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"Pesticide Use And Cancer Risk Rise Together Across America’s Heartland"

"America’s farmers and farmworkers, their families and neighbors, are being diagnosed with cancer at rates higher than the national average. A growing body of research indicates that pesticides are partly to blame."

Source: Investgate Midwest, 02/20/2026

Doctors, Scientists and Kids Sue EPA for Backtracking on Climate Regs

"Two lawsuits filed Wednesday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals mark the beginning of a rocky legal road for the Environmental Protection Agency following its reversal of a 2009 rule underpinning federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions."

Source: Inside Climate News, 02/20/2026

"E.P.A. Plans to Loosen Mercury Rules for Coal Plants, Documents Show"

"The Environmental Protection Agency plans this week to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, a powerful neurotoxin that can impair babies’ brain development, internal agency documents show."

Source: NYTimes, 02/20/2026

"FDA Reverses Course And Will Review Moderna’s mRNA-Based Flu Shot"

"The Food and Drug Administration has reversed course and agreed to review Moderna’s application for the first mRNA-based flu vaccine under a revised approach, company and federal officials said Wednesday."

Source: Washington Post, 02/19/2026

"Environmental Protest Group Says FBI Is Investigating It For Terrorism"

"Environmental group Extinction Rebellion said on Wednesday it was under federal US investigation and that some of its members had been visited by FBI agents, including from the agency’s taskforce on extremism, in the last year."

Source: Reuters, 02/19/2026

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