Timef 09/18/2025
- E.P.A. Keeps Polluters on the Hook to Clean Up ‘Forever Chemicals’ nytimes.com2025-09-18 23:37:04
The decision came despite an effort by a former industry lawyer who is now at the E.P.A. to reverse the regulation.
- Wildfire Smoke Will Kill Thousands More by 2050, Study Finds nytimes.com2025-09-18 23:35:13
Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters.
- Kennedy to Announce Firing of Organ Transplant Group After Safety Problems nytimes.com2025-09-18 22:13:26
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to announce that the U.S. is firing a Miami-based organ donation coordinator, effectively closing it down — a warning to other transplant groups.
- Do Reptiles Have Moods, Too? nytimes.com2025-09-18 22:00:05
Long dismissed as unintelligent, reptiles are emerging as cognitively and emotionally complex animals. A new study involving tortoises suggests that they also possess mood states.
- RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Committee to Vote on Hepatitis B and Covid Shots nytimes.com2025-09-18 17:04:42
The advisory committee, which will meet on Thursday and Friday, is expected to recommend limiting use of some vaccines, including the hepatitis B shot for newborns.
- Trump Administration Stopping Efforts to Collect Scientific Data nytimes.com2025-09-18 17:04:11
A pattern of getting rid of statistics has emerged that echoes the president’s first term, when he suggested if the nation stopped testing for Covid, it would have few cases.
- Support for Federal Vaccine Policy May Be Eroding nytimes.com2025-09-18 06:41:41
Insurers suggested they would still cover routine shots even if a C.D.C. panel tried to limit them, as an influential senator warned against new restrictions.
- Susan Monarez, Fired C.D.C. Director, to Testify About Her Clash With Kennedy nytimes.com2025-09-18 04:40:50
At a Senate health committee hearing, Dr. Susan Monarez painted a picture of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a man wedded to his own ideology and uninterested in government scientists.
- Western States Issue Their Own Vaccine Recommendations to Counter Kennedy nytimes.com2025-09-18 02:28:36
The guidelines, from California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii, mirror those of major medical organizations. They were issued a day before an advisory panel was set to meet to review potential changes to federal recommendations.
- A New Review of Climate Science Could Cause Headaches for Trump nytimes.com2025-09-18 02:28:10
The report, by a panel of leading researchers, raises questions about the administration’s legal justification for looser pollution controls.
