Spoiler: it involves lobbyists.

In March of 2017, then-E.P.A. chief Scott Pruitt rejected a recommendation from his own agency to ban the use of chlorpyrifos—a widely-used pesticide that was shown to have “significant health consequences.”

This strange move inspired New York Times reporters Eric Lipton and Danny Hakim to issue a Freedom of Information Act request to the E.P.A.—the result of which was released over the weekend as a deep dive into how the Trump administration is siding with the pesticide companies to reject the troubling findings of a whole genre of health studies.

This is dense reporting—especially in light of how much constant crap we’re expected to keep up with these days. And the potentially dangerous impact will be slow-burning and difficult to trace. But it represents a regression in the way our government incorporates the science designed to keep us safe and, as Lipton pointed out on Twitter, “If you eat, you should care.”