CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country
The country is in the midst of a nationwide outbreak of explosive diarrhea caused by a parasite the CDC stopped surveilling at the federal level in July 2025.
That’s around the same time the Trump administration began haphazardly attacking and defunding federal health and science agencies under the guise of “government efficiency,” with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. separately also pushing out critical federal scientists and researchers.
In addition to the ongoing cyclospora outbreak, Trump administration cutbacks made under the guise of “government efficiency” also brought back a flesh-eating parasite that favors cattle, accidentally fired scientists managing the bird flu outbreak, accidentally fired the FDA’s medical device reviewers, and pulled research funding to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, among other things.
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Trump Administration Taps Climate Science Critic to Oversee Flagship Report - And guess what, surprise, he has no formal training in climate science.
The Trump administration has appointed a critic of mainstream climate science to oversee the federal government’s flagship report on how climate change affects the United States.
Matthew M. Wielicki is a former geochemist at the University of Alabama with no formal training in climate science.
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He Wanted to Track Microplastics in the Sea. The E.P.A. Fired Him.
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US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set Pfas limits in food
Recent FDA testing found 70% of seafood samples contain the chemicals, while independent milk testing found it in 12% of 50 samples, including extremely high levels in Whole Foods and Kirkland Signature brands. The FDA rejected the revised petition, stating it plans to take action on setting standards for Pfas, and there is “insufficient evidence to support [TEJTF’s] request”.
The agency said it plans to set less non-binding “action levels” that do not require contaminated food to be removed from shelves.
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Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining
The Trump administration on Friday moved to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining, real estate development and other activities in what environmentalists characterized as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century.
It did so by recasting a single word, “harm.”
For more than 50 years, the federal government has used a broader definition of harm to animals under the Endangered Species Act, a bedrock environmental law. It included any significant “modification or degradation” of habitat that kills or injures animals by impairing their ability to eat, shelter or breed.
The Supreme Court upheld this interpretation in 1995, ruling against property owners who argued that harm should only mean directly killing or injuring an endangered animal.
But on Friday, the Interior Department and the Commerce Department announced a final rule that rescinded this longstanding interpretation. Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal.
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EPA proposes weakening heavy-duty truck pollution rules
The EPA did not model the resulting effect on air quality or human health, but noted that the modifications would likely reduce the benefits of prior rules changes in 2023.
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Cross on the moon?
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DOGE cuts kill.
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Proposed White House regulations could kill 5,000 clinical trials, analysis finds The Trump administration is mulling new rules that would give political appointees final say on research grants.
Nearly 5,000 clinical trials, including more than 1,000 cancer treatment tests, face termination under proposed federal regulations, a new analysis by the science advocacy group Stand Up for Science finds. The potential cuts would also affect hundreds of pediatric, veteran health and heart disease trials, according to the report.
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