Food & Water Watch

Felton has benefited from local, public control of its water services. 

While communities across the United States fight against the negative effects of expanded fracking for natural gas, the White House is negotiating a secret trade deal with 12 Pacific Rim countries that could undermine those efforts.

To the public, fracking represents all that the specific process of hydraulic fracturing entails: marred landscapes and fragmented forests; roads crowded with heavy-duty trucks carrying water; chemicals and toxic waste; earthquakes related to disposal of this waste, and a legacy of air pollution, water pollution, climate pollution and public health problems. 

This study is the first detailed, long-term analysis of the social costs of fracking borne by rural Pennsylvania communities.

Pollution from large industrial chicken farming in Maryland has been entering the Chesapeake Bay, unchecked, for far too long -- its time for that to stop.

The World Food Prize dotes on promoters of increased food production, like Monsanto, but it ignores the fact that hunger has little to do with food scarcity.

Although the TPP is being sold as just another free trade agreement, only five of its 29 chapters are directly related to trade.

Does organic food need its own checkoff program? That’s a debate that’s raging right now in the organic community.

How Factory Farming Drives Antibiotic Resistance

There are many problems with EPA’s regulation of industrial livestock facilities, and lack of information stands in the way of addressing pollution from this industry