Economic Slowdown Drives Gruesome Mass Killings of Farm Animals
With Few Buyers on Hand, Farmers Resort to Grotesque Methods: Smothering Thousands of Birds, Steaming Live Hogs to Death... Read more.
Bureau Chief Wants Local Law-Enforcement Authority Over Federal Lands
Environmental Groups Oppose William Perry Pendley's Appointment and Programs... Read more.
Court Says Trump Administration Can’t Stall Environmentalists Challenging Energy Companies
Groups Opposing Pipelines Have Been Cast into Legal Limbo as Corporations Proceed with Projects... Read more.
USDA Uses Faulty Data to Approve Speeding Up Meatpacking Lines
More than 1,100 Hogs Slaughtered Every Hour as the Pandemic Cuts a Deadly Swath Through the Workforce ... Read more.
EPA Gives Farmers Another Month to Use Widely Banned Poison
A Court Threw Out the Agency's Approval of Deadly Dicamba Herbicide, But the Maker Is Pushing for Another Year of Use... Read more.
Radical Republicans Are Already Sabotaging the Next President
Behind-the-Scenes Move At EPA Water Board Shows How Trump Loyalists Are Loading the Government with Corporate Allies... Read more.
Test-Tube Plants: Agriculture Department Eases the Way
It Helped When a Florida Billionaire Hired a Lobbyist With Close Ties to Trump... Read more.
Microscopic Soot + Coronavirus = Higher Death Rates
So, of Course, Trump's EPA Ignores Harvard Study and Its Own Scientists and Sticks with Lax Air Pollution Standards... Read more.
Corporate Coronavirus Liability Immunity Faces Some Obstacles
The Precedent Set When the Supreme Court Upheld Obamacare May Be the Public's Best Defense... Read more.
Beef: Trump Administration Rigs the Market
With Supermarket Prices Rising, Agriculture Department Backs Giant COVID-Ridden Meatpacking Firms Over Ranchers and Feedlot Operators... Read more.