Food & Agriculture

EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk

The consultants, who worked for Dow, the pesticide’s manufacturer, help corporate interests defend their products against environmental and health regulations.

By Liza Gross

As Global Hunger Levels Remain Stubbornly High, Advocates Call for More Money to Change the Way the World Produces Food

By Georgina Gustin

VP Candidate Tim Walz Has Deep Connections to Agriculture and Conservation

By Georgina Gustin

Taking Over from the Inside: China’s Growing Reach Into Local Waters

By Ian Urbina, Pete McKenzie and Milko Schvartzman

White House Looks to Safeguard Groundwater Supplies as Aquifers Decline Nationwide

By Wyatt Myskow

The Most Expensive Farm Bill Ever Is Stalled, Holding Back Important Funds Aimed at Combating the Climate Crisis

By Georgina Gustin

Will the Nation’s First Heat Protection Standard Safeguard the Most Vulnerable Workers?

By Liza Gross

Widespread Flooding in Upper Midwest Decimates Farm Towns

By Nina Elkadi

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

Biden Administration Pressed to Act on Federal Contractor Climate Disclosure

By Marianne Lavelle

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

Kraft Heinz Faces Shareholder Vote On Its ‘Deceptive’ Recycling Labels

By James Bruggers