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The Hawaiian island is a popular biotech testing ground -- and for the moment, the industry can keep its free hand there.
It started as a fight to save a community from the wrecking ball. But the Supreme Court may use it to take out a key provision guarding against racial discrimination instead.
Science writer Maryn McKenna explains why the drugs we rely on may soon stop working.
Heavy spending by industry buries the state's grassroots-driven labeling law.
Sure, the company has to pay a couple million here and a couple million there because of its bad behavior, but it made $45 billion in profits last year, so no problem.
Alternate, Upworthy-style headline: "You'll never believe which bodily fluid is not safe to buy online!"
Start anywhere, follow it everywhere: That's the key to building sustainable local food systems, according to one expert veteran.
Note: There's a terrible, terrible drought going on in Texas.
A series of hurricanes has left the National Flood Insurance Program hopelessly in debt. A 2012 law aimed to fix that, but with residents of flood-prone areas irate, lawmakers are backpedaling.
