Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Dems’ Climate Crisis Committee Fails to Treat Climate as a Crisis Today, the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis released its long-awaited plan for responding to climate change. It recommends a goal of achieving ‘net zero’ electricity by 2040, and overall ‘net zero’ emissions a decade later. Food & Water Action Policy Director Mitch Jones released... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, June 25, 2020 Environmental Groups File Legal Action Against EPA and Army Corps for Unlawful Interpretation of Clean Water Act The Environmental Integrity Project, representing four other environmental groups, today filed a complaint asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to vacate EPA’s rewritten “Waters of the U.S.” rule – known as the Navigable Waters Protection rule – because it is “arbitrary,... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, June 19, 2020 Actor and Activist Mark Ruffalo Endorses Mondaire Jones for Congress Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo has endorsed Mondaire Jones ahead of next week’s primary election for New York’s 17th Congressional District. Ruffalo’s endorsement was shared by Food & Water Action, the national advocacy organization, which has been working in support of Jones. The announcement... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, June 09, 2020 Exposed: 3,000% Increase in Aliso Canyon Use Under Gov. Newsom - Despite His Promises for “Expedited” Shut Down Food & Water Action has analysed data compiled over the last four years and found that the use of the infamous SoCalGas Aliso Canyon gas storage facility - home to the largest gas blowout in U.S. history - has increased by about 3,000% under Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration. This comes... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, June 08, 2020 Group Warns USDA May Be Quietly Trying to Outsource Chicken Processing to China Food & Water Action warns that an email sent by the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service on June 3, 2020, could point to a plan to outsource chicken processing to the People’s Republic of China as a means to circumvent U.S. inspection standards. "The email, sent at 9:... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, June 04, 2020 Court Rejects Meatpacker’s Efforts to Kill Lawsuit Over Slaughterhouse Pollution in South Platte River A federal district court in Colorado has blocked efforts by the JBS-Swift Beef Company to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Food & Water Watch to stop illegal discharges of slaughterhouse pollution into Colorado’s South Platte River. The court’s ruling, which... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, June 04, 2020 Trump Executive Order Ignoring Core Environmental Laws is Egregious Authoritarian Act Reports indicate that President Trump will sign an executive order today that will allow federal agencies to bypass core environmental laws – including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) – to approve large-scale infrastructure projects, including fossil fuel mining and pipelines, in... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, June 03, 2020 State Study Confirms It: Fracking Hurts Babies A new study by the California Air Resources Board found that pregnant people who lived within 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) of active oil and gas wells in the state were 40% more likely to have babies with low birth weight than those not near active wells. While these discrepancies were more prevalent... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, June 02, 2020 Attack on States’ Rights to Reject Fossil Fuel Projects is a Classic, Desperate Trump Temper Tantrum Yesterday the Environmental Protection Agency finalized new procedures that will, if upheld by the courts, significantly curtail the ability of states to reject proposed fossil fuel infrastructure projects under provisions of the Clean Water Act. These water quality provisions have been utilized... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, May 26, 2020 USDA Spent Memorial Day Weekend Distorting Meat Production Today, Food & Water Action released an analysis of recent data and USDA reports that proves industry warnings of impending meat shortages to be false, and worker condemnation of meat processing deregulation during the current pandemic, to be true. Among the findings is proof that USDA is... Read more |