Democrats’ sweeping gains in this week’s congressional midterms, driven in part by voter frustration in farm states, give the party new leverage in Farm Bill negotiations, according to farmers and farm advocates.
The multinational company 3M agreed Tuesday to pay $7.35 billion to settle claims with more than 100,000 plaintiffs who say they suffered health impacts due from the company’s PFAS-containing firefighting foam.
A toxicologist set out to measure microplastic pollution in the Sierra Nevada during snowstorms. What she found was microplastics even in the most remote locations.
Amid the election-year debates, political advertisements and polls, one simple Iowa yard sign sums ups a core issue seen driving voter sentiment. It reads simply: “Fix the damn water.”
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are pervasive in streams and rivers downstream of large Wisconsin livestock operations, increasing the risk of superbugs that make people sick and cannot be treated, according to a new study.
The study used computer modeling to estimate that the latest reports from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) capture only 44% of the average combined concentration of 25 PFAS in US water systems.
Soon, the chemicals will start falling from the sky over the Red Hill area of Boulder County, Colorado. The wildland is known for its biodiversity, home to hundreds of important species and a concentration of rare environmental resources. Farms and ranchland lie below.
But any day now hundreds of acres of Red Hill are set to become the target for drone spraying of a chemical herbicide that comes with a host of concerns.
Maryland is spending millions in taxpayer dollars on technology designed to protect people and water from animal manure pollution at large-scale livestock farms — but has wasted money on fruitless projects and shown little evidence that the investments are working, according to a new report.
A study led by NYU Langone Health researchers adds to growing evidence that replacement chemicals can pose their own health risks.
If you swam, fished or paddled a lake or river in the US over the past couple of years, there’s a more than 80% chance the water contained toxic “forever chemicals,” according to a new report.