How AI Data Centers Bypass Water and Air Pollution Laws and Permits

Written by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

In the race to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI), companies are constructing massive data centers that could have devastating consequences for the environment — all while sidestepping water pollution permits and exploiting air pollution permitting loopholes, according to separate investigations by Politico and Floodlight News

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Dodgy Science Backs Folic Acid Supplement in Pregnancy

Written by Dr Clare Craig

On 10 July 2026 Esther McVey asked the UK Department of Health and Social Care what assessment it had made of a 1997 Lancet paper by Ernest Hook and Andrew Czeizel.

They tried to highlight the troubling possibility that the claimed reduction in babies born with neural tube defects could be accounted for by killing the affected embryos.

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