Former EPA officials: Trump is letting data centers make people sick

While tech oligarchs grandstand about the existential danger AI superintelligence poses to humanity, former Environmental Protection Agency officials say we should be worried about a more immediate threat to our health: the data centers that power those AI models.  The former EPA researchers, now working with the nonprofit Environmental Protection...

Has the farm bill hit a dead end?

Last Tuesday, Senator Mitch McConnell returned to Congress after a three-month absence and promptly cast a deciding vote in the Republican-led agricultural committee. Back in August, Democrats on the committee blocked the Senate’s version of the farm bill from progressing to a full vote.  But even after McConnell’s vote, the...