Major food companies haven't officially agreed to ditch artificial dyes despite Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s push to ban them, though several of the nation's largest companies signaled they're committed to a conversation about it.
Why it matters: President Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration is working with industry to eliminate synthetic dyes from the American food supply over the next two years.
A rapidly growing wildfire in the Pine Barrens area of southern New Jersey prompted evacuation orders for about 3,000 people and shut down parts of a major highway in the state for hours on Tuesday.
The big picture: The Jones Road Forest Fire was burning across some 8,500 acres at 10% containment just before 11pm ET, some nine hours after the New Jersey Forest Fire Service announced its ignition in dry, windy conditions near Barnegat Township in Ocean County.
Photojournalism is essential to our understanding of major natural disasters and the effects of climate change — but that's a lot of responsibility for any one frame to bear, Getty Images photographer Mario Tama tells Axios.
The big picture: "In general, it's important to document both the environmental landscape and the human/wildlife toll and to show viewers as complete a picture as possible," Tama says.
