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Lori Ann Burd

@loriannburd.bsky.social
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Environmental Health Director, Center for Biological Diversity. Fighting for pollinators, endangered species, sane pesticide regulation, clean air & safe water.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 25/06/2026
“The disturbing reality is that glyphosate is just the tip of the pesticide iceberg. The EPA has approved hundreds of poisons the agency itself has linked to cancer, and our parents, kids and loved ones are paying for it with their health, sometimes their lives," Donley said.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 25/06/2026
“This Trump-blessed ruling preventing Americans’ from seeking justice for serious health problems linked to an EPA-approved pesticide means that now, more than ever, we need an EPA that protects people instead of foreign pesticide companies,” said the Center's Nathan Donley.
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E&E News: Supreme Court hands Bayer a win that rattles MAHA
The ruling is also a victory for the Trump administration and a defeat for the Make America Healthy Again movement.
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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
@biologicaldiversity.org is suing to wipe Trump's face off the America the Beautiful National Parks pass. By law, the pass must display the winning photo of a federal #PublicLands picture contest. Instead, Trump plastered his own face on it. Trump's vanity pass is not American, beautiful, or legal
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 04/11/2025
The EPA has proposed approving the dangerously persistent pesticide epyrifenacil on canola, corn, soybean and wheat. Epyrifenacil is yet another forever chemical, and this marks the fifth proposed approval of a PFAS pesticide since Trump took office. Read on ➡️ bit.ly/49z9TyX
A drone hovers over a field with a cloud of pesticides spraying from it. Behind it are trees and mountains.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 06/11/2025
The EPA just approved the pesticide cyclobutrifluram for golf courses, lawns, cotton, soybeans, and lettuce. It's another #ForeverChemical — one of a group called #PFAS. Despite the vast agency furloughs, the pesticide office remains open for business. Read on ➡️ bit.ly/47qlFKO
Picture of a gold course: groomed, green grass with a sand pit and a stand of trees in the background. Wispy clouds in the sky above.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 10/09/2025
“If the EPA wants to convince us that our pesticide regulatory process is robust, they should make it robust,” said @loriannburd.bsky.social, the Center's environmental health director in @pbsnews.org ⬇️
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3 things to know about RFK Jr.'s MAHA report on children’s health
Since the Senate confirmed him in February, Kennedy has promoted the concept and use of what he calls “gold-standard science” to expose the causes of child health outcomes, a phrase he repeated today ...
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 15/08/2025
Big surprise (to no one): A much-anticipated draft action plan from the Make America Healthy Again Commission eliminated any plans for action on pesticides. You cannot "Make America Healthy Again" while allowing a billion pounds of pesticides to be dosed on crops. More info: biodiv.us/3V9pInz
A close-up of a Karner Blue butterfly perched on a grass blade against a blurred green background. Image by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 22/05/2025
“There’s an epic battle brewing over the direction that the administration is going to take on toxic chemicals,” said @loriannburd.bsky.social, our Environmental Health Program Director, “But we’re also up against some of the most powerful corporate lobby groups in the country.”
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Kennedy’s Allies Against Pesticides: Environmentalists, Moms and Manly Men
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Honeybees—which are domesticated livestock in no danger of extinction—usurp and replace native pollinators, including threatened species like bumblebees and butterflies, by outcompeting them for finite resources and introducing pathogens into the native population. www.wweek.com/news/2025/05...
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Should Portland Ban Backyard Beekeeping?
Adding hundreds of thousands of honeybees into a previously balanced residential environment disrupts it substantially.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 01/05/2025
“The EPA’s pesticide general permit creates a virtual free-for-all where most pesticide users aren’t even required to identify the pesticide being used or where it’s being sprayed directly into lakes and streams,” said Allison LaPlante, a senior environmental health attorney at the Center.
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Taylor McKinnon @publiccarbon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“...This speed bump gives senators a chance to ponder whether they really want to feed America’s public lands and monuments into the snapping jaws of the fracking and mining industries,” said Taylor McKinnon of the Center for Biological Diversity. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/c...
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Kathleen Sgamma Ends Bid to Lead the B.L.M.
Kathleen Sgamma abruptly withdrew from consideration days after a memo surfaced in which she sharply criticized President Trump.
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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
NEW: EPA is planning to eliminate requirements to report greenhouse gas emissions for thousands of facilities. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill” @maibached.bsky.social told me www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.
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Jason Rylander @jasonrylander.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"Trump's coal orders take his worship of dirty fossil fuels to a gross and disturbingly reckless new level," said Jason Rylander ... "Forcing old coal plants to keep spewing pollution into our air and water means more cancer, more asthma and more premature deaths." www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...
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Trump signs executive orders aimed at revitalizing coal industry
The executive orders are meant to reenergize the coal industry, which has been steadily declining for years.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 08/04/2025
“We’re determined to do what it takes to make sure the city stops discharging toxic contaminants into the Sound so that people, salmon and orcas can thrive,” said @loriannburd.bsky.social, our environmental health director.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 08/04/2025
The Center + allies filed a notice today of their intent to sue the city of Tacoma, Washington, for discharging toxic wastewater at levels that harm Puget Sound Chinook salmon, protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. More info: biodiv.us/3G0ULhi
Underwater view of four Chinook salmon swimming, with the logo of the Center for Biological Diversity in the corner.
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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 08/04/2025
Just me banging on again that BROADWAY employs more people than coal.
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Coal's not clean or beautiful, it is horribly polluting, and this is nuttier than peanut butter. “We are committed to supporting all forms of energy, including clean beautiful coal...while ensuring we have the cleanest air, land & water on the planet,” EPA's Zeldin. www.yahoo.com/news/us-fede...
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US federal agencies to 'unleash' coal energy after Biden 'stifled' it: 'Mine, Baby, Mine'
The Departments of Energy and Interior are expected to take a slate of actions to strengthen the use of coal after Trump's executive order reinvigorating the coal industry.
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We just launched a major new lawsuit to protect threatened chinook salmon from dangerous chemicals being released in City of Tacoma wastewater. Pollutants like pesticides are causing serious harm to endangered species in Puget sound. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Lawsuit Launched to Stop Tacoma Wastewater Discharges From Harming Protected Puget Sound Salmon
groups filed a notice today of their intent to sue the city of Tacoma, Washington, for discharging toxic wastewater at levels that harm Puget Sound Chinook salmon, protected as threatened under the En...
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We just launched a major new lawsuit to protect threatened chinook salmon from dangerous chemicals being released in City of Tacoma wastewater. Pollutants like pesticides are causing serious harm to endangered species in Puget sound. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Lawsuit Launched to Stop Tacoma Wastewater Discharges From Harming Protected Puget Sound Salmon
groups filed a notice today of their intent to sue the city of Tacoma, Washington, for discharging toxic wastewater at levels that harm Puget Sound Chinook salmon, protected as threatened under the En...
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The "we won't let big government police our words" administration has banned the use of words like "clean water," "safe drinking water," and "water pollution" at USDA. Trump promised the U.S. will have the cleanest water in the world, how does this get us there? #MAHA newrepublic.com/post/193395/...
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Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say
The Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase “safe drinking water.”
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The "we won't let big government police our words" administration has banned the use of words like "clean water," "safe drinking water," and "water pollution" at USDA. Trump promised the U.S. will have the cleanest water in the world, how does this get us there? #MAHA newrepublic.com/post/193395/...
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Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say
The Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase “safe drinking water.”
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Biden required coal plants to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals like mercury bc they can harm babies’ brains & cause heart disease. Now Trump's offering polluters an out: email him & he may greenlight bypassing these & other major clean-air rules. How is this #MAHA? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
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E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email
Referring to a little-known provision, it said power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other restrictions and that “the president will make a decision.”
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Biden required coal plants to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals like mercury bc they can harm babies’ brains & cause heart disease. Now Trump's offering polluters an out: email him & he may greenlight bypassing these & other major clean-air rules. How is this #MAHA? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
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E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email
Referring to a little-known provision, it said power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other restrictions and that “the president will make a decision.”
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Wendy Leung @wendyleung.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Much of coastal Costa Rica is owned by foreign land owners but the @biologicaldiversity.org has just donated 40+ acres to a group of Indigenous women for conservation and sustainable cocoa production. www.biologicaldiversity.org/resourcespac...
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Thank you!!!
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We’re thrilled to have won this case, but the real victory won’t come until the Trump administration acts on its promise to rein in use of dangerous pesticides like atrazine that are causing grave harms to people and wildlife alike. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Court Orders Trump Fish and Wildlife Service to Protect Endangered Species From Atrazine, Chlorpyrifos, Three Other Toxic Pesticides
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to assess what steps are needed to reduce widespread harms some of the nation’s most toxic pesticides are causing to hundreds of endangered plants ...
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Nobody voted for dirtier air and water, more asthma and cancer, or for more species to go extinct, but that’s what is coming unless we stop these catastrophic rollbacks of common sense pollution controls.
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Here’s our press release on this exciting win, biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Court Orders Trump Fish and Wildlife Service to Protect Endangered Species From Atrazine, Chlorpyrifos, Three Other Toxic Pesticides
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to assess what steps are needed to reduce widespread harms some of the nation’s most toxic pesticides are causing to hundreds of endangered plants ...
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Breaking now: We just won our case challenging U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's failure to protect endangered species from dangerous pesticides, including atrazine & chlorpyrifos. Here's the press release from the filing, press release on this win coming soon. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Lawsuit Targets Federal Fish and Wildlife Service’s Failure to Protect Endangered Species From Toxic Pesticides
The Center for Biological Diversity filed new legal challenges today to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop allowing some of the most dangerous pesticides from threatening up to 97% of en...
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The Trump 1.0 playbook was all about enriching corporate polluters at the expense of public health, now Trump 2.0 is going right back to it, sadly, after selling its promise of the cleanest air and water in the world. Only took 7 weeks for them to launch this poisoning American's air and water plan.
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The new administration's disgraceful decision to increase some the most harmful air and water pollution out there is especially dangerous for children and pregnant women and will trigger increases in health conditions, including memory loss, learning disorders and heart disease.
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Only in the world of Trump’s magical, corporate thinking can you pretend to be "Making America Healthy Again" while slashing protections against dangerously toxic industrial pollutants like mercury, lead and formaldehyde. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
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EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I grow maypops on my driveway strip in Portland, OR. Just planted them last spring. They produced gorgeous flowers (which I expected eventually but not right away) and then scrumptious fruit (which I dreamed might happen but didn't actually expect). Got them from One Green World. Highly recommend.
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Thanks to a legal settlement with us & others, Point Reyes National Seashore will no longer overwhelmingly prioritize private cattle operations over wildlife & public uses. But some have been unfairly denouncing the settlement. This piece breaks down the facts www.thewildlifenews.com/2025/03/08/p...
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Point Reyes Myths – The Settlement
After years of public outcry and several lawsuits from grassroots environmental groups, Point Reyes National Seashore is finally shedding (most of) its commercial ranching operations. Although long…
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 06/03/2025
The deadline to submit your public comment at the link above is March 12th!
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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Good news: the overwintering eastern monarch population doubled since last year. Bad news: The migratory population is still only 1/3 of the size needed to be above risk of extinction.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Make...(*checks notes*)...poop water great again
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 18/02/2025
Over 25% of pesticides use today in the U.S. is of chemicals banned in the EU, Brazil + China. The petition also seeks to ensure that imported foods are not contaminated with U.S.-banned pesticides that make it to U.S. markets due to lax and inadequate federal inspection and penalty regimes.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 18/02/2025
“We’re calling on President Trump and Secretary Kennedy to Make America Healthy Again by taking extraordinarily toxic pesticides out of our food,” said @loriannburd.bsky.social, environmental health director at the Center.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 18/02/2025
We sent a petition today urging President Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency to eliminate the use of extraordinarily toxic pesticides on U.S. food. More info: biodiv.us/4hI988f
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Brett Hartl @bretthartl.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Kinda seems like a conflict of interest??? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
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State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
The department plans to buy armored Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to cut government spending, has won more than $13 billion in government contracts in the past five years.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People
The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Our new analysis shows Biden's plan for atrazine greenlights harmful levels of pollution in 99% of the nation’s 11,249 contaminated watersheds, so we just sent the Trump admin comments urging it to ban atrazine for good. Will they #MAHA or was that just talk? biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Trump Urged to Ban Cancer-Linked Atrazine, Kill Biden-Era Plan
The Center for Biological Diversity sent a comprehensive analysis to the Trump administration today detailing how a Biden-era plan would greenlight extremely harmful levels of atrazine pollution in 99...
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Our new analysis shows Biden's plan for atrazine greenlights harmful levels of pollution in 99% of the nation’s 11,249 contaminated watersheds, so we just sent the Trump admin comments urging it to ban atrazine for good. Will they #MAHA or was that just talk? biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Trump Urged to Ban Cancer-Linked Atrazine, Kill Biden-Era Plan
The Center for Biological Diversity sent a comprehensive analysis to the Trump administration today detailing how a Biden-era plan would greenlight extremely harmful levels of atrazine pollution in 99...
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 04/02/2025
“The public deserves to see the science underpinning the Service’s dubious conclusion that drenching millions of acres with deadly insecticides won’t harm a single endangered species,” said @loriannburd.bsky.social, environmental health director at the Center
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 04/02/2025
We sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to release records documenting its finding that insecticides sprayed across millions of acres in 17 states do not harm any of the area’s 201 endangered plants and animals. More info: biodiv.us/4hngAp8
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Deeply moving piece by one of my Center colleagues, who lost her family's synagogue in last weeks fires. How bitterly ironic that the fire, caused by our modern day plague of climate change, uncovered a long lost mural of the ancient Egyptian plagues. lamag.com/science/dest...
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Destroyed Pasadena Synagogue Holds a Message: Make Polluters Pay for Their Plague
'Today’s climate driven disasters are the result of more than a century of extracting and burning fossil fuels,' says Altadena-based climate lawyer Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute
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Lori Ann Burd @loriannburd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Really nice overview of the last four years of agriculture regulation under Biden. It's actually quite nice to see how much got done, albeit none of it perfectly. Now we get to spend the next four years fighting for all the positive progress to not all get undone. civileats.com/2025/01/15/h...
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How Four Years of Biden Reshaped Food and Farming
A look back on the Biden administration’s most significant actions impacting food and farming during the president’s tenure.
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John Sanbonmatsu @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
There is a virtual media blackout on the greatest danger of H5N1, which is not a human pandemic (bad as that would be) but its ongoing catastrophic impact on nonhuman animals throughout the world. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The threat of avian influenza H5N1 looms over global biodiversity - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
The highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is an emerging and unexpected threat to many wild animal species, which has implications for ecological processes, ecosystem services and conservation of thr...
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