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El Reno, OK sits "... in the center of the state but is otherwise divided by a lot of things. These include water rights, a tangled web of Chinese companies, and an illegal crypto mining operation." NEW column by @ssteingraber1.bsky.social: www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/10... photo: OK Historical Society

Our friends at the feminist translation collective, Territorio de Ideas, have summarized our #fracking science Compendium update on public health effects in Spanish! It's featured in our newsletter this month: www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/10...

💥 Our Oct. newsletter has an update on the long road that is #MethyleneChloride regulation, by SEHN's Dr. Ted Schettler. "A snail’s pace while workers, fenceline communities, and consumers continue to be exposed and many experience adverse health effects every day." www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/10...

TONIGHT: Water bills have skyrocketed over the last decade and the culprit is corporate greed. Join us at 7PM ET to learn about who the United States’ water affordability crisis is impacting most: https://fwwat.ch/4daI4OC

The pollution is coming from inside the house. @rpelai.bsky.social

As people in these nations endure horrific lives, and the world edges closer to truly unspeakable catastrophe, the fact that it’s all connected to oil suggests a way out: which is to make oil less important, writes @billmckibben.bsky.social.

EPA enforcement records that have been difficult to obtain are now searchable in one place. A new portal from PEER, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, and ToxicDocs.org brings together EPA inspection reports, notices of violation, and related documents. www.eyesonenforcement.org

The hidden costs of fracking: boom in Argentina linked to trail of sickness

Our "scrappy legal team" won the first large-scale border wall injunction in decades. We couldn't be more proud.

Our new report with @oilchange.org shows that the Trump admin stands in stark contrast to the other G20 countries, which have collectively reduced their international fossil fuel finance The US is wasting taxpayer dollars on risky fossil fuel projects all over the world foe.org/news/us-wors...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Fast-moving, virtually irrepressible wildfire events “are not the seasonal burns of decades past; they are the hazard lights of a heating climate, and they are flashing furiously,” John Vaillant writes.

Glad to publish this @mongabay.com op-ed celebrating Indigenous women's leadership on #Indigenouspeoplesday & every day, for clean water and more "In working alongside #Indigenous leaders I have seen how community knowledge, technical expertise, and relationship-building complement one another."

A worthless plan: “We found that there were only about 120 watersheds out of over 11,000 that would actually see a reduction in atrazine below … the level EPA has identified would harm aquatic ecosystems,” Nathan Donley of @biologicaldiversity.org said. www.thenewlede.org/2026/10/epa-...

Aaron Regunberg, @publiccitizen.bsky.social: "The Massachusetts filings, he said, suggest 'that we have seen just a sliver of the evidence that they actually have that they’ve spent decades knowingly deceiving the public about this crisis. How many more reports are they sitting on?'”

📣 NEW REPORT 📣 If it feels like the United States’ affordability crisis is at a fever pitch, that’s because it is. Dive into the data and learn about the corporate forces driving our country’s surging water bills in our research team’s new analysis: fwwat.ch/4jHJh3S

Health threats from fossil fuels and labor rights collide in restaurant kitchens. Another reason to #ElectrifyEverything! From @alisontakemura.bsky.social:

Protesters had protected the tree for more than 70 days. It was cut down Monday to make way for a double border wall

TODAY: U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Suncor v. Boulder. 🛢️ Big Oil is asking the Court to dismiss this landmark climate case. ✊ But communities facing fossil-fuel-driven climate harm deserve their day in court. We are at the Court and monitoring the hearing. Follow us for updates. #SCOTUS

Happening now: argument in Suncor v Boulder before #SCOTUS This is a big climate change liability moment: earthjustice.org/brief/2026/w...

Boulder’s lawsuit says the two oil companies, Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy, should help pay for the damage to the state of Colorado — such as worsening heat waves and wildfires — caused by climate change, which is driven by the burning of fossil fuels.

BIG WIN FOR BIG BEND!! A federal judge just issued an emergency injunction to block border barrier and road construction across the #BigBend region. The injunction will remain in place while the court considers a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s waiver to fast-track construction.

"All #BorderWall and road construction across the entire Big Bend region is halted! What a massive, historic victory for everyone across #BigBend — the toughest, most beautiful souls I know. I’m a puddle of tears. More to come soon." - @laikenjordahl.bsky.social, National #PublicLands Advocate

NEW: The update of the public health effects section of our 9th ed. fracking science Compendium summarized (not a direct translation) in Spanish by our friends at Territorio de Ideas. 🙏 concernedhealthny.org/wp-content/u... @psr-la.bsky.social @psr.org @sfbaypsr.bsky.social @standla.bsky.social

"'People don’t breathe one permit at a time,' said Michael Cork, a Harvard-trained environmental health scientist who founded EmPower, and Lackawanna County [PA] amounts to 'a major proposed infrastructure build-out, concentrated in one county.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/c...

"'Our best estimate is that the [62 gas-fired] generators emitted about 140 tons of NOx,' said Xiaomeng Jin, an assistant professor at Rutgers... Her analysis would rank DataOne in the state’s top five NOx polluters of 2025, per EPA data." #DataCenters are an unfolding #PublicHealth crisis.

A powerful El Niño is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. During the last strong El Niño, federal agencies ramped up research in the hope of improving weather forecasts. This year, they won't be matching that effort. trib.al/dkJLZ2X

Bay Area chefs are going all-electric. ⚡ @kqednews.kqed.org's latest story looks at why: faster boiling, precise temp control, cooler & safer kitchens, and better air quality. BDC Chefluencer Katie Chin shares how induction has improved her cooking all-around. bit.ly/4iWeVuk #EnergySky

🌎 Climate VICTORY! @nypirg.bsky.social applauds @governor.ny.gov's approval of legislation to create a statewide electric lawn equipment rebate program, which will reduce air, climate, and noise pollution and support NY small businesses. 📰 News release: nypirg.org/pubs/202609/...

Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

‘Canada, come get your people’: Namibian communities reported abuses to the human rights watchdog Canada built. Two years later, the complaint is still unanswered and the office is gone. by Rob Parker

☢️The fracking company CNX is expanding a voluntary radiation monitoring program. We are skeptical that "Radical Transparency" can be achieved through voluntary industry initiatives, and think we need much more scrutiny of radioactive dangers fractracker.org/2026/09/cnxs...

"The Trump administration on Monday finalized its plan to significantly weaken fuel efficiency standards for automobiles, scaling back Biden-era rules meant to reduce gasoline consumption and speed the shift to electric vehicles." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/c...

Researchers w/ Wildlife & Climate Consensus have a new study out, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... In July I solicited this op-ed for @mongabay.com by them about bringing #wildlife into #climate conversations Good to see it's now 350+ signatories strong, here's why it's captured attention:

New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused

#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...

This CDCer is absolutely exhausted. Working in public health during this hostile time for science takes more out of me than I can say. BUT the people who keep showing up, supporting us, and the science remind me that this fight is worth it. We’ll keep going for those who can’t. ✊ Goodnight 💚✨

A USDA plan would push national forests toward more off-road and motorized traffic while removing the standards that protect wildlife, water, and other forest users. PEER and Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics submitted comments opposing the plan. https://ow.ly/7L1O50ZQBar

EPA admitted that two of the most widely-used forms of “forever chemicals” are still being manufactured and imported in the U.S. This admission comes In response to a PEER complaint. https://ow.ly/YvgM50ZQZ9g #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

“Y’all are going to need a bigger hospital.” Already burdened by petrochemical plants, Louisiana is facing a wave of gas-powered AI data centers—and their pollution. Dorothy Slater, an oncology nurse, writes for @dissentmag.bsky.social about nursing her patients at the frontier of AI buildout.

Oil spills from war are spreading towards coral reefs and mangroves in the Strait of Hormuz. Fossil fuel dependence puts people, nature and economies in harm’s way. It's time to end that dependence and build a future powered by clean, decentralised renewables.

New from Justin Nobel, in collaboration with @truthdig.com: We previously reported on homes and a school built atop a former drilling waste site. Homeowners still want to know, did they have a right to be informed of the land's filthy past?

NEW RESOURCE 📝 A detailed guide to protecting your community's #water —quality and quantity—from developments such as #DataCenters and #CarbonCapture. Help accomplish transparency and the rule of law for the use and protection of precious water. www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/9/...

Kavita Sthanumurthy, a member of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, says the AI boom is largely being powered by dirty fossil fuels, even as companies like Amazon claim they use 100% renewable energy. “We did our own independent research and found that it was closer to 22%,” says Sthanumurthy.

Ahead of the midterm elections, activist and writer Bill McKibben has been traveling across the United States with Third Act, the environmental group he founded to harness the power of seniors who care about the climate and democracy.

“Amazon is able to make these ridiculous claims that they are 100% renewable, and in the same breath, create massive data centers,” says Kavita Sthanumurthy, a former software engineer at Amazon and a member of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice.

‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surge

US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show