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LINCOLN, Neb. — A new state program, approved in 2022 to help reduce nitrate pollution in drinking water, is struggling to get started, more than a year after it became

Spending six figures could be a new norm for running for the Nebraska Legislature. At least one candidate in 19 of the 25 races for the Nebraska Legislature in 2022

High levels of nitrate in water have been linked to pediatric cancers. And Nebraska has the highest pediatric cancer rate of any state west of Pennsylvania, according to the CDC.

Experts offer different ideas on how Nebraska can solve its nitrate issues.

Experts say, generations of corn growing, feedlot runoff and oft-unwitting nitrogen overuse has left a sobering legacy buried in the Nebraska soil.

There are few staff to monitor Nebraska’s vast swaths of farmland, thousands of cattle feedlots, large hog operations and chicken farms. And the agencies’ own regulations don’t give the staff many tools to combat malpractice.

Local NRDs and state regulators have few staff to monitor Nebraska’s vast swaths of farmland and thousands of feeding operations.

The Nebraska Legislature has a large number of hotly contested campaigns this fall, with several candidates raising more than $100,000.

Republicans appear to have gained a supermajority in the Nebraska Legislature, enough to overcome a filibuster.

LINCOLN — It appears that if vote totals hold in a couple of close races, Republicans captured a filibuster-proof majority in the officially nonpartisan Nebraska Legislature in Tuesday’s election. Unofficial