The Lobe Rangers are calling out what Big Ag’s dated practices are doing to profit margins, water quality, and their families’ health.

The announcement follows a summer of concerning foodborne illness outbreaks, one of which prompted Chipotle to recall jalapenos.

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Researchers from RMIT University and EPA Victoria detected eight PFAS compounds in rainwater samples collected in Melbourne between 2024 and 2025.

Chronic kidney disease was long thought to be an old person’s malady. Now it’s a multinational health crisis among young Latino migrants who once worked on Central American farms and sugar plantations...

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Have police looked up your travel history? Search Flock Safety audit logs for your license plate.

The OpenAI-Hugging Face cyber incident exposes deep flaws both in the current cybersecurity practices of frontier labs and in the regulatory structures that oversee AI. In a new commentary, Aalok Meht...

Learn about legal strategies to contest AI data center development in your community. Find a land use and zoning lawyer at Super Lawyers.

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A Louisville decision to reinstate a detention policy for immigrants has led to a dramatic increase in requests to hold immigrants for ICE.

As communities across the nation grapple with the rapid expansion of data centers, agricultural experts are raising concerns over the impact these massive facilities could have on our pollinators.

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The Delaware City refinery has appealed a nearly $1 million environmental fine that state regulators imposed earlier this year.

Community members showed up in court last month to support Elijah Gantt, 30, who could do prison time for participating in a protest marking 10 years since Brown was fatally shot by police

The EPA is proposing to eliminate minimum federal public participation requirements for many "minor source" air pollution permits, the very permits often used…

A proposed U.S. pipeline threatens the ancestral lands of the Comcáac community in Mexico’s Puerto Libertad, one of the most important marine ecosystems on Earth

France is using a massive cargo aircraft to dump flame retardants on a wildfire near the wine country city of Bordeaux.

Researchers tested 18 stuffed toys and found that all released at least one targeted PFAS into artificial saliva under mouthing-relevant conditions, with PFHxA driving much of the variation between pr...

Startups are looking to install smaller, quieter AI data software in people’s houses

In a new report, Greenpeace accuses IKEA of contributing to the destruction of some of Europe’s last remaining wilderness areas in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains, warning that the company’s wood sourc...

NLC’s Federal Action Agenda is guided by three core principles: Strengthen the Federal-Local Partnership, Avoid Unfunded Mandates and Safeguard Local Authority. Among our specific advocacy priorities…

Global plans to drill and expand fossil fuel projects overlap with marine protected areas and important fishing grounds, a new report finds.

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The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has officially classified trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) as toxic to reproduction (Category 1B), concluding it "may damage the unborn child" and is “suspected of damag...

New study shows America’s largest underground water source is depleting fast, raising risks for farming, food supply and price volatility.

Michael Cork has conducted analyses showing that air pollution from power sources at AI data centers could have serious health and economic impacts.

Amid the river’s worst water year on record and deadlocked negotiations over its future, the Bureau of Reclamation announced it will impose a new 10-year management plan if the states relying on the r...

8 in 10 leading AI chatbots, like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, regularly gave advice to teen users planning a school shooting and other violent attacks.

The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and energy use and po...

The long read: My friends and I wanted to tell the story of Cuban life, without interference. Before long, I was being isolated, monitored and interrogated

A bill, newly passed by legislators, will expand the state’s capacity to enforce limits on health-harming emissions in overburdened communities.

Even a huge snowpack during the coming winter would only give the river basin states less than two years of storage before reservoirs returned to historic lows.

The agency said that the requirements, which were approved in March 2024, exceed the scope of its statutory authority.

The U.S. Forest Service is using emergency authority to advance the Bear Palmer Forest Health Project, but opponents say the streamlined process could negatively affect forest recovery, wildlife and a...

The province planned to move the mine tailings from Nipissing First Nation to outside Sudbury, Ont., but its lack of consultation got in the way

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Only a couple vendors could likely fulfill what the FBI is after, namely Flock and Motorola.

A local biologist has dedicated six years to arming community groups and individuals with data to help them reduce pollution in the West End.

In addition to preventing an estimated 2.7 million tons of carbon emissions and $2.8 billion in damages, UC Davis researchers determined that fuel treatments prevented nearly 60 premature deaths.

Senate candidate Graham Platner’s key energy goal is to reduce costs for Mainers. He’d also like to tax the “ever-living hell out of the companies that made a lot of money on fossil fuels while they d...

The University promised “to pursue all rights and claims for necessary relief” if a small Michigan community won’t pump water into a data center.

Larry Ellison's Oracle has been forced to pivot to fuel cells to power its massive New Mexico data center, yet environmental concerns remain.

Recently released data show how drought, paltry Western snows and unseasonable heat, all exacerbated by climate change, could be priming the nation for a long wildfire season.

An appeals court ruled the migrant detention site may continue operating in the fragile Everglades, while litigation over the environmental impacts proceeds.

Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?