Food safety and related illnesses are hot topics for midterm debates - Entrepreneur Generations

Debates leading up to midterms can be messy, and this year, those debates are becoming a food fight — about grocery prices, which is a more ...

Even before Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion care lagged behind in rural communities - Entrepreneur Generations

Filmmaker Emma Dessau grew up in urban New Jersey with access to sex education and Planned Parenthood, and an understanding that Roe v. Wade...

Newly proposed EPA rule would exempt offshore fishing vessels from pollution requirements - Entrepreneur Generations

A proposed rule from the Environmental Protection Agency would exempt certain offshore seafood processing vessels from the Clean Water Act’s...

Florida's orange growers hope disease-resistant trees will revitalize the decimated industry - Entrepreneur Generations

Flordia's orange growers are buying DNA-altered trees and inoculating their existing groves to ward off the devastating and incurable ...

Rural communities can learn how to push back on data center construction from resistance to factory farms - Entrepreneur Generations

The fight about construction of data centers continues across the country, and communities pushing back on such construction could have a l...

Measles deaths continue to climb, and rural areas are not immune; cases in rural Pennsylvania are an example - Entrepreneur Generations

This year is the deadliest yet from measles since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000. In Pennsylvania, four people have died from mea...

Trump shifts funds from National Parks to projects in Washington - Entrepreneur Generations

Funding U.S. National Parks Service projects has not been a priority for the Trump Administration, which has siphoned money from the USNPS f...

The Congressional Black Caucus Institute launches initiative to engage rural Black voters for midterms - Entrepreneur Generations

Black federal lawmakers launched a multimillion-dollar effort called “SO VOTE” to register and mobilize low-propensity young voters from maj...

CDC declares cyclospora outbreak over - Entrepreneur Generations

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared the cyclospora outbreak over as of Friday, Sept. 11, with a majority of cases linked...

What began as a newspaper editor's joke, became an international tourism draw for an 800-person Nevada town - Entrepreneur Generations

Virginia City, Nevada, population 800, boasts a rich history of silver and gold mining that drew thousands to the town in the 1800s. But tod...

Chronic illness rates in rural Texas linked to food insecurity - Entrepreneur Generations

A lack of transportation, educational resources and fresh food contributes to rural Texas' increasing number of food deserts, which alre...

USDA staff cuts leave farmers unable to obtain loans and grants - Entrepreneur Generations

Navajo farming couple, Mary and Zachariah Ben, sought a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for their dream property last fall in ...

Trump deems Digital Equity Act illegal on basis of racially designated grants; new applications will be required - Entrepreneur Generations

“Rural residents live sicker and die younger on average than people in the rest of the country when they live in counties lacking high-speed...

Farmers enter conservation easements to protect their land for the future - Entrepreneur Generations

John Boyer repurchased 131 acres of his childhood farm in rural East Jordan, Michigan, and entered it into a conservation easement with the ...

Proposed EPA rule would not require public input before construction of new pollution-causing facilities, most of which are in rural places - Entrepreneur Generations

A newly proposed federal Environmental Protection Agency plan would eliminate the requirement that states seek public comment before issuing...

Walmart to pay $50 million for its role in bolstering the opioid crisis - Entrepreneur Generations

The Justice Department announced this week that Walmart must pay $50 million to resolve claims “that its pharmacies filled hundreds of thous...

United Houma Nation credits 'good journalism' as reason for $56.5 million federal grant award - Entrepreneur Generations

The United Houma Nation in South Louisiana is crediting "good journalism" for a newly awarded $56.5 million grant it received from...

New federal rule would increase water cuts in the Colorado River Basin; Native American tribes say they weren't consulted - Entrepreneur Generations

Colorado River Indian Tribes say the U.S. Department of the Interior did not provide them with enough notice or allow them sufficient input ...

California farmers are 'returning lettuce to the soil,' laying off workers as fears about cyclosporiasis continue - Entrepreneur Generations

Workers are being laid off, assembly lines have stopped and huge amounts of lettuce and cabbage are being returned to the soil at farms acro...

One reporter's journey through the American West puts her on the frontlines of climate change - Entrepreneur Generations

Climate change is altering the great American landscape, with rural places often on the frontlines of disasters that are becoming more and m...