David Chen emigrated to the United States from China in 1982. His family came to Utah with little money, support, or English language skills. He grew poinsettias and other plants in landscaping and nursery businesses. The heavy use of agricultural chemicals made him sick, so he stopped using them and started farming vegetables in greenhouses. He named his farm Zoe's Garden after his first daughter. Today, the farm supplies grown fruits, vegetables and herbs to CSA members, farmers’ markets, and local restaurants.
Braven Environmental in Zebulon, North Carolina, shut down its chemical recycling plant. The company has a history of violations regarding mismanagement of hazardous waste and poor housekeeping. The American Chemistry Council has touted the company for its work on recycling plastics.
There is a Cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, with 1,251 cases this morning, 36 of them hospitalized. Ohio has 177 cases, Illinois 141, North Carolina past 110, Indiana 72, Texas 48, and the states posting their own current numbers are already well past 2,000 people.
The bench trial for National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors v. Feldon is set to begin on July 13, 2026. The case considers the constitutionality of Oregon’s Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act (RMA), the first Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging program in the United States. NAW asserts that the RMA is unconstitutional on two grounds: violation of the Due Process Clause and violation of Commerce Clause.
Carlo Petrini created the first edition of Terra Madre in 2004. It has helped change the way the world thinks about food, food producers, and sustainability. It is a global community that grows stronger every time delegates meet. The relationship between Slow Food, Turin and Piedmont, and the region has been very successful.
A monitoring well at the Pinyon Plain uranium mine has been detecting rising arsenic levels since 2025. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality approved an application from Energy Fuels Resources Inc. to raise both the alert levels for arsenic and the limit of the toxic metal in the aquifer detected at the well by 10 percent. Local tribes and environmentalists say the decision threatens the region’s water quality and the public's ability to be alerted to groundwater issues at the mine. The company claims the arsenic issue is natural and not due to the mining.
Bill Marler is an accomplished personal injury and products liability attorney. He began litigating foodborne illness cases in 1993. He represented Brianne Kiner, the most seriously injured survivor of the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak.
Two-thirds of the European Union's population may have been exposed to harmful levels of ozone pollution during last month's record-breaking heat wave. According to the NGO Global Witness, 300 million people, including 100 million children and elderly people, faced higher-than-recommended levels of the toxic pollutant. The report combined data from 162 air quality monitoring stations across Europe.
Ken Paxton is running for the Texas Senate seat against Democratic Rep. James Talarico. Paxton and Jesse Watters are making accusations about his opponent's vegetarianism and veganism as a political tool. What people eat is a symbolic marker of who they are and their political affiliation.
There was a fire at the Lineage cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights on June 17. Residents are fed up with exposure to toxic smoke, the smell of rotting food, and a lack of answers after the fire. There was a town hall meeting at Stevenson Middle School on Thursday evening. Mayor Karen Bass struggled to open the meeting over the loud boos and yelling of community members.
David Chen emigrated to the United States from China in 1982. His family came to Utah with little money, support, or English language skills. He grew poinsettias and other plants in landscaping and nursery businesses. The heavy use of agricultural chemicals made him sick, so he stopped using them and started farming vegetables in greenhouses. He named his farm Zoe's Garden after his first daughter. Today, the farm supplies grown fruits, vegetables and herbs to CSA members, farmers’ markets, and local restaurants.
Braven Environmental in Zebulon, North Carolina, shut down its chemical recycling plant. The company has a history of violations regarding mismanagement of hazardous waste and poor housekeeping. The American Chemistry Council has touted the company for its work on recycling plastics.
There is a Cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, with 1,251 cases this morning, 36 of them hospitalized. Ohio has 177 cases, Illinois 141, North Carolina past 110, Indiana 72, Texas 48, and the states posting their own current numbers are already well past 2,000 people.
The bench trial for National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors v. Feldon is set to begin on July 13, 2026. The case considers the constitutionality of Oregon’s Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act (RMA), the first Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging program in the United States. NAW asserts that the RMA is unconstitutional on two grounds: violation of the Due Process Clause and violation of Commerce Clause.
Carlo Petrini created the first edition of Terra Madre in 2004. It has helped change the way the world thinks about food, food producers, and sustainability. It is a global community that grows stronger every time delegates meet. The relationship between Slow Food, Turin and Piedmont, and the region has been very successful.
A monitoring well at the Pinyon Plain uranium mine has been detecting rising arsenic levels since 2025. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality approved an application from Energy Fuels Resources Inc. to raise both the alert levels for arsenic and the limit of the toxic metal in the aquifer detected at the well by 10 percent. Local tribes and environmentalists say the decision threatens the region’s water quality and the public's ability to be alerted to groundwater issues at the mine. The company claims the arsenic issue is natural and not due to the mining.
Bill Marler is an accomplished personal injury and products liability attorney. He began litigating foodborne illness cases in 1993. He represented Brianne Kiner, the most seriously injured survivor of the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak.
Two-thirds of the European Union's population may have been exposed to harmful levels of ozone pollution during last month's record-breaking heat wave. According to the NGO Global Witness, 300 million people, including 100 million children and elderly people, faced higher-than-recommended levels of the toxic pollutant. The report combined data from 162 air quality monitoring stations across Europe.
Ken Paxton is running for the Texas Senate seat against Democratic Rep. James Talarico. Paxton and Jesse Watters are making accusations about his opponent's vegetarianism and veganism as a political tool. What people eat is a symbolic marker of who they are and their political affiliation.
There was a fire at the Lineage cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights on June 17. Residents are fed up with exposure to toxic smoke, the smell of rotting food, and a lack of answers after the fire. There was a town hall meeting at Stevenson Middle School on Thursday evening. Mayor Karen Bass struggled to open the meeting over the loud boos and yelling of community members.