Food & Water Watch

Investigative reporter Kimberly Kindy unmasked a potential scam in the USDA's salmonella testing problem that allows inaccurate results, endangering consumers. 

The bottled water industry has generated demand for its product through marketing, persuading Americans that bottled water is purer and healthier than tap water, even though the U.S. federal government requires more rigorous safety monitoring of municipal tap water than it does of bottled water.

The rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — a process that the oil and gas industry uses to extract natural gas and oil from shale rock formations buried deep within the Earth — has caused environmental and public health problems, and weak eminent domain laws and laws that cater to fracking and pipeline companies will only help spread these problems.

A closer look at the largest private operator of municipal water and swerer systems in the U.S.

If the governor were truly intent on determining fracking’s impacts before making any decisions, why has his administration been making big moves to ensure fracking’s approval by fall 2014?

The U.S. government is aggressively negotiating two large “free trade” deals with a dozen Pacific Rim countries and the European Union.

United Water is one of the United States' largest private water giants.

Nearly 20 years after their introduction, genetically engineered crops have not provided the benefits promised by the companies that patented them.

"It would be prudent to determine if the findings of this study are applicable to humans." 

In recent years, a push has been made to transform environmental protection around the world from regulatory regimes to cap-and-trade schemes.