Recent reports have raised significant concerns about the widespread contamination of American farmland by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly known as forever chemicals. For decades, municipal sewage, treated and repurposed as fertilizer, has been spread across millions of acres of farmland, under federal encouragement, due to its nutrient-rich content
The immediate impetus is SB 89, which becomes state law on July 1, which allows the ATC to issue Bloomington up to two new three-way permits outside the ordinary population-based quota
Claimants told the court, in the Emergency Motion to Compel record, that their personal records had been lost over time or destroyed by natural disasters across the southeastern tobacco belt
Of these violations, 1,065 were for the sale of cigars (63 percent), 419 were for cigarette sales (24.8 percent), and only 16 violations or less than 1 percent were related to oral nicotine products
After all, Big Tobacco has not always been synonymous with scientific integrity