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Public Media Stations In Rural US Say Emergency-Alert Funding Is In Jeopardy

"When a deadly landslide tore through part of Wrangell, Alaska, in 2023, there was only one place people there could go for information. "We're on an island, and there's one road, and everybody that lived south of that road lost everything — they lost their electricity, internet, television, phones," says Cindy Sweat, the general manager of KSTK, the community's public broadcaster. What was left, Sweat says, was the radio."

Source: NPR, 08/29/2025

"Chicago Has The Most Lead Pipes In The Nation. We Mapped Them All."

"As Gina Ramirez buckled her 11-year-old son into her car last month for their daily drive to school, she handed him a plastic water bottle."

Source: Grist/ICN/WBEZ, 08/29/2025

"How Homeless Residents Nationwide Suffer The Effects Of Hotter Summers"

"When the weather warms up in Connecticut, Clarence Braun and his wife, Holly, park their Mercury Grand Marquis in the shade or ride around with the windows down trying to cool off."

Source: NPR, 08/29/2025

RFK Jr Deputy Jim O’Neill As Acting CDC Director After Monarez Ouster: Sources

"Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill is expected to serve as acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official and another person familiar with the matter."

Source: CNN, 08/29/2025

"An Industry Insider’s Changes at the EPA Could Cost Taxpayers Billions"

"A Trump appointee has proposed rewriting a measure that requires companies to clean up “forever chemicals,” documents show. The new version would shift costs from polluters."

Source: NYTimes, 08/29/2025

Trump Climate Science Denial Hinges on … Not Saying the Word

A war on the facts behind climate change — and on the actions to address it — is well underway in the second Trump administration. The new WatchDog Opinion column takes the measure of the battlefront, eyeing key examples of the political onslaught, including a concerted effort to eradicate the very term itself. Regulations killed, research discredited, speech censored and more.

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"Hurricane Science Has Come Far Since Katrina. That Progress Is Now At Risk"

"In the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, hurricane scientists have made great strides toward understanding how climate change influences tropical cyclones, at the same time as they have vastly improved hurricane forecasting. Better forecasts, in turn, save the country billions every time a storm makes landfall, according to a 2024 analysis published in the National Bureau of Economic Research."

Source: NPR, 08/28/2025

"Parks And Museums Emerge As New Culture War Battlegrounds"

"U.S. parks and museums are becoming the latest battleground in the nation’s culture wars as President Trump seeks changes to the way national parks and the Smithsonian tell the story of America."

Source: The Hill, 08/28/2025

"Proposed NASA Cuts Could Affect Public Health Research"

"From space, NASA collects data that’s crucial for public health. Potential cuts could threaten that work."

Source: Undark, 08/28/2025

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