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"Bees Facing a Poisoned Spring" [1]

"A new generation of pesticides is making honeybees far more susceptible to disease, even at tiny doses, and may be a clue to the mysterious colony collapse disorder that has devastated bees across the world, the US government's leading bee researcher has found. Yet the discovery has remained unpublished for nearly two years since it was made by the US Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Public [4]
Source: UK Independent [5], 01/20/2011
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"Administration Seeks to Restrict Antibiotics in Livestock" [6]

"The Obama administration announced Monday that it would seek to ban many routine uses of antibiotics in farm animals in hopes of reducing the spread of dangerous bacteria in humans."
Agriculture [2]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NYTimes [8], 07/14/2009
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Long-Banned Pesticide Still Showing Up In Long Beach And Other Communities [9]

"A highly toxic pesticide that was banned in California more than two decades ago is still widely used across the state, potentially endangering communities near farm fields and bustling shipyards, according to a new study."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [12]
Public [4]
California [13]
Source: LA Times [14], 01/23/2026
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"Bureau of Land Management Revokes American Prairie Bison Leases" [15]

"The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Friday that it is revoking grazing permits in Phillips County [Montana] that American Prairie had been using to sustain its herd of bison."

Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Wildlife [18]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [7]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [19]
Source: Montana Free Press [20], 01/22/2026
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"Sales of Antibiotics for Farm Animals Spiked in 2024" [21]

"Though a direct cause is unknown, the jump renews concerns over antibiotic resistance and cuts to the federal agencies that work to reduce it."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [17]
Food [23]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Civil Eats [24], 01/22/2026
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"Brazil's Seed Collectors Combat Amazon Deforestation" [25]

"Restoration of forestland and other areas is taking root, but lags far behind the rapid rate of deforestation in the Amazon."

Activism [26]
Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [16]
Climate Change [27]
Forests [28]
People & Population [29]
Public [4]
South America [30]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [31], 01/21/2026
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How EPA Ethics Officials Cleared Former Industry Insiders To Be Regulators [32]

"Environmental Protection Agency ethics officials have interpreted impartiality guidelines in a way that has allowed several former industry insiders to oversee dramatic changes to chemical regulations, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show."

Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [16]
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [29]
Pollution [12]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [33], 01/20/2026
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Iran’s Regime Has Survived War. Environmental Crises May Bring It Down. [34]

"Decades of water depletion, dam building and repression of scientists and environmentalists have driven Iran toward ecological crises that are fueling protests rocking the country."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [27]
Disasters [35]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Government [37]
Infrastructure [38]
Natural Resources [39]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [4]
Middle East [41]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 01/15/2026
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"As MAHA Wages War On Pesticides, The GOP Is Caught In The Middle" [43]

"The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement’s crusade against pesticides is creating divisions in the Republican Party, as some members back the industry while others stand with MAHA activists."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [12]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [44], 01/14/2026
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Trump’s Biggest Inaugural Donor Benefits from Worker Safety Weakening [45]

"Meatpacking giant JBS gave $5 million; industry soon celebrated a decision to make those on the assembly line work faster."

Agriculture [2]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [17]
Food [23]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [29]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [7]
International [46]
Source: Capital & Main [47], 01/13/2026
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