Legal Petition to EPA Calls for Monitoring of Microplastics in …
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 ...
Factory Farms Are Ruining Rural America’s Economy
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 But America’s rural landscape has become unrecognizable, as many family-scale farms have been replaced by factory operations.
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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.
Protections Against PFAS Are Under Threat. Congress Must Act.
Oct 23, 2024 · The Supreme Court Opens the Floodgates for Legal Challenges to PFAS Regulations. This past summer, the Supreme Court released decisions that threaten to turn our regulatory system upside down. Notably, it overturned the long-held Chevron doctrine, which held that courts should defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous laws. For decades, Chevron informed how federal agencies ...
The Path Ahead: How We Prepare for 2025 - foodandwaterwatch.org
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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.
3 Policy Changes We Need to Fight Factory Farms
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.
FOODANDWATERWATCH.ORG 3 In Hot Water: Iowa’s Animal Agriculture Has a Spill Problem Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits.9 In fact, Iowa has refused to issue a single permit and prohibits issuing permits more stringent than federal law.10 Spills from unpermitted facilities are unlikely to be reported because such facilities …
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 ...