Candidates running for federal office have grown increasingly reliant on out-of-state donations.

The EPA estimates that most benzene pollution from refineries comes in the form of “fugitive emissions.”

Secretary of State Jena Griswold has declined to take a position on the matter before courts weigh in.

An advisory panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is scheduled to vote on recommendations Tuesday.

More than 260 Coloradans will receive part of $35 million in financial relief.

(The Center Square) - Ohio-based Kroger agreed in principle to settle lawsuits that by paying $1.37 billion to state and local governments for its role in fueling the opioid epidemic.

Kroger owns Fred Meyer and QFC stores, which have dispensed opioids nationwide.

“Opioid manufacturers, distributors, dispensers, and consultants all had a hand in creating the opioid crisis, and they have a responsibility to pay for the devastating results of their reckless behavior, ” Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, who led the negotiations, said in a press release.

The Arizona Senate is inching closer to a lawsuit with the federal government.

Ezekiel 33:7–9

“So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. ⁸If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. ⁹But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.”

Agriculture news and information from the Eads USDA Service Center in Kiowa County, Colorado.

Life in Eads and Kiowa County, Colorado, as observed by Doris Lessenden.