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Sep 25, 2024 · In a first-of-its-kind decision, a federal court in California ruled yesterday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must strengthen regulation of fluoride in drinking water across the country. The court found that scientific evidence of fluoride’s health risks when ingested at levels currently prescribed for drinking water – …

Nov 25, 2024 · Research indicates that microplastics are widespread and pervasive in our environment – in the air, in water, in much of our food and in our bodies – and they pose significant risks to human health.Drinking water is one of the primary sources of human ingestion of microplastics worldwide. “The science is clear and alarming: Microplastics are everywhere in our world and in all of our ...

Oct 2, 2024 · The operators of the nation’s first underground carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility announced today that they have paused injections of carbon dioxide in the well due to likely leakage deep underground. This comes on the heels of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launching an enforcement action against the facility after another leak was discovered earlier this year […]

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.

Dec 19, 2024 · Today, environmental justice and environmental groups sued Governor Newsom’s California Air Resources Board (CARB) over its failure to adequately address the health and environmental impacts of its recently approved amendments to one of California’s flagship climate programs – the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).. The LCFS incentivizes pollution in communities across the nation already ...

Oct 9, 2024 · Editor’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared on the website of Food & Water Action (our affiliated organization) at an earlier date. Just a few decades ago, it was common for smaller, family-scale farms to raise a variety of crops and animals. But America’s rural landscape has become unrecognizable, as many family-scale farms have been replaced by factory operations.

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 ...

Sep 21, 2024 · Fig 2. Up until the late 20th century, most hogs were raised on smaller, diversified operations. But significant changes in U.S. farm policy and growing corporate power transformed the way we grow crops and raise livestock, leading to an onslaught of factory hog operations across rural America 1 See Food & Water Watch (FWW). “The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: The Hog Bosses.”

Nov 22, 2024 · 2. We Need Regulations to Rein in Factory Farm Pollution “CAFOs have helped empty out the countryside. I mean, nobody’s going to build their house next door to a CAFO,” says Barb Kalbach, now a member of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI). She first got involved in the fight against factory farms when someone tried to build one near her home.