Yanqi Xu

4 days ago | journalstar.com | Yanqi Xu

Near his  family farm near Nebraska City, Daryl Steinman discovered old bottles and jars in piles of charred debris, remnants left by homesteaders and farm families who had burned their trash before Steinman’s family bought the farm 65 years ago, he thought. They sparked a realization. “If you don't take care of the environment, just throwing stuff away into the ground, it's always gonna be there,” Steinman said.

4 days ago | nptelegraph.com | Yanqi Xu

Near his family farm near Nebraska City, Daryl Steinman discovered old bottles and jars in piles of charred debris, remnants left by homesteaders and farm families who had burned their trash before Steinman’s family bought the farm 65 years ago, he thought. They sparked a realization. “If you don't take care of the environment, just throwing stuff away into the ground, it's always gonna be there,” Steinman said.

5 days ago | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Yanqi Xu

Glass recycling in small towns has ebbed and flowed as food production, manufacturing and waste management all globalized — and consolidated. Steinman’s own father once worked as a milkman, taking glass to the customers’ doorsteps, collecting empty bottles and then bringing them back to the distributor. But that distributor is long gone, and now much of the glass on local store shelves comes from overseas. Storing all this trash isn’t cheap.

1 week ago | flatwaterfreepress.org | Yanqi Xu

Roaming around his family farm near Nebraska City, Daryl Steinman discovered old bottles and jars in piles of charred debris. Brown, green, clear, some embossed with makers’ marks harkening back to before he was born in 1965. He occasionally spotted blobs of melted glass, remnants left by homesteaders and farm families who had burned their trash before Steinman’s family bought the farm 65 years ago, he thought. They sparked a realization.

1 month ago | pawneerepublican.com | Yanqi Xu

Subhead Emails reveal Nebraska leaders cast doubt on nitrate research; former employee says state regulator always on ‘back foot’ In 2022, University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers published a study showing a correlation between rural areas with high levels of nitrate in water and high rates of childhood cancer.That study drew suspicion from an interesting source: the state’s top drinking water administrator, Sue Dempsey.In an email to colleagues at the Nebraska Department of...