Calif. Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid and Toiling in Toxic Fields
"State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found."
Source: Capital & Main, 11/21/2025
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CDC Site Now Denies Scientific Conclusion That Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism
"A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a number of public health and autism experts."
Source: AP, 11/21/2025"More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30"
"More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organisations have participated at this year’s United Nations climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found."
Source: DeSmog, 11/21/2025Trump DHS Makes Major Changes To Report It Ordered On FEMA Reforms: Sources
"A draft of a much-anticipated report on reforms to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been whittled down in size, with recommendations compiled by a council appointed by the president slashed and amended by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s office, according to three people familiar with the developments."
Source: AP, 11/21/2025"With US Absent, China Asserts Itself at World’s Biggest Climate Summit"
"On the opening day at COP30, the United Nations’ annual climate summit, the scene was emblematic of a shifting order. With the United States absent, all eyes were on China."
Source: Sierra, 11/21/2025"Conservation Leaders Unite to Oppose Steve Pearce BLM Nomination"
"The Trump pick to lead the land management agency has ties to anti-government extremists"
Source: Sierra, 11/21/2025An Alabama City Council OKs Rezoning for Big Data Center, Dividing Community
"After the Bessemer City Council voted 5-2 to rezone nearly 700 acres of agricultural land for the “hyperscale” server farm, a dissenting council member said city officials who signed non-disclosure agreements weren’t being transparent with citizens."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/21/2025Makah Tribe’s Treaty-Protected Whaling Rights Remain Blocked 2+ Decades Later
"Despite the Makah Tribe’s success in getting a waiver to carry out their exclusive treaty right for whaling, the permitting process that had dragged on for over 20 years has now been effectively delayed another year and a half – because of bogged-down federal bureaucracy. The Makah Tribe is the only one in the Lower 48 that has an exclusive treaty right to whaling."
Source: ICT, 11/21/2025India Delays Climate Pledge, Pressures Rich Nations On Funding At COP30
"India is unlikely to submit its climate pledge before the end of the annual United Nations climate summit, raising questions about how the world’s most populous nation can influence others on confronting climate change. Experts say the delay may be a sign of India’s displeasure with a lack of progress toward funding global climate priorities. However, this can also hurt its ability to lead at the climate talks in Brazil."
Source: AP, 11/20/2025"Trump Refused To Send Disaster Aid To Chicago After 2 Devastating Storms"
"President Donald Trump, who has assailed Illinois’ governor and its largest city, denied disaster aid to thousands of Chicago residents even though his administration documented extraordinary damage from two major storms this summer, records obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News show."
Source: E&E News, 11/20/2025"Calif. Farms Applied Millions Of Pounds Of Pfas To Key Crops, Study Finds"
"California farms applied an average of 2.5m lb of Pfas “forever chemicals” per year on cropland from 2018 to 2023, or a total of about 15m lb, a new review of state records shows."
Source: Guardian, 11/20/2025Trump FWS Seeks To Roll Back Protections For Imperiled Species And Habitat
"President Donald Trump’s administration moved Wednesday to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live, reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act regulations from the Republican’s first term that were blocked under former Democratic President Joe Biden."
Source: AP, 11/20/2025The Risk And Promise Of Offshore Wind Energy In Nova Scotia
"As the federal government considers fast-tracking Wind West Atlantic Energy, residents hope for economic transformation, while some worry about impacts to seafood industry and marine ecosystems"
Source: The Narwhal, 11/20/2025"Brazil Pushes For Early COP30 Climate Deal On Fossil Fuels And Finance"
"Brazil proposes two-stage deal to expedite COP30 negotiations. Disagreements persist on finance and emissions cuts. Group of countries call for roadmap to ditch fossil fuels."
Source: Reuters, 11/19/2025"Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People"
"Poisonous dust falls from the sky over the town of Ogijo, near Lagos, Nigeria. It coats kitchen floors, vegetable gardens, churchyards and schoolyards. The toxic soot billows from crude factories that recycle lead for American companies."
Source: NYTimes, 11/19/2025
