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Donald Trump; A manufacturing plant is located along the banks of the Kanawaha River in South Charleston, W.Va. (Getty/Shawn Thew/AP/Steve Helber)

Tax bill for many big polluters: $0

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
(Getty Images)

Developmental disorders and dental care

David Tuller - KFF Health News
FILE - This Oct. 14, 2015, file photo, shows the Food & Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) (AP)

FDA to open past record to the public

Christina Jewett - KFF Health News
(AP/Matthew Brown)

Trump's energy ambitions on West Coast

Shawn Olson-Hazboun, Hilary Boudet - The Conversation
A team of farmers working at the Bronx Foodway as part of a program from Youth Ministries for Peace & Justice and New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program. (Nathan Hunter/Civil Eats)

The next regeneration

Greta Moran - Grist
A right-wing demonstrator participates in the Denver March Against Sharia Law in Denver, Colorado on June 10, 2017. (Getty/Salon)

The neuroscience of authoritarianism

Chauncey DeVega
FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016 file photo, a marijuana plant awaits judging in the Oregon Cannabis Growers' Fair marijuana plant competition in Salem, Ore. (AP)

Modified yeast may produce THC and CBD

Sarah LaFramboise - Massive Science
A beached whale found dead is seen in Rosarito, Baja California State, Mexico, on May 21, 2018. (Getty/Guillermo Arias)

Humans are causing an extinction event

Nicole Karlis
Psilocybin mushroom (Getty/Betka82)

Denver votes on decriminalizing shrooms

Alex Henderson - Alternet
(Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trump is weakening air regulations

Jason West, Barbara Turpin - The Conversation
Donald Trump; Ronald Reagan (AP/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trump vies for worst enemy of wildlife

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(Robyn Beck/Afp/getty Images)

Will cities put their feet down?

Sharon Jayson - KFF Health News
In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016, Bill Crowell shows his garden made to use less water at his home in the Fountaingrove neighborhood in Santa Rosa, Calif. California water agencies that spent more than $350 million in the last two years of drought to pay property owners to rip out water-slurping lawns are now trying to answer whether the nation's biggest lawn removal experiment was all worth the cost. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) (AP)

Lawns need to die

Eric Holthaus - Grist
In this Feb. 21, 2017 photo, a woman wearing a mask walks to a subway station during the evening rush hour in Beijing. Yet the city’s average reading of the tiny particulate matter PM2.5 - considered a good gauge of air pollution - is still seven times what the World Health Organization considers safe. A group of Chinese lawyers is suing the governments of Beijing and its surrounding areas for not doing enough to get rid of the smog. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (AP)

China reduces smog by moving it

Molly Enking - Grist
In this Nov. 2, 2016 photo, bees gorge on their own honey after being disturbed by beekeeper Davin Larson, who manages six hives of the 15 located at Brooklyn's Green-Wood cemetery, a national historic landmark located on 478 peaceful acres in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (AP)

Urban bee keepers can help save wild bee

Rebecca Ellis - The Conversation
during the second round of The Alfred Dunhill Championship at The Leopard Creek Country Club on December 7, 2007 in Malelane, South Africa. (Warren Little/Getty Images)

Dung beetles may make produce safer

Virginia Gewin - Civil Eats
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Several states move to ban pesticide

Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
A worker from the Cobra Energy Company, contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers, installs power lines in the Barrio Martorel area of Yabucoa, a town where many residents continue without power in Puerto Rico. (AP/Carlos Giusti)

What will a Jones Act waiver mean for PR

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., left, and Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, listen to statements by the minority as Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, a doctor and former congressman, testified on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, before a House Appropriations subcommittee to outline the Trump Administration's proposals to trim the HHS budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

GOP rep wants to fight climate change

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
(Getty/agnormark)

Rich mining companies, poor miners

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
(Getty/Just_Super)

How the autistic are casually belittled

Matthew Rozsa

Hansen says the GND is "nonsense"

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Joe Biden (Getty/Mark Wilson)

What happens to Biden's Moonshot now?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A University of California San Francisco police officer makes a phone call as he stands watch overlooking the Mission Bay campus Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, during a UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) ((AP Photo/Ben Margot))

UCSF may merge with Dignity Health

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
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