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Greenpeace Plans to Sue JBS for Its Climate Impacts, Seeks Details About Major Plans in Nigeria

The advocacy group says the lawsuit could open a new legal frontier for pursuing industrial agriculture companies.

By Georgina Gustin

Workers strike at the JBS Beef Production Facility in Greeley, Colo., on March 16. Credit: Brice Tucker/MediaNews Group/Greeley Tribune via Getty Images
Steam rises from a JBS beef production facility as workers strike during the early morning hours on March 16 in Greeley, Colo. Credit: Brice Tucker/MediaNews Group/Greeley Tribune via Getty Images

Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem

By Georgina Gustin

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses new dietary guidelines during a news briefing at the White House on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Reversing Years of Dietary Advice, the Trump Administration Tells Consumers to Eat More Red Meat

By Georgina Gustin

Employees walk past the JBS plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. A new report lists the Brazilian meat giant as a top five greenhouse gas emitter. Credit: KC McGinnis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Climate-Warming Methane Emissions from the World’s Biggest Livestock Companies Are Bigger Than From Major Oil and Gas Companies

By Georgina Gustin

Cattle graze in a pasture using regenerative agriculture techniques at CS Ranch in Cimarron, N.M. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Regenerative Agriculture Is All Over the Agenda at Climate Week NYC. But What Does It Mean?

By Georgina Gustin

N.C. Wildlife Resources Commissions officials had to rescue dozens of Southern Appalachian Brook Trout from a mountain stream after a cattle farmer allowed as much as 2 feet of sediment to enter the waterway. Credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

North Carolina Cattle Farmer to Pay $92,000 for Damaging Mountain Streams

By Lisa Sorg

The JBS meat processing plant in Plainwell, Mich. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

The World’s Biggest Meat Company Gets the Greenlight to Go Public on the New York Stock Exchange

By Georgina Gustin

A herd of beef cattle stands in a feedlot in Quemado, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago

By Georgina Gustin

Olzhas Shayakhmetov (left), KazBeef's chief marketing officer, and Makhsat Kuralbekovich, who runs a KazBeef feedlot, discuss operations inside the company's offices.

Behind the Scenes: How a Burgeoning Industry in Kazakhstan Is Trying to Kickstart ‘Climate-Smart Beef’

By Kiley Price

A young cow grazes near a stack of hay at KazBeef's cow-calf operation near the village of Mamay, Kazakhstan.

Turning Kazakhstan Into a Beef-Producing Machine, the American Way

Story and photos by Georgina Gustin

The Environmental Working Group lawsuit accuses Tyson of deceiving consumers by failing to provide a realistic plan to reduce its emissions or even measure them. Credit: Richard Hamilton Smith /Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Tyson Foods Sued Over Emissions Reduction Promises

By Georgina Gustin

The Environmental Working Group published a new analysis on Wednesday outlining its efforts to push the USDA for more transparency, including asking for specific rationale in allowing brands to label beef as “climate friendly.” Credit: Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Department of Agriculture Rubber-Stamped Tyson’s “Climate Friendly” Beef, but No One Has Seen the Data Behind the Company’s Claim

By Georgina Gustin

Rancher Jaim Teixeira surveys the landscape at the edge of his property, near Trairão in the Brazilian state of Pará. Teixeira lit the forest on fire to clear it so he can graze his cattle, though burning primary rainforest in the Amazon is illegal. Credit: Larry Price

The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault

By Georgina Gustin

Cattle eating hay in cattle feedlot in Utah. Credit:Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Air Pollution From Raising Livestock Accounts for Most of the 16,000 US Deaths Each Year Tied to Food Production, Study Finds

By Georgina Gustin

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