"Farmers around the world are spraying more chemicals than ever on their crops as they battle insect pests. Many of these small, hungry creatures have benefited from climate change, which has expanded their range, extended their breeding season, and made them harder to control with pesticides."
"Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump’s climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear."
"Soon, weed-killing chemicals will start falling from the sky over the Red Hill area of Boulder county, Colorado."
"A group of California lawmakers and state oversight officials have admonished Los Angeles County health authorities for failing to attend a public hearing on their response to a toxic chemical reaction within Chiquita Canyon Landfill."
"Big Oil reaped more than $50 billion in windfall profits as conflicts in the Persian Gulf and Russia roiled energy markets and drove refining results to record highs."
"The Environmental Protection Agency’s response to the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment will be investigated after local residents of the small town on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and Vice President JD Vance pressed for the review."
"At the height of the Los Angeles fires in 2025, millions of residents were exposed in a 24-hour period to toxic lead levels from smoke that were 80 times higher than the typical background level, according to a new study."
"Utilities, developers and technology companies have spent tens of millions to pass Prop 45, which fast-tracks “essential” projects by limiting public and environmental review."
"The plastics industry spent decades convincing consumers that throwing used products stamped with the “chasing arrows” symbol into a curbside bin meant they would be recycled. Now, amid growing awareness that many of those items never get reprocessed, the industry is championing a pair of proposals in Congress that would give misleading recycling claims the support of federal law."
"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 water contamination likely stems from high use of antibiotics in animals housed in concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, according to the study."
