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Though he has a more aggressive critique and plan of action to curb farm-related pollution and cancer, Chris Jones is not alone in identifying Iowa’s $120 billion-a-year farm sector as a hazard to Iowa’s 3.2 million residents.
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Though he has a more aggressive critique and plan of action to curb farm-related pollution and cancer, Chris Jones is not alone in identifying Iowa’s $120 billion-a-year farm sector as a hazard to Iowa’s 3.2 million residents.
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Wes Jackson’s The Land Institute started as an adventurous idea far outside the agricultural mainstream. It’s now making its way closer to the center of farm science. That measure of success was cheered by supporters at The Institutes 50th birthday. circleofblue.org/2026/agricu…
He understood that embracing efficiency, ever-higher crop yields, and confining farm animals in factory feeding operations was a system that antagonized principles of nature instead of working with them.
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Humanity is now more exposed than ever to all manner of deadly climate-related events. Who can imagine seeking crossing documents at a Chinese border station in the Himalayas and dying under a stampede of water and mud 200 feet tall?
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It’s been a long time coming but the distaste for demon corn is well deserved. Here’s why.
Corn is an absurdly prolific water polluter. The toxic products used to grow corn produce massive water contamination in every one of the corn-growing states. circleofblue.org/2026/opinio…
For the first time in over a century the farm sector’s biggest companies are encountering intensifying clamor for accountability for how they produce and market their products, as well as how they affect human health. circleofblue.org/2026/opinio…
The veil of intimidation raised by the Farm Bureau and its farm sector allies is being shredded in Iowa. Pollution and cancer are on the ballot. Never has industrial ag come under this much scrutiny and criticism. Journalism played a huge part. circleofblue.org/2026/opinio…
Ending barriers to new roads on lands where no bulldozer has tread is an outrage that should appall every American. circleofblue.org/2026/opinio…
I’m saddened by the death of James Bruggers, a great environmental journalist of my generation. Jim spent much of his consequential career reporting on the condition of land, water, air, and communities for the Louisville Courier Journal in Kentucky. courier-journal.com/story/ne…
Donald Trump has a thing for ethanol. But why? Inordinately expensive to taxpayers, monstrously polluting, linked to cancer incidence in Corn Belt states, fermenting corn for fuel would appear to sane people as an insane pursuit. circleofblue.org/2026/opinio…
Republican candidate for governor campaigned against farm pollution and cancer and beat the Trump-backed MAGA man.
New post by Keith Schneider @modeshift: Farming’s mammoth water pollution and its consequences for public health are on the ballot in Iowa, where the primary election is happening today.
#ag #water #environment #cancer
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The closure of the Strait accomplished what decades of climate and clean energy advocacy could not. It’s shifting big investments away from fossil-based energy and poured tens of billions of dollars into cleaner energy and transportation - except in U.S. circleofblue.org/2026/opinio…
Utah wants to be a center of commercial nuclear manufacturing and power generation. Is it practical or impossible. Big goal that’s hard to reach. sltrib.com/news/2026/04/27/u…
War gaming desal plants in the Middle East. Dropping bombs on a region’s freshwater supply is a war crime. Who threatened it first. Our maniac president. He’s an American disaster. circleofblue.org/2026/supply…
The right to gather and protest in public is under attack in states. A new form of corporate vigilantism. Not clubs and guns. Rather, state legislation. It’s insidious and dangerous. circleofblue.org/2026/opinio…
Trump’s unfathomable orders to keep old coal plants in operation are disrupting electricity markets and increasing the cost of electricity for customers. They are also producing millions of tons of toxic air and water pollution that would have been halted. circleofblue.org/2026/water-…
One of the administration’s latest environmental outrages: its attack on the compelling progress the country has been making on reducing contamination from mercury, one of the primary chemical pollutants of concern in the 1970s.
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