"It's #DEI being treated like a four-letter word," said Linda Birnbaum, a retired toxicologist & fmr director of the National Institute of #Environmental #Health #Sciences who spent 19 years at the #EPA. "People who are already most impacted by high #pollution are going to be most hurt by the loosening of #regulations."
Those #health inequities are the legacy of racial #discrimination that was legal from the country's inception until 1965, the type of historical #injustice #DEI policies were designed to correct.
#Trump also rescinded a 1994 EO by fmr Pres Bill #Clinton that directed every #FederalAgency to develop an agency-wide #EnvironmentalJustice strategy to address adverse health or #environmental effects on *minority* & #LowIncome populations.
3 #environmental researchers & 5 fmr #EPA ofcls interviewed by Reuters say the end of the EPA's #DEI & #EnvironmentalJustice programs—which seek to ensure a healthy #environment for *minority* groups that often live closest to sources of contamination - will be most felt in #Black & #Hispanic [& #Latin] communities that have long endured the harmful effects of #pollution.
Amid concern about #Glasgow's #historic buildings, it's good to see campaigners focussing on the dreadful #VAT anomaly which charges 20% on repairs, but zero on new build- making it much easier to demolish old #buildings, a #cultural and #environmental disgrace
https://news.stv.tv/west-central/glasgows-historic-buildings-under-threat-amid-soaring-repair-costs
#Photojournalist captures impacts of #climate change. Looking at the impact of natural disasters on our landscape. According to #NOAA National Centers for #Environmental Information, in 2024 US experienced 27 #weather #climate related# disasters that caused $1 billion in damage. Getty Images News Photojournalist, Justin Sullivan, details the jaw dropping photos he has taken of natural disasters, and how the paint the picture of the damage being done by climate change https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/photojournalist-captures-the-impacts-of-climate-change/
The same thing. Seriously though, no one ever talks about the #Pentagon's role when it comes to #environmental destruction
On this #EarthDay I am grateful to the winners of this year's #GoldmanEnvironmentalPrize for their #environmental activism. I watch the livestream of the award ceremony in #SanFrancisco every year as my spouse runs sound for it.
Trump Officials Weigh #EarthDay Move Against Green Groups
#WhiteHouse officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some #environmental #nonprofits of their #taxexempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s push for more domestic #oil, #gas and #coal production.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-18/trump-officials-weigh-earth-day-move-against-green-groups
https://archive.ph/8ZrIM
[#TRADESHOW] #WATERTECH #CHINA 2025, the #world’s largest #international #exhibition for #water and #wastewater #treatment, will take place from June 4–6, 2025, at the National Exhibition and #Convention #Center (NECC) in #Shanghai. #Event is the premier #platform for discovering cutting-edge #technologies in #membrane #filtration, #pipeline #systems, #environmental #monitoring, #pumps, and #valves. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/watertech-china-2025/
Regarding the Vatican’s #environmental policy, #PopeFrancis joined the fight against human-driven #ClimateChange in a 192-page encyclical that warned against “synthetic agrotoxins” and “bioaccumulation” from industrial waste. He declared pollution a sin.
As #climate emergencies intensify, the #environmental wisdom of #Indigenous people is crucial for #sustainable #development & management of #natural #resources, as Asif All Mahmud Akash argues for #bangladesh.
"Sources in Washington, including within the Department of Justice and on Capitol Hill, have told Inside Climate News that White House officials are preparing various executive orders on #environmental issues, possibly to be announced on Tuesday, to coincide with Earth Day. One order, they say, would target the tax exempt status of environmental nonprofits, particularly those that do legal work." https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18042025/trump-may-target-environmental-nonprofits-earth-day-executive-orders/
@dyckron #Indigenous nations and other #environmental stewards have been calling out the corrupt #AER for years and demanding that it be dismantled. This is just one more reason to do that.
ICYMI #Environmental and #Science Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Removal of Climate and Environmental Justice Websites and #Data https://www.ucs.org/about/news/nonprofits-sue-administration-over-removal-federal-data @ucsusa
@realTuckFrumper Justify the #space trips all you want but the amount of #environmental damage it does vastly outweighs the miniscule amount of information they obtain.
"Secretary of the Interior #DougBurgum visited two Warrior Met mines to emphasize the administration’s commitment to lifting regulations on the extraction of ‘clean beautiful #coal.’ He did not mention the company’s checkered #safety and #environmental record."
@thenarwhal This fills me with rage 
https://www.europesays.com/1999901/ what are the main challenges for environmental monitoring in 2025? Envirotech Online #Asia #Data #Environment #environmental #marine #monitoring #pollution #quality #real #sensors #water
Identifying Environmental Risk Factors and Mapping the Distribution of West Nile Virus in an Endemic Region of North America
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GH000161 <-- shared paper
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[an older paper (2018) but a good one, including showing the versatility & usefulness of #FedScience spatial datasets]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #USA #WestNile #WestNileVirus #fedscience #NationalLandCoverDatabase #NLCD #virus #publichealth #arboviruses #environment #data #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #fedscience #geocoding #environmental #landcover #physiography #climate #weather #transmission #model #regressiontree #risk #hazard #riskmaps #elevation #humidity #rainfall #precipitation #disease #soil #integrated #opendata #mosquito #satellite #SouthDakota #pasturelands #crossdiscipline #virology #remotesensing #earthobservation #Pathobiology #Epidemiology
@USGS @USGS_EROS
Greg Cocks