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Anaerobic digester loans showed “significant delinquency rates,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, while environmental groups see the technology driving an expansion of large-scale animal farming operations.

The federal government’s pause on new loans for anaerobic digesters, the controversial method of converting animal manure from large-scale feeding operations into biogas, will now extend through the end of the year.

USDA Extends Pause on Loans for Controversial Digesters That Turn Manure Into Biogas

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In Florida, an Agricultural Town in Need of an Economic Boost Eyes Hyperscale Data Centers

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Across the state’s heartland, communities such as Indiantown are weighing proposals for hyperscale data centers. The massive facilities would reshape Florida’s rural lands.

INDIANTOWN, Fla.—Carroll McAllister frets over the prospect of a hyperscale data center opening next to the grassy expanse where she grew up, in a shack her father built.

In Florida, an Agricultural Town in Need of an Economic Boost Eyes Hyperscale Data Centers

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Malnourished Gray Whales of the Eastern North Pacific Are in ‘Serious Trouble’

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The population has plummeted over the past seven years as climate change triggers mass starvation in warming Arctic waters.

SEATTLE—Exceptionally skinny gray whales—enfeebled by starvation and mangled by blunt-force trauma—are washing up this spring along the coast of Washington state in numbers that alarm marine-mammal scientists.

Malnourished Gray Whales of the Eastern North Pacific Are in ‘Serious Trouble’

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Sewage and Fuel Leaks Contaminate the Potomac River, Source of Drinking Water for More Than 5 Million People

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Observers believe regulatory failures contributed to catastrophic sewage and fuel leaks in the watershed. The river was recently named the most endangered in the nation.

The warning signs were years in the making. And yet, regulators failed to heed the writing on the wall, according to Dean Naujoks.

Sewage and Fuel Leaks Contaminate the Potomac River, Source of Drinking Water for More Than 5 Million People

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