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Senate Republicans vote down Farm Bill amendment on pesticide liability
Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey. (Credit: Senate.gov)
Republicans on Thursday voted down a proposed amendment to the Farm Bill that would have protected consumer rights to sue pesticide manufacturers over alleged harm after th...
EPA backs off nitrate cancer review as drinking water concerns grow
The EPA has backed away from a long-planned review of whether nitrates in drinking water pose greater cancer risks, even as research linking nitrate pollution to health concerns continues to grow.
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Michigan regulators approve dairy CAFO in pollution hotspot
Featured image: Gratiot County residents gathered on Feb. 3 at Alma College to listen in to a public hearing on KB Dairy. (Credit: Brian Bienkowski/The New Lede)
Michigan is giving a green light to a large new concentrated dairy farm that...
The EPA says "PFAS Out." Its actions say otherwise.
Despite promises made to limit PFAS, the Trump administration’s regulatory rollbacks and approval of new types of PFAS signal what observers see as a sharp contradiction: commitments to reduce exposure to the so-called “forever chemicals,”...
EPA stalls long-planned nitrate cancer review as pollution crisis grows
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin. (Credit: Gage Skidmore/flickr)
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting...
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Brooklyn-based science journalist. Editorial intern at The New Lede. Master’s student in NYU's Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP). Previously at CBC News. Words in Slate, Offrange, Prism, The Brooklyn Paper, and elsewhere.
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