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Supreme Court Allows Flint Water Lawsuits To Move Forward, Officials Not ‘Immune’
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for water crisis victims to sue state and local government officials in Flint, Mich.
Climate crisis fueled locust swarms pose ‘unprecedented threat to food security and livelihoods’
A massive invasion of desert locusts—partly fueled by the climate crisis—seriously threatens food security in already-vulnerable communities across East Africa and has increasingly alarmed United Nations experts in recent weeks.
Trump Admin Manipulated Wildfire Science to Encourage Logging
Respecting scientists has never been a priority for the Trump Administration. Now, a new investigation from The Guardian revealed that Department of the Interior political appointees sought to play up carbon emissions from California’s wildfires while hiding emissions from fossil fuels as a way to encourage more logging in the national forests controlled by the Interior department.
Meet the Millennial Farmers We’ll Be Counting on to Endure Climate Change
On Bite podcast’s 100th episode, we celebrate the next generation of American growers.
E.P.A. Is Letting Cities Dump More Raw Sewage Into Rivers for Years to Come
The Environmental Protection Agency has made it easier for cities to keep dumping raw sewage into rivers by letting them delay or otherwise change federally imposed fixes to their sewer systems, according to interviews with local officials, water utilities and their lobbyists.
Trump’s USDA Chief Thinks Farm Workers Are Overpaid
Yet again, Sonny Perdue wants to gut a program that benefits poor people.
Big Oil wants to dump more wastewater into rivers. What could go wrong?
For more than six months, twin brothers Ronald and Donald Schweitzer have watched large amounts of salty wastewater bubble up from the ground in their wheat field. The “saltwater purge” has killed three trees and several acres of crops on their northwest Oklahoma farm.
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