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First POLITICO: Several states are joining anti-abortion groups' push to ban abortion pills over unproven claims they're contaminating the environment. Their crusade may appeal to RFK Jr. who yesterday pledged to investigate the pills politico.com/news/2025/01/3… w/ Ariel Wittenberg

Actually, Kennedy did say he thinks Lyme disease was created as a bioweapon--on his own podcast, almost exactly a year ago. He has said similar about many other infectious diseases. eenews.net/articles/biowe…

RFK Jr just told the Senate he "never believed" Lyme disease was created as a bioweapon. But he devoted an entire episode of his podcast to promoting the (debunked) conspiracy theory in Jan 2024. My latest for E&E News on RFK's Lyme flip flops subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

The acting chief financial officer of EPA paused all in-agency work on both IRA and BIL programs on Monday, and also froze obligated grant funding under those laws. subscriber.politicopro.com/eenews/f/eenew…

SCOOP from me & Marcia Brown: USDA ordered to scrub climate change from its websites. politico.com/news/2025/01/3…

Lyme patients hope the Trump admin will boost funding, even as RFK jr comes under fire for conspiracies “It’s irrelevant at this point to focus on the origins — what we do know for sure is that people are suffering," one advocate told me. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

And with that, RFK jr's nomination advances out of Committee

A worker was electrocuted at a Tesla plant in August. OSHA had an early-Feb. deadline to decide whether or not to cite Tesla in his death. Now, the Department of Labor is DOGE's next target. My latest for E&E News with Mike Lee subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

My latest on the "watchlist" targeting federal health officials who have worked on equity issues--including the head of HHS' climate office. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

Trump's OSHA Pick-- a former top UPS safety exec who oversaw the company as dozens of workers were hospitalized for heat exposure. My latest for E&E News subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

Trump/RFK may say they want to "Make America Healthy Again" by rooting out "corporate influence or cronyism," but many Trump nominees to the EPA have worked on behalf of industry to role back health-based pollution limits My latest for E&E News eenews.net/articles/can-t…

RFK jr has been mercury poisoned from eating fish, & used his fish-fighting credentials to get confirmed to HHS, where he promised to get chemicals out of food. But he's been silent as EPA promises to rollback mercury rules My latest for E&E News eenews.net/articles/rfk-j…

The Trump admin has cancelled NIH's Scientific Integrity Policy, meant to prevent political interference in research, over its stated commitment to diversity. My latest for E&E News subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

Remember that lead / applesauce case from a few years ago? HHS fired the CDC folks who tracked down all the poisoned kids. They were helping Milwaukee respond to a lead poisoning crisis that could affect 68K kids when they got the notice. My latest. eenews.net/articles/milwa…

Elon Musk's AI company xAI chose Memphis for a huge new data center, powered by 35 gas turbines that enviros estimate are a major producer of smog-forming pollution. It has no federal air permits. "Our lungs" are "on the auction block," a state rep says. By Ariel Wittenberg

Last year @PENGuild became one of the first unions to win AI protections in a contract. Now, we're going for another breakthrough: The first to go into legal battle against violations of those protections. Read it here in WIRED : wired.com/story/politico…

Reading "Inside Trump’s purge of federal heat experts" subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews… via E&E News Ariel Wittenberg