Ariel Wittenberg

Washington, D.C.

Public Health Reporter at E&E News

Public health reporter for @EENewsUpdates. Mom. PEN Guild forever ✊🏼 RTs not endorsements.

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Articles

Hospitals Use This Program to Evacuate in Disasters. Trump Wants to Cut It

6 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Ariel Wittenberg

CLIMATEWIRE | When the McBride wildfire erupted in New Mexico three years ago, David Merritt had a math problem. The fire was closing in on a Lincoln County hospital with 11 admitted patients, but the ambulance drivers who would normally evacuate those patients were busy fighting the blaze. High winds ruled out air evacuations. There were also only two ways out of the town of Ruidoso, and the way leading to the next-nearest hospital was in the evacuation zone.
Elon Musk’s xAI in Memphis: 35 gas turbines, no air pollution permits

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ariel Wittenberg

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is belching smog-forming pollution into an area of South Memphis that already leads the state in emergency department visits for asthma. None of the 35 methane gas turbines that help power xAI’s massive supercomputer is equipped with pollution controls typically required by federal rules. The company has no Clean Air Act permits.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ariel Wittenberg

2 hours agoLawrence O’Donnell Slams Trump For 'Stupidest Thing' Any President 'Has Ever Said'"The Last Word" host excoriated the president Monday in a segment spanning 26 minutes. MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell torched President Donald Trump on Monday for his “stupid” theories on international trade, the precarious tariffs he imposed on U.S. imports and all the contradictory answers he gave …4 hours agoShe Called a 5-Year-Old the N-WordAnd the online right rallied to her side.
Trump Targets Air-Conditioning and Heating Funds for Low-Income Households

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Ariel Wittenberg

CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration proposed eliminating a program that helps low-income families heat and cool their homes, saying “energy dominance” policies make subsidizing electricity costs unnecessary. The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program provides support to some 6 million Americans and has bipartisan support in Congress, particularly among Republicans such as Maine Sen. Susan Collins, whose constituents depend on the funds to heat their homes in the winter.
E&E News: Elon Musk’s xAI in Memphis: 35 gas turbines, no air pollution permits

2 weeks ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Ariel Wittenberg
Child Asthma Will Worsen with Trump’s Pollution Rollbacks and RFK, Jr.’s CDC Cuts

3 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Ariel Wittenberg

CLIMATEWIRE | When EPA announced its intent to roll back more than two dozen regulations last month, Administrator Lee Zeldin said it was necessary because pollution limits were “suffocating” the nation’s economy. But 12 of the 31 rules on the chopping block protect Americans' ability to breathe by curtailing air pollutants like fine particulate matter and ozone. According to one review of EPA’s analyses, those rules would collectively prevent more than 100 million asthma attacks through 2050.
E&E News: MAHA sinks its teeth into EPA

1 month ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Ellie Borst |Ariel Wittenberg
Extreme Heat Programs Hollowed Out by Trump Staff Cuts

1 month ago | scientificamerican.com | Ariel Wittenberg

CLIMATEWIRE | Widespread layoffs this week at the Department of Health and Human Services have effectively dismantled programs aimed at keeping Americans safe from extreme heat and other climate-driven weather. Last year was the warmest on record.
E&E News: Trump admin guts CDC’s climate and environment offices

1 month ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Ariel Wittenberg |Ellie Borst

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Trump Administration Cancels NIH Scientific Integrity Policy

1 month ago | scientificamerican.com | Ariel Wittenberg

CLIMATEWIRE | The National Institutes of Health has rescinded a scientific integrity policy intended to protect research and communications from political interference, citing the policy's commitment to diversity and inclusion. The policy was rescinded Friday evening to “ensure alignment with the administration’s priorities,” according to a notice posted by NIH.