Food & Water Watch

Drilling and fracking a single shale well can produce millions of gallons of toxic wastewater and hundreds of tons of potentially radioactive solid waste. Disposal of these wastes poses serious environmental and public health risks. 

Voluntary efforts to stop subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock seem unlikely given a growing body of evidence suggets producers aren't even following legal bans. 

For the past 25 years, emissions trading, known more recently as “cap-and-trade,” has been promot­ed as the best strategy for solving pollution prob­lems. It's not.

Hundreds of North Carolinians attended the recent public hearings on the draft study to state their opposition to fracking in their communities.

Walmart's sustainability campaign has done wonders for its public image, but little for the environment. 

In this report, Food & Water Watch reviews the risks and costs of shale development that have been demonstrated in the United States, including economic costs that run counter to industry-backed claims about the economic benefits of the practice.

Rockland County cannot trust United Water to act in the public’s interest.

The all-out nano-silver assault on benign bacteria is part of a trend of anti-microbial use doing more to cause public health problems, such as new strains of resistant bacterias, than prevent them.

A public-public partnership is simply a collaboration between two or more public entities to improve public services on a not-for-profit basis. 

In contrast to privatization, which puts public needs into the hands of profit-seeking corporations, public-public partnerships bring together public officials, workers and communities to provide better service for all users more efficiently.