See my work as an investigative reporter at Sentient here.
As California Pushes Increased Ethanol Use, Experts Sound the Alarm on Environmental Impacts (Inside Climate News)
42,000 D.C. homes have lead pipes. Can the city replace them in ten years? (The 51st)
Should We Be Farming in the Desert? (Civil Eats)
Utah Tries a New Water Strategy (Civil Eats)
Ag Pollution Is Keeping Des Moines Water Works Busy. Can It Keep Up? (Inside Climate News)
Children Are at the Core of MAHA. Some Moms Are Ecstatic. (Sentient Media)
EPA Gives Chicago Decades to Replace Lead Pipes, Leaving Communities at Risk (Inside Climate News)
Meet the Farmers Supporting Prop 12 Despite Pork Industry Pushback (Sentient Media)
An Iowa Fertilizer Plant Purchase Spurs Antitrust Concerns (Civil Eats)
Banning concentrated feedlots is on the ballot in Sonoma (High Country News)
A battle in rural Midwest as farmers fight carbon capture pipeline (The New Lede)
How the humble soybean took over the world (National Geographic)
13 Groups Sued EPA Demanding Stricter CAFO Regulation — the Court Struck Them Down (Sentient Media)
Is Roundup Messing With Our Gut Microbiome? (Ambrook Research)
Farmers Tell FTC Chair to Block Koch Industries’ $3.6 Billion Acquisition of Iowa Fertilizer Plant (Barn Raiser)
Widespread Flooding in Upper Midwest Decimates Farm Towns (Inside Climate News)
The Book That Made the ‘Hog Barons’ Squeal (Barn Raiser)
National Farmers Union Pushes Congress on Farm Bill (Barn Raiser)
Animal Agriculture Conference Asks: What’s the Future of Our Food System? (Barn Raiser)
The Workers in the Shadows (Stories from the Border)
Saffron: The Story of the World’s Most Expensive Spice (JSTOR Daily)
Alfalfa: A Crop that Feeds Our Food (JSTOR Daily)
Camellia sinensis: Labor and the Tea Plant (JSTOR Daily)
Switchgrass: An Old Grass Gets a New Use (JSTOR Daily)
Cinchona: A Legacy of Extraction and Extirpation (JSTOR Daily)
Cyanea pohaku: The Plant Discovered Right Before Extinction (JSTOR Daily)
The Iowa Trout Stream at the Center of a Feedlot Fight (Civil Eats)
Farmers Are Overusing Fertilizer, and It’s Polluting Rural Water Supplies (Civil Eats)
A Carbon Capture Monitoring Well Leaked in Illinois. Most Residents Found Out When the World Did (Inside Climate News)
Joliet, Illinois, Plans to Source Its Future Drinking Water From Lake Michigan. Will Other Cities Follow? (Inside Climate News)
Before Brita: A Brief History of Water Filtration (JSTOR Daily)
Driftless Water Defenders Go on the Offensive in Iowa (Barn Raiser)
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