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Michigan reimagines its toxic land as a solar-powered future

Michigan wants to clean up its polluted past by turning contaminated industrial sites into a new solar-powered frontier.

Douglas J. Guth reports for Inside Climate News.

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Mushrooms are cleaning up wildfire ruins — and may revive toxic land across America

After the deadly Los Angeles wildfires turned homes into chemical-laced rubble, one scientist is using mushrooms and native plants to detoxify the land and rethink how to clean up after disaster.

Mattha Busby reports for Atmos.

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Trump’s EPA quietly backs off from enforcing pollution laws

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically scaled back enforcement against major polluters, raising fears about the future of public health protections.

Tom Perkins reports for Grist.

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Soil tests reveal toxic metals lingering in L.A. burn zones after government cleanup

After federal agencies declined to test soil for toxic substances following the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires, Los Angeles Times reporters conducted independent testing and found alarming levels of contamination on properties across Los Angeles County.

Tony Briscoe, Noah Haggerty and Hayley Smith report for the Los Angeles Times.

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As regenerative agriculture gains momentum, report warns of “greenwashing”

“It is scientifically and ethically disingenuous to claim to be regenerating soil while you are using synthetic chemicals."

Editor's note: This story was originally published in The New Lede, a journalism project of the Environmental Working Group, and is republished here with permission.

Billed as a type of food system that works in harmony with nature, “regenerative” agriculture is gaining popularity in US farm country, garnering praise in books and films and noted as one of the goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement associated with new Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Opinion: Trump-era science cuts opens the door wide to industry-fueled pollution

The Trump administration’s move to gut EPA science programs could let polluting industries rewrite the rules on cancer-causing chemicals, writes Jennifer Sass for Scientific American.

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Plants are struggling to breathe in a world full of plastic and smoke

Photosynthesis — the ancient process that feeds us and cools the planet — is under pressure from pollution, plastic, and climate change.

Jack Marley reports for The Conversation.

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