Since last year, worker advocates and industry representatives in Illinois have negotiated over a potentially groundbreaking piece of legislation that would require employers to protect laborers from ...

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This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with the Associated Press. Over the past few years, Kentucky ...

Residents of the United States and Europe have increasingly eaten more meat since 1960, but the two regions’ meat consumption has diverged over the past 15 years. Since 2010, U.S. meat consumption per ...

Dean Volenberg, leader of the viticulture program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, examines grape leaves in an undated photo. photo courtesy of Dean Volenberg, University of Missouri-Columbia ...

Foreign ownership of farmland, which was once a niche concern in agricultural policy circles, has become a prominent political issue in Oklahoma. In this year’s Republican primary for governor, ...

Ohio has one of the highest cancer rates in the nation, often linked to a variety of factors, including industrial pollution ...

Eastern North Dakota is a top corn and soybean-growing region, with many of its counties among the nation’s largest users of pesticides and herbicides. It’s also home to higher-than-average cancer ...

Investigate Midwest will host a free, live virtual panel on May 7 examining pesticide exposure and cancer risk in ...

Of the top 500 U.S. counties for pesticide use, seven are in North Dakota, all within the Red River Valley. Three of those counties — Pembina, Cass and Richland — also have cancer rates higher than ...

In late February, President Trump approved attacks on Iran — and potentially blew a hole through a signature campaign promise. As he ran for a second presidency, Trump said repeatedly he would “defeat ...