The Supreme Court sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer. The high court, in a 7-2 ruling, held that Roundup cannot be sued in state courts for failure to warn because federal regulators have found a cancer link unlikely and do not require a warning label. Environmental groups and lawyers representing people who believe they were harmed by Roundup denounced the ruling.
There are 48 million foodborne illnesses in the U.S. each year, with 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. One in 6 Americans gets food poisoning each year. The most common cause of food poisoning is cross-contamination between food and drink contaminated with a harmful germ. Food poisoning can be fatal.
Rebel canners practice water-bath canning, using unauthorized, untested, or “family” recipes, reusing canning lids and oven canning. The USDA recommends against canning certain foods, such as dairy and pureed squash, which can cause botulism.
Venture Global is building one of the largest liquefied natural gas export terminals in the U.S. on some of the most climate-vulnerable land in the country. The company's first terminal spewed hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants into the air in its first year of operation. Venture Global’s growth has made its founders enormously wealthy.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been promoting the Paleo diet. The new food pyramid has a marbled rib eye at the top of the pyramid. The Paleo diet is based on the idea that people should eat as their prehistoric ancestors did. The current version of this diet has been around since the 1970s.
The most significant blaze, Snyder Mesa Fire, has burned more than 28,000 acres after crossing from Utah into Colorado and remains completely uncontained. The fires are concentrated near the Utah border and have spread into Mesa County, including areas close to Fruita and Glade Park. Three federal firefighters have been killed and two others injured after being caught in a “burnover” incident.
In the 19th century, cancer was a medical rarity in the United States. Since 1950, the incidence of cancer in the U.S. had increased to about 130 to 160 cases per 100,000 people, and by 1975 it had reached 400. The rise has been closely related to changes in diet, especially the increase in linoleic acid (LA) intake. LA has been associated with altered cell membrane structure, which may increase susceptibility to oxidation, chronic inflammation, and immune stress. Pentadecanoic acid and choline help stabilize membranes, support mitochondrial and immune function, and counteract LA-driven damage.
8% of the U.S. population could face water shortages in the future, according to the National Water Availability Assessment. According to Dr. Edward Stets, groundwater depletion is a major reason for potential water shortages. There is also an ongoing mega drought in the Western United States. Snowfall in the West has been very low this year, especially in the mountains.
USDA Inspector General John Walk warned Congress on Thursday that fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has allowed individuals linked to terrorist groups, foreign adversaries and transnational criminal organizations to access and abuse food stamps. Republicans argue that gaps in oversight and data sharing have allowed billions of taxpayer dollars to be lost to fraud and abuse within the nation's food stamp program. Democrats argue the hearing could be used to justify cuts to food assistance for eligible Americans.
Lent Hill Dairy Farm in Steuben County, New York, uses biogas produced by anaerobic co-digesters to power an on-site cryptomine. Ag-Grid Energy is the first operation of its kind in the country. Tech giants are looking for alternative fuel sources to power hyperscale data centers.