CBS News | Smoke from two uncontrolled Everglades wildfires, including the 20,000-acre Mile Marker 39 blaze, is degrading air quality across Broward County and parts of South Florida, prompting health alerts and visibility warnings though no properties are currently threatened.

Nature | Air pollution remains a major global health threat, and with climate change intensifying its impacts, experts argue that only integrated, context-specific strategies across national, community, and individual levels can effectively reduce risks and improve public health.

Environmental Health News | A fatal explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works has spurred emergency air monitoring and renewed concern over the plant’s long history of pollution, highlighting gaps in protections as federal fenceline monitoring rules remain delayed.

CNN | The Trump administration is cutting instruments and satellites from NOAA’s next-generation GeoXO program, dropping planned air quality and ocean monitoring tools, to lower costs and narrow the agency’s focus to weather forecasting, a move critics warn will weaken U.S. climate data, disaster preparedness, and global leadership in Earth observation.

Farmonaut | Underground gold mines are adopting smart, modular, and energy-efficient ventilation systems—integrating IoT, automation, digital twins, and green power—to improve safety, cut energy costs by up to 40%, and meet rising sustainability and regulatory demands.

The Vallejo Sun | The Bay Area Air Quality Management District ordered Vallejo’s Crown Hill Materials to shut down its larger concrete batch plant for operating without a permit, following years of dust complaints from neighbors and growing concerns over health and environmental impacts.

Colorado Politics | Former Colorado lawmakers argue that the state’s new Regulation 31 unfairly forces small rural landfills to install costly methane capture systems despite their minimal emissions, while exempting state-run facilities, a move they say will drive up local costs, increase illegal dumping, and threaten rural waste infrastructure.

Food Safety Magazine | Airborne bioaerosols and dust play a major role in food facility cross-contamination, and monitoring them provides critical insights for preventing recontamination and improving contamination control strategies.

Cascadia Daily News | A new study finds that Whatcom County ranks fourth in the U.S. for the number of cattle animal feeding operations, with 137 facilities that raise fine particle pollution and disproportionately impact vulnerable populations, sparking ongoing debates over health risks, farm practices, and stricter permitting.

Environmental Health News | The Trump-era EPA canceled a $1 million Louisville air monitoring grant focused on predominantly Black neighborhoods near the Rubbertown industrial corridor, a move critics say undermines vital environmental justice research linking toxic emissions to cancer and asthma disparities.

CBS News | Smoke from two uncontrolled Everglades wildfires, including the 20,000-acre Mile Marker 39 blaze, is degrading air quality across Broward County and parts of South Florida, prompting health alerts and visibility warnings though no properties are currently threatened.

Nature | Air pollution remains a major global health threat, and with climate change intensifying its impacts, experts argue that only integrated, context-specific strategies across national, community, and individual levels can effectively reduce risks and improve public health.

Environmental Health News | A fatal explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works has spurred emergency air monitoring and renewed concern over the plant’s long history of pollution, highlighting gaps in protections as federal fenceline monitoring rules remain delayed.

CNN | The Trump administration is cutting instruments and satellites from NOAA’s next-generation GeoXO program, dropping planned air quality and ocean monitoring tools, to lower costs and narrow the agency’s focus to weather forecasting, a move critics warn will weaken U.S. climate data, disaster preparedness, and global leadership in Earth observation.

Farmonaut | Underground gold mines are adopting smart, modular, and energy-efficient ventilation systems—integrating IoT, automation, digital twins, and green power—to improve safety, cut energy costs by up to 40%, and meet rising sustainability and regulatory demands.

The Vallejo Sun | The Bay Area Air Quality Management District ordered Vallejo’s Crown Hill Materials to shut down its larger concrete batch plant for operating without a permit, following years of dust complaints from neighbors and growing concerns over health and environmental impacts.

Colorado Politics | Former Colorado lawmakers argue that the state’s new Regulation 31 unfairly forces small rural landfills to install costly methane capture systems despite their minimal emissions, while exempting state-run facilities, a move they say will drive up local costs, increase illegal dumping, and threaten rural waste infrastructure.

Food Safety Magazine | Airborne bioaerosols and dust play a major role in food facility cross-contamination, and monitoring them provides critical insights for preventing recontamination and improving contamination control strategies.

Cascadia Daily News | A new study finds that Whatcom County ranks fourth in the U.S. for the number of cattle animal feeding operations, with 137 facilities that raise fine particle pollution and disproportionately impact vulnerable populations, sparking ongoing debates over health risks, farm practices, and stricter permitting.

Environmental Health News | The Trump-era EPA canceled a $1 million Louisville air monitoring grant focused on predominantly Black neighborhoods near the Rubbertown industrial corridor, a move critics say undermines vital environmental justice research linking toxic emissions to cancer and asthma disparities.