Shoppers, take note. Dave Dickey writes in his latest column: "The bottom line is without empirical evidence and, at the very least, random spot inspections of beef producers, consumers can't trust the labels."
In the Clean Water Act, Congress intended wetlands adjacent to navigable waters of the United States to be afforded protection from pollutants, writes Dave Dickey in his latest column.
A proposed pig concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) spurred five northwest Wisconsin towns to regulate big farms — triggering heated debate. A lawsuit against one of those towns was dropped after it rescinded its ordinance.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires that turned skies along the East Coast a sickly yellow also brought air quality alerts to much of the Midwest this week. Climate experts say that as the planet warms, this kind of unhealthy air will become less of an anomaly.
