over corollary issues. It worked & drummed up controversy. But the science behind its thesis is not controversial, nor novel--intensification spares land & GHGs relative to extensive ag. Some thoughts on what this misses 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o...

Experts agree bird flu has become so widespread in wild birds that it can’t be stamped out. But we can work to ensure that wildlife populations are healthy and resilient enough to survive it by tackling the other threats they’re facing. #PreventPandemics www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/s...

If half of annual child nutrition meals switched from cow’s milk to soy milk, total emissions would be reduced by 38.1%. tinyurl.com/3uy7xzna