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The state concluded there is “no current cause for concern.” Experts worried about the long-term impacts of fracking waste say more research is required.

A decade ago, Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection published a study on radioactivity in the oil and gas industry, motivated by fears that increasing volumes of toxic fracking waste could pose risks to the environment and public health. That study concluded, in part, that more research was needed—especially regarding the impacts on landfills where this waste is disposed.

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Virginia Republicans Want Tax Relief to Ease Gas Costs. There’s Also Electric Vehicles.

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Years of debate on electric vehicles in Virginia have slowed the transition, now under full Democratic control.

Republican state lawmakers want a temporary pause on Virginia’s 32 cent per gallon gas tax to help offset rising prices at the pump resulting from President Donald Trump’s ill-defined and unpopular war in Iran.

Virginia Republicans Want Tax Relief to Ease Gas Costs. There’s Also Electric Vehicles.

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EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

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Inclusion on the agency’s draft Contaminant Candidate List doesn’t require the EPA to monitor or set limits on microplastics in drinking water.

Citing the Trump administration’s promise to “Make America Healthy Again,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a draft list of contaminants maintained by the agency.

EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

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Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

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As Watts’ legal battle drags on, the Trump administration moves to delay a Biden-era rule designed to reform how farmers get paid.

FAIRMONT, N.C.—Craig Watts unlocked a small room made of plywood, flipped on the lights and tapped the photos he had taped to the fuse box.

Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

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