Fact Brief

Yes. Monsanto v. Durnell bars all sub-national entities, including North Dakota, from adding health warnings to pesticide labels different from the federal government’s. Missouri farmer John Durnell held he’d developed cancer after using Monsanto’s Round Up and sued the company for not disclosing the pesticide’s

No. The 2022 whale deaths have not been linked to offshore wind surveys or construction. Research has found no evidence of wind farms driving whale deaths, and responsibly developed wind farms avert systemic harms of fossil fuels. Bad practices like construction during peak migration, high-speed vessels, or not monitoring

This Fact Brief was written by Gabriel Vinocur of EconofactView on Econofact, our Gigafact partner. Yes. In fiscal year 2025, 18.5% of the federal government’s revenue went to paying interest on the national debt, a record since the start of the data series in 1940. The previous high

Yes. The U.S. Supreme Court vacated a lower court's decision regarding North Dakota’s legislative redistricting and sent the case back for further review rather than issuing a definitive ruling on broader Voting Rights Act questions. The case, brought by Native American tribes, argues that North Dakota&

Yes. United States federal debt held by the public reached 100.2 percent of GDP at the end of March 2026, an increase from around 35 percent of GDP in 2007. This is the highest level since just after World War II. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that, under

Yes. In 2017, North Dakota updated its administrative rules to raise the reporting threshold for certain oilfield spills. Under these rules, spills of crude oil, produced water (saltwater), or other liquids do not require a report to regulators if they stay contained on-site and total less than 10 barrels