Iowa has the nation's second-highest cancer rate and water with high nitrate content. Is there a connection? Groups pair up ...

Senate Bill 80 would have prevented new large livestock farms in the Oregon's three groundwater management areas.

An initiative between the Iowa Environmental Council and the Harkin Institute will explore the relationship between environmental risk factors and cancer rates in Iowa. The initiative will combine ...

“Let me let me just clarify that swine confined animal feeding operations are not your grandpa's hog operation. This, this particular one that was built, in the watershed was, contained 6500 ...

Golden said he nonetheless held a public hearing on Senate Bill 80, which would ban the construction or expansion of “confined animal feeding operations” in the state’s “groundwater ...

Oregon regulators would gain new powers to enter private rural properties under a bill that aims to make the state government ...

The Oregon Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling in a case that accuses the Tillamook County Creamery Association of “greenwashing” practices.

Speakers identified industrial agriculture practices, like the over-application of nutrients to cropland and runoff from confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, as key sources of pollutants ...

Senate Bill 80 would have prohibited the Oregon Department of Agriculture from issuing a permit to new large confined animal feeding operations, or smaller CAFOs wanting to expand into the ...

Billions of animals are killed each year to feed an unsustainable demand for meat. Lab-grown meat—also known as cultured, cultivated, cell-based, or clean ...

Iowa is an outlier for the wrong reasons, according to several environmental advocates who spoke at the Harkin Institute’s annual wellness symposium, which this year focused on the future of clean ...