Reporter for Inside Climate News. Focus on ag, oil and gas, conservation, environmental justice. Live and work on unceded Lisjan Ohlone land. (she/her) SEJ, IRE, AHCJ, SPJ NorCal
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#Environmental #journalism lost one of its best this week. @jbruggers.bsky.social, a dogged watchdog and @sejorg.bsky.social stalwart, "was the kind of reporter all the reporters on our staff wanted to be,” said @vernonloeb.bsky.social. “Everyone loved him.”
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"We do not require randomized trials of parachutes before concluding they prevent death when people jump from airplanes. ...sometimes, after decades of evidence, we should simply say: this exposure causes harm." blanphear.substack.com/p/the-burden...
Community groups sued Calif. multiple times to force regulators to enact health-protective rules for a cancer-causing fumigant that's banned in 40 countries. Instead, the Dept. of Pesticide Regulation passed two different safety targets for the same chemical, using several questionable assumptions.
Are You Glad To Be In America?
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#RIP James Blood Ulmer. One of the greats.
The two 1,3-D rules say people living near fields can be exposed to 14x the level CA health experts say is safe and ~2x the level set for workers. They also assume workers only work when 1,3-D is less likely to escape from treated fields, ignoring actual work hours.
Bottom line: the disproportionate burden of exposure to pesticides like the carcinogen 1,3-D falls on people of color, mostly Latino immigrants. Bottom line: CA regs are placing farmworkers, their families and communities at risk with regulations that fail to protect public health. /end
“Their new regulations are failures,” said @ca4pesticidereform.bsky.social's Mark Weller, referring to California's 1,3-D rules. Both applications and emissions of the cancer-causing fumigant rose after regulators implemented rules they said would reduce risks.
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Once again, Calif., the self-proclaimed #environmental leader, shows a shocking lack of leadership, this time in regard to #carnivore #conservation by failing to fund programs to manage the state's rebounding wolf population and resolve inevitable conflicts.
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What if all industrially procured seafood bore a label explaining exactly how it was caught? The incredibly destructive, indiscriminate killer called bottom trawling captures, kills or maims everything in its path, claiming ~19 million tons of marine life every year.
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In 2024, CA passed a rule officials said would protect communities from the cancer-causing fumigant 1,3-D. Now, a year after implementing the rule they said would reduce cancer risk, applications and emissions of the highly volatile compound have spiked. insideclimatenews.org/news/0406202...
