Bennet Goldstein is an award-winning writer and photographer based in Madison, Wisconsin.
Bennet Goldstein is an award-winning writer and photographer based in Madison, Wisconsin.
The pig farm exists only on paper, but it has occupied the hearts and minds of area residents and property owners for nearly five years.
He travels the country, bringing tidings of pigs.
Those who call for greater regulation say the occurrences reveal a gap in oversight with potentially dire environmental consequences.
As they demonstrate their qualifications inside interview rooms, job-seeking veterans work to overcome the disadvantages posed by the stigma of disability — whether or not they are disabled.
The failure of state and federal governments to keep contaminants out of the environment, scholars and environmental advocates say, calls into question their commitment to fully protect Indigenous rights.
Removed from Wisconsin, the birthplace of the modern environmental movement, means buried in the ground in Alabama, where the federal government has flagged areas as vulnerable to environmental injustice.
Amid PFAS fears, oversimplified warnings could discourage residents from consuming a food central to Ojibwe lifeways.
Aerial imagery collected by a new generation of small, inexpensive satellites is ushering in an era of real-time monitoring. Large livestock farms could become a surveillance target.
They used to have a specific image of a “typical farmer:” white, male, heterosexual, Christian and conservative. Excluded from that vision — or perhaps myth — is a space for them.
So they are creating one.
Some residents wonder if the lobbying organizations are “fishing” for another case, the latest effort to prevent local governments from regulating farming in America’s Dairyland.
The loss of government-provided water would leave residents with stark choices: depart their homes, pay thousands of dollars for their own jugs or knowingly consume toxic chemicals.