Trump Unveils New Loan Guarantees for Beleaguered Farmers March 30, 2026 By Elizabeth Elkin and Skylar Woodhouse President Donald Trump announced new loan guarantees for farmers and food suppliers, a bid to bolster US agricultural communities squeezed...
One Killed After Natural Gas Pipeline Explodes In Louisiana August 20, 2024 By Elizabeth Elkin and Ari Natter The US Coast Guard is investigating a fatal blast at a natural gas pipeline in Louisiana. A contractor working on...
Pipeline Brawl in Louisiana Rattles Industry Desperate to Build June 11, 2024 By Elizabeth Elkin A legal battle in Louisiana is hobbling construction of three pipeline projects worth more than $2 billion. Yet the litigation...
Biden’s LNG-Permit Halt Challenged by 16 States in Lawsuit March 22, 2024 By Elizabeth Elkin, Madlin Mekelburg and Ari Natter Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other US states challenged the Biden administration’s suspension of new licenses to export...
Biden’s LNG-Permit Halt Challenged by 16 States in Lawsuit March 22, 2024 By Elizabeth Elkin, Madlin Mekelburg and Ari Natter Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other US states challenged the Biden administration’s suspension of new licenses to export...
Bird Flu Outbreak Nears Worst Ever in U.S. With 37 Million Dead Chickens May 6, 2022 By Zijia Song, Elizabeth Elkin and Michael Hirtzer A bird flu virus that’s sweeping across the U.S. is rapidly becoming the country’s worst outbreak, having already killed over...
Use of Fertilizer Behind Explosions, Fires Declines Due to High Risks February 2, 2022 By Elizabeth Elkin The nitrogen fertilizer causing a stir over imminent danger of explosion in North Carolina has been fading from the U.S....
Overheated, Underprotected: Climate Change Is Killing U.S. Farm Laborers August 13, 2021 By Elizabeth Elkin Florencio Gueta Vargas showed up for his usual shift at a hops farm in Toppenish, Washington, on Thursday, July 29....
Drought Indicators in Western States Flash Warnings of the ‘Big One’ June 24, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan and Elizabeth Elkin Sarah Brunner opened the irrigation spigots on her farm in March, three months early. The rain should have still been...