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

Heat Safety Experts behind OSHA Rules Were Laid Off, which Could Make It Easier to Scrap Regulations

3 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Ariel Wittenberg

CLIMATEWIRE | When federal regulators were crafting a first-ever proposal to protect workers from extreme heat, they relied on government health experts who had been working on the deadly effects of high temperatures for years. Now that entire team is gone due to President Donald Trump's personnel purges.
Lawmakers Form First Extreme Heat Caucus, Citing ‘Deadly Risk’

4 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Ariel Wittenberg

CLIMATEWIRE | An Arizona Democrat and a New York Republican are teaming up to form the Congressional Extreme Heat Caucus in an attempt to find bipartisan solutions for deadly temperatures. “We hope this caucus can make sure the United States is better prepared for the inevitable increase in temperatures, not just in Arizona and the Southwest but all across the country,” Arizona Rep. Greg Stanton (D) said in an interview. He's creating the caucus with New York Rep.
Heat Is Killing Oil Workers. The Industry Is Trying to Kill a Rule That Would Protect Them

4 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Ariel Wittenberg

CLIMATEWIRE | The oil and gas industry is pushing the Trump administration to kill a proposed rule that would protect workers from extreme heat, arguing that it jeopardizes the president’s vision of achieving “energy dominance.”The opposition comes as people who work in U.S. oil and gas fields face increasingly dangerous conditions as global temperatures swell with rising levels of climate pollution. The industry is among the nation’s leading workplaces for heat-related deaths and injuries.
E&E News: Lawmakers form Heat Caucus: ‘We’ve had too many deaths’

1 month ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Ariel Wittenberg
E&E News: MAHA report targets chemical industry revolving door — without mentioning EPA

1 month ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Ariel Wittenberg |Ellie Borst
E&E News: MAHA targets environmental chemicals

1 month ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Ellie Borst |Ariel Wittenberg
Hospitals Use This Program to Evacuate in Disasters. Trump Wants to Cut It

1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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.