Claims about hydropower as a clean, green, sustainable power source,” writes Christopher Ketcham, “issue with equal aplomb from government regulators, enviro journalists, climate academics and ...

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PFAS, which reliably repel water, grease, and heat, are used in everything from paper plates to rain jackets. The compounds,” writes Bridget Huber, “which don’t break down in the ...

A fraction of U.S. farmers, about 3.5 percent, receive payments for oil, gas, and wind energy production on their land, and those payments provide “substantial income,” said a USDA report. With the ...

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Sue Hunter in her greenhouse on her 150-acre farm in Unity, Maine. Hunter, a former dairy farmer, was about to turn the operation over to her grandson when testing revealed elevated levels of PFAS ...

Testing has confirmed that antiviral medications used against the seasonal flu would be effective against the H5N1 bird flu virus that also infects dairy cattle, said the Centers for Disease Control.

Testing has confirmed that antiviral medications used against the seasonal flu would be effective against the H5N1 bird flu virus that also infects dairy cattle, said the Centers for Disease Control.

Testing has confirmed that antiviral medications used against the seasonal flu would be effective against the H5N1 bird flu virus that also infects dairy cattle, said the Centers for Disease Control.

House Republicans are following the “same ideological strategy that led to the failures of farm bills on the House floor in 2014 and 2018,” said Georgia Rep. David Scott, the senior Democrat on the ...

Pointing to war in Ukraine and conflict in the Middle East, the Biden administration announced an emergency waiver allowing summertime sale nationwide of E15, a higher blend of ethanol into gasoline ...