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The chemical and consumer products sectors are sending lawyers and lobbyists to DC to protect their investments.

They remain in limbo as USDA demands grant rewrites favoring fossil fuels over renewables.

After being recruited by the world's largest meatpacker, they faced grueling conditions on the line. Is the worst yet to come?

"These were highly trained individuals--inspectors, entomologists, taxonomists."