Jess Phillips becomes second minister to resign from Starmer government pred 8 urami in 8 minutami Safeguarding minister joins Miatta Fahnbulleh in publicly calling for PM to quit after heavy election lossesUK politics live – latest updatesOne of Keir Starmer’s most influential ministers, Jess Phillips, has resigned from the government, calling for Keir Starmer to quit and saying she has grown tired of seeing “opportunities for progress stalled and delayed”.Starmer told his cabinet earlier on Tuesday he would fight on as prime minister, saying the threshold for a leadership challenge had not been met. Phillips is known to be a close ally of the health secretary, Wes Streeting. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Trump’s rollback of toxic gas rules limits EPA’s authority to protect public health, analysis says pred 8 urami in 11 minutami Ethylene oxide (EtO) is about 60 times more carcinogenic than believed in 2006, research findsA new Trump administration plan to rescind 2024 regulations for toxic ethylene oxide (EtO) pollution more broadly aims to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to strengthen public health protections around hazardous emissions and could result in more of the toxin being released into the air.Recent research has found EtO is about 60 times more carcinogenic than thought when the last regulations were developed in 2006. In 2024, the Biden EPA passed a rule that strengthened the regulations to reflect the updated science, and required the nation’s EtO emitters to collectively cut their emissions by about 90%. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests pred 8 urami in 11 minutami Carbon credits bought by companies to offset their emissions really have reduced deforestation, but not by as much as credit developers claim, according to a rigorous analysis(New Scientist)
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