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Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism. Visit online at www.investigatemidwest.org.

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Big Food Routinely Sues Governments to Overturn Public Health Policies

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5 Things to Know About AI Data Centers Rolling Out Across Rural U.S.

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$15 Billion AI Data Center Coming to Oklahoma Town — Developer Won’t Say How Much Water It Will Use

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Survey: Rural America More Concerned About Data Centers Than People Who Live in Cities or Suburbia

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Pesticides, Cancer and the Supreme Court: 5 Things You Need to Know

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Pesticide Banned in Over 70 Countries Being Spewed Into Mississippi Basin Air

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Cancer Survivors, Doctors, Journalists Weigh in on Pesticides and Public Health

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18 Different Pesticide Chemicals Found in Illinois Public Playgrounds and Parks

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Bayer Promised EPA Chief Zeldin ‘a Small Thanks’ for Removing Cancer Warnings About Roundup

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Ohio Ranks No. 12 Among States With Highest Cancer Rates — What’s to Blame?

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Teachers Routinely Forced to Rush Kids Indoors as Nearby Farms Spray Chemicals

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One Farmer’s Uphill Battle Against Cancer and Toxic Pesticides

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Cancer Rates Are Soaring in Rural Missouri Towns Where Pesticides Are Widely Used

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Industry-Friendly Loophole Lets Tyson Pollute, Deplete Groundwater Supplies

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Bayer Takes Fight to Avoid Glyphosate Litigation to the Supreme Court

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‘UnReal’: Boston Startup Debuts First Lab-grown Milk

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EPA ‘Asleep at the Switch’ When It Comes to Testing Sewage Sludge for PFAS

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RFK Jr. Has Targeted GMO Corn Syrup. That Puts Him at Odds With America’s Corn Belt

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Syngenta Hid Health Risks of Its Popular Herbicide While Hauling in Big Profits

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Bird Flu: A Windfall for Largest Industrial Chicken Producers?

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America Is Losing Farmers as Private Investors Scoop Up Land

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Big Meat’s Big Dump: Tyson Released 371 Million Pounds of Waste Into U.S. Waterways

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Bill Gates Set Up 20 Shell Companies to Hide Purchase of $113 Million of Nebraska Farmland

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Why Locally Produced, High-Quality Meat Costs So Much

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Big Corporations, Investors Scooping Up Vast Swaths of Nebraska Farmland

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Want to Know the Risks of That Pesticide on Your Food or Yard? EPA Finally Makes Databases Public.

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Iowa’s Industrial Hog Farms Are Killing the State’s Fish With Animal Waste and Agrochemicals

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18 Years Later, EPA Still Isn’t Tracking Health-Harming Air Pollution From Industrial Factory Farms

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Factory Farms Spew Manure Into U.S. Waterways — Why Doesn’t the EPA Stop Them?

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8 More States Eye Limits on Foreign Ownership of Farmland

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EPA to Ban Pet Collars That Contain Chemical Linked to Brain Damage in Children