National (U.S.)

"As president, Donald J. Trump slashed protections for clean air and water and weakened school nutrition standards."

"The plastics industry uses a controversial accounting method to inflate the recycled content it advertises in products. A new EPA policy won’t allow it for any products it endorses as a “Safer Choice.”"

"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has revoked a Trump-era decision that would have opened millions of acres of federal land in Alaska to energy development and mining."

"A Las Vegas, Nevada, jury on Wednesday found a former elected county official guilty of killing an investigative reporter who wrote critical articles about him, sentencing him to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 20 years."

"Buried in the earth, almost too small to see, seeds have long been underestimated — dismissed as mere inert specks, barely even considered alive. Yet the more closely researchers have examined these embryonic plants, the more they have learned about their dynamism and endurance."

"Barb Boustead remembers learning about corn sweat when she moved to Nebraska about 20 years ago to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and found herself plunked down in an ocean of corn. The term for the late-summer spike in humidity from corn plants cooling themselves was “something that locals very much know about,” Boustead, a meteorologist and climatologist, recalled."

"The Sunrise Movement plans to contact 1.5 million Americans about voting for Kamala Harris. But it is waiting to decide about endorsing her until her climate plans are clearer."

"An internal watchdog criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) top air official for participating in the development of a rule that regulates an industry in which he reportedly had financial holdings."

"Soil, plants and water along popular recreation spots near Los Alamos, New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, are contaminated with “extreme concentrations” of plutonium, a new study has found, but calls for the federal government to act have been dismissed."

"The consultants, who worked for Dow, the pesticide’s manufacturer, help corporate interests defend their products against environmental and health regulations."