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Oregon DEQ: Don’t regulate dairy air emissions just yet
DEQ said it does not have funding to design and implement a regulatory program.
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The climate art vandals are embarrassing
Aesthetics matter in politics. But not like … this.
The Field Report: Morality at the center of Supreme Court arguments over raised pigs in crates
Plus, the Department of Justice updates the H-2A program and a new study shows climate change exacerbates farm runoff.
Next on the Supreme Court docket: farm animal welfare
Oral arguments begin next week in a case targeting California’s Proposition 12, a law that bans the sale of pigs raised in confinement. The ruling has implications for a wide range of other environmental and public health laws.
Book review: When thousands of hogs are your neighbors
In “Wastelands,” Corban Addison tells the extraordinary story of how some North Carolina residents stood up to a meatpacking company polluting their communities.
Lucy King, Adam Westbrook, Jonah M. Kessel: See the true cost of your cheap chicken
Enter a chicken farm and see how your cheap dinner strips the dignity of both the chicken and the farmer.
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Barbara Ellen: If we can grow cruelty-free meat in a lab, what is there to beef about?
With the developments in laboratory-cultured meat, vegetarians and vegans need to ask themselves: is it still about animal welfare or is it about stopping people eating meat?
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