Food & Water Watch

It's time that the FDA face the facts. The science simply isn't there to support approval of GE salmon.

Allowing the industry to build out its sprawling pipeline infrastructure and to lock-in decades more of U.S. dependence on natural gas would be a colossal mistake.

The potential for widespread hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” threatens New York’s abundance of farmers markets, community-supported agriculture, and locally grown produce and food products. 

AquaBounty has clearly not demonstrated that GE salmon is safe for consumers or the environment or the fishing industry.

As with cap-and-trade, cap-and-dividend sets up a pay-to-pollute scheme whereby industry can simply purchase the right to degrade your land, air and waterways.

Since the Obama Administration made its announcement last December, Food & Water Watch hasexpressed extreme reservations about the wisdom to the elimination of the border inspection program at USDA.

The last 20 years of environmental protection have seen a steady shift away from many of the tried-and-true regulatory control approaches that force industries to implement increasingly more protective pollution abatement measures. 

Policymakers should seek an alternative to GDP not by replacing it with another aggregator, but by replacing it with a pool of measurements that, taken together, can inform policy decisions and better reflect our social values.

It’s time to ask the question: Is it appropriate to advertise unhealthy foods to children and adolescents?

Loose talk about domestic oil and natural gas abundance in order to justify and promote widespread drilling and fracking gives Americans a false sense of energy security.