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OTNP November 2025 Good morning lovely people. I hope you are all feeling well today! Billy Joel-We didn’t start the fire It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it, … Continue reading →

OTNP October 2025 Good morning lovely people. I hope you are all feeling well today! Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity (one of the better nonprofits out there) just sent me an email A mountain lion in Southern California was … Continue reading →

Exposure to chemicals is listed as a potential driver of chronic disease in children in a new MAHA report, but critics say RJK Jr. has backpedaled on pledges to reduce pesticides used in agriculture. Source: MAHA strategy flip flops on … Continue reading →

Good morning lovely people. Because we have a variety of new members, even from the Midwest, I would like to briefly go over why I started this newsletter #_WIST. As someone who spent an ungodly number of years studying biology … Continue reading →

😃 Good morning lovely people. It has been a month and a half since I sent in my new FOIA request for pesticide information from three of our national parks. I asked for six things: 1) Read-only access to all … Continue reading →

The US House of Representative 118th Congress. Members who voted to keep section 453 and 507 in the House Appropriations bill. Seniority is calculated based on their original start date in the House as of July 2025. Members Voting Yea … Continue reading →

data from 37 experiments conducted around the world. Together, these tested the impacts of 31 different pesticides on the social behaviour of 11 different fish species. The evidence suggests pesticides make fish less social, and this finding is consistent across … Continue reading →

😃 Good morning lovely people. I just sent in my new FOIA request for pesticide information from three of our national parks. I asked for six things: 1) Read-only access to all the _public_ information contained in the PUPS databases … Continue reading →

I have been promising people for years that I would do this post. The nonprofits I have found over the years who seem _to me_ to be honestly working towards a better world as opposed to some of our mega … Continue reading →

Sierra Club Insider sent me (Action is the antidote to despair…. ) Yes it is. The irony though is amazing 😃 Think about action! You can choose to take 2-3 min to do something that will make a huge difference. … Continue reading →