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JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

This is a damning look at Utah's public health priorities. Workers who could be infected by the sick mink? No one cares. The state's AG dept will only "share information about bird flu outbreaks on farms — so long as the health officials didn’t do anything to track workers’ health."

The social safety net is decimated while Musk and company get wealthier. This shit makes the "Gilded Age" look quaint.

What does Jared Kushner actually do with all that Saudi oil-dictator cash? After Trump hyped a massive gas plant and Amazon data center in tiny Homer City, Pa., Kushner and his Arab money bought into the project It's a climate disaster My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/hype...

NEW: A 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons site. Eight years later, the DOE has spent nearly $12 million fighting to deny them benefits. with @cascadepbs.org

A woman in Arkansas was seeking care for a life-threatening miscarriage. Under the state’s strict abortion ban, no doctor would treat her. “Our hands are tied behind our backs,” one doctor told her. “Tell your friends to vote differently.” (Published May)

Jasmine Bernard, 17, speaks out on health impacts of data centers in Memphis. She and others addressed the Memphis City Council about air that smells like rotten eggs, worsening asthma & increasing hospital visits. She & others called for a moratorium on new data center development. The Mayor choked

"Saturday Night Live" made fun of "Mr. Wonderful" Kevin O'Leary, and the "Shark Tank" investor's plan for a data center in Box Elder County. "You have to understand — I don't live there," the fake O'Leary said.

Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland after it felled 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest in Muhos plus 200 hectares in Kajaani without completing an environmental impact assessment (EIA). www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NEW: What comes after Trump and RFK Jr.? Public health has been decimated but what was there before wasn’t enough either. I'm launching the Public Health for America Working Group to build a public health system that can't be broken.

Not sure I’ve ever seen an essay that so precisely hits the mark as this. Read it. Share it.

12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2

Within the Great Salt Lake Basin, next to imperiled wetlands: Developer eyes ‘GoldMine’ data center project in Fairfield, near Eagle Mountain’s Meta campus utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/09/25/d...

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

There's too much talent trapped in poverty and too much mediocrity funded. Just sayin.

ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”

The judge asked the govt if the Kennedy Center is going bankrupt. You should've seen them backpedal Why so fast? If it's broke, a court puts someone else in charge & they lose control of it @cnn.com👇 -TN

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694 Video Diaries, One Message: The System Failed My Dad www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

As data centers expand, advocates call for regulations on lights arkansasadvocate.com/2026/09/15/r...

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Wonder why Utah is one of the worst places for women?: “And as Utah’s women have spoken up, it’s male politicians, including Gov. Spencer Cox, who has made a national reputation on “disagreeing better,” have punished them.”

A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...

NEW: The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly potent greenhouse gas.

Happy Bayeux Tapestry day!! 🧵 Although it is usually presented as a story of kings and conquest, the embroidery itself was almost certainly the product of skilled female labour

"The report builds on modeling from academic researchers that projects that air pollution from data centers could contribute to roughly 600,000 asthma symptom cases, 1,300 premature deaths and more than $20 billion in annual public health costs by 2028."

More than three times as many people have now died of 9/11-related illnesses as were killed on that terrible day — and three-quarters of the New Yorkers here now weren’t here then.

Just handing a piece of our national park over to some developer to profit off of, just another Friday in the USA.

I used to live in a quiet area - now there's a data centre overlooking my garden

He should resign - but of course he’s a malignant narcissist so he’ll call this report ‘lies’ and carry on gleefully creating harm.

This is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.

I’m using my executive authority to ban nonferrous mining in the Boundary Waters.    As far as my administration is concerned, the fight for the future of the Boundary Waters is over. The verdict is in. The decision is made. We will protect this place.

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff. An "extraordinary" fire season is testing those who are left.

Some U.S. federal prisons have fewer books than people — and not a single one employs a trained librarian. Patrick Parr investigates the neglected state of America’s prison libraries.

“Paraquat is the most acutely lethal #pesticide ever made,” said Nathan Donley, environmental health science director with the Center for Biological Diversity. “We’re really the last major agricultural power that still uses #paraquat, and we use a ton of it."

Amazon is building the nation’s largest fossil fuel plant exclusively to power artificial intelligence As my colleague @emilypont.bsky.social notes, the plant’s permit allows for essentially double the emissions of the most polluting power plant in the U.S.

just like twitter! www.actionnews5.com/2026/08/01/c...

🔴NonStop Local KHQ | BREAKING WILDFIRE COVERAGE | Old Trails Fire in Spokane County

In addition to the potential unfolding WUI wildfire disaster in Spokane, WA, numerous other large & fast-moving fires (existing & new) are blowing up under extremely critical fire weather conditions & severe drought conditions from eastern slopes of Cascades eastward into ID/MT.

Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.

🚨 What's being proposed in Tooele County? A proposed permit would allow 252,000 gallons/day of concentrated brine to be discharged into wetlands near Great Salt Lake as part of a development that includes a proposed 500-MW data center.

A public hearing is scheduled for July 27, and written comments will be accepted through the close of business that day. Learn more and read UPHE's guidance: 🔗 www.uphe.org/2026/06/16/h... #GreatSaltLake #DataCenters #UtahWater

“Without a ban, there’s nothing stopping another company from swooping in and filling the void,” said Nathan Donley, a senior scientist and #pesticide expert at the Center for Biological Diversity.