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 – …

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 ...

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.

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Oct 22, 2024 · More than 150 advocacy groups signed a letter sent to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan today, calling on the agency to halt the injection of carbon dioxide into existing underground well sites and reject approval of new injection wells. The letter comes on the heels of multiple leaks discovered at the country’s first commercial underground carbon capture […]

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.”

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.

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.

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 ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Right now, millions of families across the country drink water delivered by toxic lead pipes. Lead-in-water crises like that in Flint, MI continue to sicken families years after they were uncovered. A rule was finalized last year to finally address this, but Republican lawmakers are working fast to roll it back and keep millions of lead pipes in the ground.