# The New Lede: Redefining environmental journalism – An initiative of EWG

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## Posts
- [Michigan regulators approve dairy CAFO in pollution hotspot](https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/08/michigan-cafo-dairy-manure-pollution-water/): Michigan is giving a green light to a large new concentrated dairy farm that would add millions of gallons of animal waste to a region where water quality is already suffering from manure saturation\. 
- [WATCH: The EPA says "PFAS Out\." Its actions say otherwise\.](https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/08/epa-pfas-rollbacks-data-centers/): Despite promises made to limit PFAS, the Trump administration’s regulatory rollbacks and approval of new types of PFAS signal what observers see as a sharp contradiction: commitments to reduce exposure to the so\-called “forever chemicals,” followed by policies that increase the risks of exposure for millions of Americans\.
- [The EPA says they want “PFAS Out\.” Their policies are allowing more of them in](https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/08/the-epa-says-they-want-pfas-out-their-policies-are-allowing-more-of-them-in/): Despite promises made to limit PFAS, the Trump administration's regulatory rollbacks and approval of new types of PFAS signal what observers see as a sharp contradiction: commitments to reduce exposure to the so\-called “forever chemicals,” followed by policies that increase the risks of exposure for millions of Americans\.
- [EPA stalls long\-planned nitrate cancer review as pollution crisis grows](https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/08/epa-nitrates-cancer-drinking-water/): The US Environmental Protection Agency \(EPA\) has backed off its re\-assessment of cancer\-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought and that nitrate pollution is at crisis levels in US drinking water\. 
- [Facing up to forever chemicals — a spreading problem](https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/07/maine-sewage-sludge-pfas-farms/): Songbird Farm, perched high on a ridge in Unity, Maine, was once a hub of activity\. Now the fields lie fallow and the skeletal frame of the abandoned hoophouse is open to the sky\. A passerby might think the property neglected, but the truth is far worse\.

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