Executive Brief • June 26, 2025
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“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894)
Physician, poet, and polymath
What Conflict in the Middle East Means for Climate Change
The consequences of the increasingly urgent hostilities between Israel and Iran are multifold—humanitarian, geopolitical, and so on. If the situation deepens, it could also have important implications for energy markets and, by extension, climate change and the energy transition.
TIME

Heat Waves Are Getting More Dangerous with Climate Change — and We May Still Be Underestimating Them
The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, bears the hallmarks of human-caused global warming.
CNN

Safety Inspection Update Points OSHA at Warehouses, Health Care
OSHA’s revised inspection program will increase the likelihood of on-site inspections for employers in warehousing, transportation, and health-care facilities, attorneys say.
Bloomberg Law

EPA Will Revisit Biden-Era Ban on the Last Type of Asbestos Used in US
The Environmental Protection Agency told a federal appeals court it will reconsider the Biden administration’s ban on the last type of asbestos used in the United States to determine whether it went “beyond what is necessary.”
Associated Press

Why Companies with More Female Board Members Have Better Workplace Safety
A new study says companies with more women on their boards—and men who listen to what they say—are better at keeping their employees safe from workplace accidents.
Inc.
 
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