New EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s pillars pledge to help auto industry and have no mention of the climate crisis
A new and starkly different vision for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been outlined by the Trump administration – one that involves mass staff cuts, an influx of industry lobbyists and, unusually, the promotion of artificial intelligence as a key agency priority.
A set of five “pillars” issued by new EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, to guide the agency, set up under President Richard Nixon in 1970 to protect US public health and the environment, does include one referencing “clean land, air and water for every American”.
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02/06/2025 - 06:00
02/06/2025 - 02:00
More than 1,000 staff at Devon-based group will get about £1,000 each after profits more than doubled
Employees of Riverford will share in a payout of £1.3m after the organic vegetable box company more than doubled profits last year.
More than 1,000 staff at the Devon-based group, which began making deliveries from an old Citroën in 1993, will receive about £1,000 each as the employee-owned company nearly tripled its annual payout to workers.
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02/06/2025 - 01:26
Dylan Cooper and Cory Kerewaro from Reptile Relocation Sydney have removed 102 red-bellied black snakes from a single mulch pile on a property in western Sydney. Upon arrival they had expected to remove only four red-bellies which had been seen by the owner of the Horsley Park home. But during summer it can be common for some female snakes to congregate and share the same birthing site
‘Totally amazing’: 102 red-bellied black snakes found in Sydney garden
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02/06/2025 - 00:00
Chicken used in dog treat was cultivated from single sample of cells taken from one egg, says manufacturer Meatly
A dog treat made from lab-grown meat has gone on sale at Pets at Home in a move the retailer claims is a world first.
Chick Bites are made from plant-based ingredients combined with cultivated meat, which is produced by growing cells and does not require the raising or slaughter of animals.
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02/05/2025 - 22:40
A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the network of no-take marine reserves supplies nearly half of the region's coral trout fishery catch.
02/05/2025 - 22:23
Forecasters warn of more wet weather in some locations, including Townsville, as soldiers assist in recovery efforts
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Help is on the way for a flood-ravaged region after the army flew in to assist recovery efforts and rebuild a key bridge that collapsed in a deadly deluge.
But the flood threat remains with more widespread showers and storms forecast, ensuring more anxious moments for north Queensland residents.
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02/05/2025 - 19:01
Prime minister vows to ‘push past nimbyism’ and calls on tech firms to help build small modular reactors to power AI datacentres
Keir Starmer will unveil plans for a historic expansion in nuclear power across England and Wales, pledging to use Labour’s large majority to make new sites across the country available for new power stations.
The announcement follows the prime minister’s call for tech companies to work alongside the government to build small modular reactors (SMRs) to power energy intensive AI datacentres across Britain.
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02/05/2025 - 19:01
The UK’s food supply has been threatened by recent events, such as the war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic
Urgent action is needed to secure the UK’s food supply in the face of climate change-induced extreme weather, the imposition of tariffs and global insecurity, a report has warned.
Days after the US president, Donald Trump, warned Europe would be next for tariffs on trade after he imposed tax levies on Canada, China and Mexico, the report said the UK’s post-second world war food system was no longer fit for purpose, and the country’s food security was in a precarious state.
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02/05/2025 - 16:49
Multimillion-dollar home perched at edge of Cape Cod Bay in Wellfleet affected by erosion accelerated by climate crisis
The waters of Cape Cod Bay are coming for the big brown house perched on the edge of a sandy bluff high above the beach. It’s just a matter of when.
Erosion has marched right up to the concrete footings of the multimillion-dollar Massachusetts home where it overlooks the bay. Massive sliding doors that used to open onto a wide deck, complete with a hot tub, are now barricaded by thin wooden slats that prevent anyone from stepping through and falling 25ft to the beach below.
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02/05/2025 - 10:00
Work and payments at universities, businesses and non-profits disrupted nationwide after executive orders
Scientists around the US have described experiencing distress, disruption to their work and interruption of payments in the chaos following Donald Trump’s executive orders affecting federal grant money.
Among the funds caught in limbo in recent days were millions of dollars of congressionally appropriated research awards and grants across the vast networks of publicly funded scientific departments at universities, businesses and non-profits across the country.
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