The Most Expensive Farm Bill Ever Is Stalled, Holding Back Important Funds Aimed at Combating the Climate Crisis Lawmakers approved spending bills for agriculture this week, but bickered over environmental regulations and the lack of progress on the bill. By Georgina Gustin
Will the Nation’s First Heat Protection Standard Safeguard the Most Vulnerable Workers? By Liza Gross
Financing of Meat and Dairy Giants Grows Thanks to Big American Banks and Investors By Georgina Gustin
Billions of Gallons of Freshwater Are Dumped at Florida’s Coasts. Environmentalists Want That Water in the Everglades By Amy Green
Biofuel Refineries Are Releasing Toxic Air Pollutants in Farm Communities Across the US By Georgina Gustin
Texas Droughts Are Getting Much More Expensive By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune
After Five Years Without Drinkable Water, a Nebraska Town Asks: When Will Our Tap Water Be Safe? By Destiny Herbers, Flatwater Free Press
The Department of Agriculture Rubber-Stamped Tyson’s “Climate Friendly” Beef, but No One Has Seen the Data Behind the Company’s Claim By Georgina Gustin
Zambians Feel the Personal Consequences of Climate Change—and Dream of a Sustainable Future By Georgina Gustin
California Leads the Nation in Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant, Study Finds By Phil McKenna, Liza Gross
As Legal Challenges Against the Fossil Fuel Industry Notch Some Successes, Are Livestock Companies the Next Target? By Georgina Gustin
PFAS Is an Almost Impossible Problem to Tackle—and It’s Probably in Your Food Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth
Midwest Maple Syrup Producers Adapt to Record Warm Winter, Uncertainty as Climate Changes By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch and Brittney J. Miller, The Gazette/Wisconsin Watch
California’s Latino Communities Most at Risk From Exposure to Brain-Damaging Weed Killer By Liza Gross