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This story was originally published by Grist. When the White House took down a critical environmental justice tool just three days into President Trump’s administration, a team of data scientists and ...

President Donald Trump has significantly reduced staffing within a civil rights office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently investigating dozens of complaints, including two involving ...

President Donald Trump’s order to freeze most federal grants and loans has created panic and uncertainty within the ...

Egg prices remain volatile in the wake of the ongoing bird flu outbreaks, which have decimated commercial poultry and egg ...

This is a public service announcement to any farmer who either has fertilized their crops with sewage sludge or is ...

One of President Donald Trump’s first-term achievements was a major tax cut, which he signed into law in 2017. The Tax Cuts ...

On Aug. 22, 2024, a semi-trailer truck owned by Demaree Trucking, LLC, was hit by another semi on Interstate 57 in eastern Illinois, causing the truck and its cargo of 67 cows to flip over onto the ...

Note: This story was updated 10:23 a.m. Jan. 27, 2025. Nestled along the curves of the Illinois River just outside the town of Hennepin is the country’s largest dry-mill ethanol plant, where a network ...

Lee Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, testifies during his Senate Environment and Public Works confirmation hearing on Jan. 16, ...

Brooke Rollins, President Donald Trump's Secretary of Agriculture nominee, testifies during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing in Washington DC on Jan. 23, 2025. photo by ...