New Map Paints Comprehensive Picture Of Factory Farm …
Sep 24, 2024 · A new interactive map, released today by the national environmental group Food & Water Watch, paints a comprehensive picture of factory farm domination in America.The resource, based on the latest USDA Census of Agriculture, includes new density rankings that reveal the extreme concentration of factory farms — and their waste — in communities across the country, endangering clean water and ...
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10 Years After Crisis, Flint Is Still Fighting for Clean Water
Apr 25, 2024 · Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the day when the City of Flint switched its water source to the Flint River, sparking a lead-in-water crisis that would poison residents for years to come.. In 2014, Flint, Michigan was governed by a State-imposed emergency manager, effectively suspending local democracy, including over the water system.
Price Gouging and Other Dirty Tricks Behind the Kroger …
Sep 30, 2024 · Just weeks after Vice President Kamala Harris promised to tackle price gouging, a Kroger executive admitted in court that the company had done just that.The Senior Director of Pricing at Kroger testified in a federal lawsuit that the company raised prices for some products higher than inflation.. The testimony was part of a hearing in the suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC ...
The Top 5 Threats to Our Safe Drinking Water
Dec 16, 2024 · One of the most significant environmental laws of the 20th century is the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), which passed 50 years ago today.This law, for the first time, established a national framework that seeks to ensure the safety of our public drinking water.
East Palestine, One Year After Chemical Disaster - Food & Water …
Mar 1, 2024 · The brilliant blue sky served as a sharp contrast to the cold temperatures and intermittent snow of the previous year — the backdrop to the towering plume of smoke and vapor created by a controlled burn of a tanker car’s worth of toxic vinyl chloride.The burn spread contamination for miles around the derailment site.
Alarming Lead, Arsenic Levels Found in Popular Vinegar Brands
May 24, 2021 · Learn. Research We publish hard-hitting evidence to stop polluting industries; News & Opinions Read the latest news and opinions from Food & Water Watch; Press Center We’re in the headlines fighting polluters — see the latest news; Featured Legal We fight in the courts to stop polluters and make the government do its job
NY Assembly Passes Climate Change Superfund Act
Jun 8, 2024 · Albany, NY — Late last night, after a swell of grassroots pressure, the New York State Assembly passed the Climate Change Superfund Act by a vote of 95-46, to make fossil fuel polluters pay for costs associated with climate change, including climate resiliency projects.
EPA Proposes to Exempt Most Slaughterhouses from Updated …
Jan 22, 2024 · Washington, D.C. – The federal government tomorrow is scheduled to publish proposed EPA rules that would require pollution reductions from fewer than half of the 3,879 slaughterhouses and meat processing plants that discharge waste to U.S. rivers, lakes, and streams.. The regulations would cut pollution significantly from the largest plants that pipe their waste directly into waterways, but ...
North Dakota Approves Dangerous Summit Carbon Pipeline
Nov 15, 2024 · In response to the decision, Food & Water Watch Policy Director Jim Walsh issued the following statement: “Summit’s massive carbon pipeline scam is nothing but a gift to Big Ag and the polluting ethanol industry. The pipeline poses substantial risks to public safety, and will do little to nothing to reduce climate pollution.