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If you��re wondering about all those labels on meat and poultry at the grocery store, so too, it turns out, is the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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The agency, in an update to its industry guidelines published this week, signaled that it��s paying closer attention to how companies back up the new environmental buzzwords and said it ��strongly encourages�� meat and poultry purveyors to get those claims verified by independent third parties.

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Food companies have long had to get USDA approval for their labels. That has applied to terms such as ��cage free�� eggs or ��grass fed�� beef. The last update to the guidelines was in 2019.

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In this week��s update to the guidance, the USDA took note of some of the latest environment-related marketing claims, such as ��climate-friendly.�� It said it ��strongly encouraged�� meat producers to provide the USDA��s food-safety arm with ��data or studies to support environment-related claims on their label.��

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The agency said third-party verification ��helps ensure that such claims are truthful and not misleading,�� although advocacy groups point out that these verification services are themselves of varying quality.

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The agency��s guidance follows growing concern by environmental advocates and consumer protection groups about what��s often called greenwashing, or the practice of making misleading claims about a product��s environmental impact. And it reflects growing scrutiny by courts and regulators around the world on the labeling of products aimed at consumers concerned about the environment.

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For instance, earlier this year, a national court in Denmark told Danish Crown, the country��s biggest pork producer, that it was misleading to label its pork ��climate-controlled.�� The company discontinued that phrase along with another climate claim.

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In New York, state Attorney General Letitia James has sued JBS, the meat multinational, for making ��sweeping representations�� about neutralizing its emissions in the coming years but offering ��no viable plan.�� JBS asked the court to dismiss the case.

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The marketing claims reflect how brands are trying to meet consumer demands. In the United States, sales of consumer products that are labeled green or sustainable are growing twice as fast as those that are not, according to research from New York University��s Stern School of Business.

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On a 35�XC day this summer, New York City��s Third Avenue Bridge, connecting the Bronx and Manhattan, got stuck in the open position for hours. As heat and flooding scorched and scoured the Midwest, a steel railroad bridge connecting Iowa with South Dakota collapsed under surging waters. In Lewiston, Maine, a bridge closed after the pavement buckled from fluctuating temperatures.

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America��s bridges, a quarter of which were built before 1960, were already in need of repair. But now, extreme heat and increased flooding linked to climate change are accelerating the disintegration of the nation��s bridges, engineers say, essentially causing them to age prematurely.

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The result is a quiet but growing threat to the safe movement of people and goods around the country, and another example of how climate change is reshaping daily life in ways Americans may not realize.

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��We have a bridge crisis that is specifically tied to extreme weather events,�� said Paul Chinowsky, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder who researches the effects of climate change on infrastructure. ��These are not things that would happen under normal climate circumstances. These are not things that we��ve ever seen at this rate.��

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Bridges designed and built decades ago with materials not intended to withstand sharp temperature swings are now rapidly swelling and contracting, leaving them weakened.

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��It��s getting so hot that the pieces that hold the concrete and steel, those bridges can literally fall apart like Tinkertoys,�� Chinowsky said.

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As temperatures reached the highest in recorded history this year, much of the nation��s infrastructure, from highways to runways, has suffered. But bridges face particular risks.

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A study in the journal PLOS ONE found that extreme temperatures resulting from climate change could cause 1 in 4 steel bridges in the United States to collapse by 2050. By 2040, failures caused by extreme heat could require widespread bridge repairs and closures, researchers found.

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Studies show that climate change has caused more rapid shifts between extreme heat and cold, said Royce Floyd, a professor of engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Those seesawing temperatures can cause pavement to squeeze from both sides onto a span, forcing the road and steel to buckle or crack, or even pushing steel beams out of alignment, Floyd found.

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