Before promoting red meat and dairy, RFK Jr. sued the government over factory farm pollution. Here are five times he took on ...

The Clean Water for Iowa Act (SF 2265) to require factory farm water pollution monitoring at more than 4,000 facilities currently operating in the state without oversight. Quirmbach co-sponsors the ...

Lawsuit challenges Colorado’s failure to protect water, public health from unchecked factory farm pollution ...

Last month, Gov. Wes Moore signed a new executive order creating a “whole of government” approach to environmental justice in order to address pollution in disproportionately exposed communities. With ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation and community groups today appealed a federal court decision upholding a Trump Environmental Protection Agency rule that exempts factory farms from having to publicly report ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Food and Water Watch sued Gov. Jared Polis’s administration today over its failure to protect Colorado waters and public health from ...

New research out this week underscores what many environmental justice advocates in the U.S. have long argued: Animal feeding operations — another term for factory farming — pollute the air, and these ...

USDA bans Mexican cattle imports after screwworm cases increase south of the border. (MemoryCatcher/Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel sided with the U.S. Environmental ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — An advocacy group focused on corporate and governmental accountability around food and water asked a skeptical Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday to order the Environmental ...

The American food system relies heavily on industrial animal agriculture. Thousands or tens of thousands of animals packed into one place have been justified by the industry as a way to feed more ...

Despite a heavy environmental impact, industrial animal agriculture is largely exempted from federal and state air and water pollution regulations.

About 6.8 million. That was the number of farms in the U.S. at their peak in 1935. Today, the number is 1.9 million, a bit over a quarter of that high. Yet when it comes to farm-raised meat, the ...