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![The United States Department of Agriculture]()
![The United States Department of Agriculture]()
The USDA announced the cancellation of $148M in ‘woke’ grants. Then it went dark.
Farms, ranches, and food organizations brace for cuts, but the federal agency won’t say who’s next.
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![digital collage of three people on a beach walking away from the camera with a setting sun and seaweed border]()
![digital collage of three people on a beach walking away from the camera with a setting sun and seaweed border]()
Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart.
A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.
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![pellets of compacted plastic trash on a black background]()
![pellets of compacted plastic trash on a black background]()
This fuel is 50% plastic — and it’s slipping through a loophole in international waste law
Environmental groups are concerned that rich countries are exporting plastic to poor countries in the form of “refuse-derived fuel."
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![A volunteer displays a sign for free food for people in need of relief on July 06, 2025 in Center Point, Texas.]()
![A volunteer displays a sign for free food for people in need of relief on July 06, 2025 in Center Point, Texas.]()
Texas food banks are rationing meals for flood survivors because of Trump’s cuts
The July 4th flooding has become the first major disaster to expose the grave effects of Trump’s new food and hunger policies.
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![a woman in her 70s filters water at a kitchen sink]()
![a woman in her 70s filters water at a kitchen sink]()
Chicago was supposed to warn residents about toxic lead pipes last year. Most still have no idea.
Eight months past a federal deadline, more than 90 percent of at-risk Chicagoans haven’t been told their drinking water could be unsafe.
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![a large cylindrical piece of equipment with pipes behind a chain link fence]()
![a large cylindrical piece of equipment with pipes behind a chain link fence]()
Louisiana is the latest state to greenwash gas
A new state law that redefines natural gas as a “green” energy source was adapted from language written by a right-wing think tank.
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![People dig a trench to replace lead pipes in front of a house]()
![People dig a trench to replace lead pipes in front of a house]()
Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic pipes. Replacing them will take decades.
The city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.
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![digital collage of hands throwing trash into a trash can with dollar signs]()
![digital collage of hands throwing trash into a trash can with dollar signs]()
What one town learned by charging residents for every bag of trash
The small town of Plympton, Massachusetts, eliminated 305 tons of garbage a year by making everyone pay for what they toss.
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![Black smoke billows across the sky as a chemical storage site burns in a fire.]()
![Black smoke billows across the sky as a chemical storage site burns in a fire.]()
Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions
Hazardous chemical accidents happen in the U.S. about every other day. Who will investigate them now?
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![Birds fly past a pile of wood used to make pellets at a Drax facility in Gloster, Mississippi.]()
![Birds fly past a pile of wood used to make pellets at a Drax facility in Gloster, Mississippi.]()
In California, a biomass company’s expansion raises fears of more fires
Facilities that make wood pellets have a track record of catching on fire. So why are there plans to build several near Yosemite's tinderbox forests?
