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Tainted Water, Tainted Power — Inside a Hog-Farm Empire [1]

A powerful politician and his family’s groundwater-polluting agricultural business were the focus of an award-winning series that delved into the intersection of politics, power, privilege and regulatory capture. In the latest Inside Story Q&A, journalist Yanqi Xu discusses how the reporting uncovered deep and unexpected impacts on small town economies, water quality and the living conditions of the hog farms’ neighbors.

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Agriculture [3]
Chemicals [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Health [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
People & Population [11]
Pollution [12]
Waste [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [16]
Visibility: 
Public [17]
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Popular NOAA Climate Website Will Be Hobbled, After Trump Cuts Entire Staff [18]

"A widely used federal website that publishes information about changing weather patterns, drought conditions, agricultural best-practices, atmospheric changes and greenhouse gas emissions will no longer be updated, according to current and former employees familiar with the site. The website will stop publishing new content on July 1."

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [20]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Journalism & Media [10]
Science [21]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NPR [22], 06/16/2025
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Analysis: 10 Ways That Trump’s Tax Bill Would Undermine His Energy Promises [23]

"President Donald Trump has promised to reduce gas prices, improve energy security, create domestic manufacturing jobs, boost the economy, and ensure that Americans breathe the cleanest air. But by gutting the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, Congress’ big new budget bill would undermine all of these objectives – and more."

Climate Change [19]
Consumer [24]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [8]
Environmental Studies [26]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [12]
Transportation [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [30], 06/13/2025
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EPA Just Delayed Reporting Safety Data On 16 Toxic Chemicals. What To Know. [31]

"The Environmental Protection Agency extended the deadline for reporting health and safety data for 16 toxic chemicals, including benzene, BPA and vinyl chloride."

Chemicals [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Environmental Studies [26]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [12]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [32], 06/13/2025
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"Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035" [33]

"In a week when the Trump administration moved forward on multiple fronts to repeal U.S. climate policies, a new analysis quantified the potential costs for public health, households and the economy—including a stunning $1.1 trillion reduction in U.S. gross domestic product by 2035."

Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [8]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 06/13/2025
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"California Sues Trump Administration Over Right to Clean Air" [35]

"The state’s latest lawsuit charges the administration with illegally targeting its authority to set tougher vehicle-emission standards. Ten attorneys general from states that follow those rules joined the suit."

Air [36]
Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [12]
Transportation [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [37]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 06/13/2025
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"Utah Republican Proposes Sale Of More Than 2 Million Acres Of US Lands" [39]

"More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold to states or other entities under a budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, reviving a longtime ambition of Western conservatives to cede lands to local control after a similar proposal failed in the House."

Biodiversity [40]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Justice [7]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [41]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [42], 06/13/2025
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"Developers Propose More Than 100 New Gas Power Plants in Texas" [43]

"Companies plan to build more than 100 new gas-fired power plants in Texas in the next few years amid a race to meet enormous electrical demand from energy-hungry industries, according to a report released Wednesday by the Environmental Integrity Project, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit."

Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [8]
Infrastructure [27]
Pollution [12]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [44]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 06/12/2025
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"Trump’s Second Term Is Creating ‘A Limbo Moment’ For US Battery Recyclers" [46]

"The president hasn't directly targeted the nascent industry, but his clean energy rollbacks could hurt it." 

Chemicals [4]
Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [8]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [41]
Technology [47]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Grist [48], 06/11/2025
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"Toxic Truth? The Cookware Craze Redefining ‘Ceramic’ And ‘Nontoxic’" [49]

"The cookware industry has entered a golden age, largely driven by the wild success of a new generation of “nontoxic” and “nonstick” designer ceramic pans backed by stars including Selena Gomez, Stanley Tucci and Oprah Winfrey. But the pans are probably not “nontoxic” some independent testing and research suggests."

Chemicals [4]
Consumer [24]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Health [6]
People & Population [11]
Pollution [12]
Technology [47]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [50], 06/11/2025
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