#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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Are You Glad To Be In America?
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#RIP James Blood Ulmer. One of the greats.
“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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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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Bruggers was known to colleagues as a dogged reporter and a generous coworker, and to sources as an honest watchdog.
Regulators insist they’re committed to protecting health and the environment, yet continue to allow growers to use a deadly chemical banned in 40 countries.
"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...
