ICYMI: Deadly Lawns, Monkey Shortage & Bison Run Free

More Americans are killed each year by riding lawn mowers than by sharks, bears, alligators, snakes, venomous spiders, bees, wasps, and hornets combined. 

The number of Americans killed by COVID-19 nears 190,000. 

The development of a vaccine for COVID-19 is hampered by a shortage of monkeys. 

Using an executive order signed by President Trump, the Interior Department has used the COVID-19 pandemic to bypass environmental reviews for dozens of major fossil fuel projects.

The EPA weakens regulations on coal-fired power plants, allowing them to dump more toxic metals like arsenic and mercury in waterways. 

Trump’s threat to stop federal dollars from going to the cities he deems to be “anarchist jurisdictions” could halt funding for several Superfund projects. 

German chancellor Angela Merkel is under pressure to cancel the giant Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia following Russia’s apparent poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. 

In Nebraska, more than 100 bison stampede out of the feedlot where they were being fattened for slaughter and run free.  

The QAnon conspiracy movement takes up climate change denial. 

The world’s largest chemical and oil companies pressure Kenya to accept more plastic waste from the United States. 

The Alabama Public Service Commission allows Alabama Power to increase the monthly fee it charges customers who have solar panels on their roofs.  

Aurelia Skipwith, head of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, says that her agency is “working very hard” to remove protections from gray wolves across the United States by the end of the year.  

The head of Trump’s Federal Emergency Management Agency won’t say whether he believes human activity is responsible for climate change.  

By churning up the Gulf of Mexico, July’s Hurricane Hannah greatly shrank the size of the gulf’s low-oxygen “dead zone,” caused by algae blooms from nutrients washed down by the Mississippi River.  

Days after Louisiana’s Calcasieu Parish declined to remove a Confederate memorial in front of the courthouse, Hurricane Laura topples the statue.