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![a fast-food worker tends to chicken pieces roasting on a grill in an El Pollo Loco restaurant]()
![a fast-food worker tends to chicken pieces roasting on a grill in an El Pollo Loco restaurant]()
Workers are facing dangerous heat — even inside fast-food restaurants
Rising temperatures and chronically broken cooling systems are turning the lunch rush into a deadly risk for some workers.
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![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks at podium]()
![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks at podium]()
Inside the program cuts, workforce purges, and secretive reorganization of the USDA
As the Trump administration shrinks the Department of Agriculture, rural farming communities are left to pay the price.
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Factory farms don’t just stink — they make it harder to breathe, too
New maps show that where animal feeding operations exist, higher percentages of Latino and uninsured residents also live.
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![men pack up boxes of food for a food bank]()
![men pack up boxes of food for a food bank]()
Food banks have long prevented emissions. Now they’re getting into the carbon credit business.
To stay afloat, food banks in the Global South are considering selling controversial offsets for revenue.
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![A man gathers vegetables from a grow house at night]()
![A man gathers vegetables from a grow house at night]()
Following the USDA’s food and farm funding: Here’s what’s been canceled and frozen, and resources for those affected
Your guide to federal funding cuts, plus resources for farmers and food businesses seeking support and solutions.
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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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![close-up of hands picking coffee cherries]()
![close-up of hands picking coffee cherries]()
Climate change has sent coffee prices soaring. Trump’s tariffs will send them higher.
From drought-stricken farms to rising trade barriers, the global coffee industry is facing unprecedented strain.
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![two farmworkers backlist by the sun use long tools to weed a bell pepper field]()
![two farmworkers backlist by the sun use long tools to weed a bell pepper field]()
A long-awaited rule to protect workers from heat stress moves forward, even under Trump
While labor experts say the regulation is progressing quickly, advocacy groups wonder what has taken so long.
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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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![Two cows sit in the background of two huge solar panels in a field]()
![Two cows sit in the background of two huge solar panels in a field]()
USDA abruptly cancels rural energy grant application window
It’s the latest setback for the longstanding REAP program, casting uncertainty over the future of a resource that helps farmers save on energy and install solar.
