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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks as US Vice President JD Vance visits the East Palestine Fire Department in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, 2025. (REBECCA DROKE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The Trump administration has all but stopped enforcing environmental laws

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Questions remain about using treated sewage on farms

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For a new generation of farmers, accessing land is the first step toward tackling consolidation

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Monroe Laws and Antoine Money mix ingredients to make a nutraloaf, a meal typically given to inmates for misbehavior involving food or bodily waste, before cooking it in a kitchen at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Del. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Michigan’s failed effort to privatize prison kitchens and the future of institutional food

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