Food & Water Watch

The hasty deployment of new, untested technologies is a tried-and-true mistake, particularly when used to address environmental and public health crises.

The poultry industry continues to influence lawmakers to prioritize corporate interests over public health, sound food policy and environmental concerns. Citizens in Maryland should no longer have to bail the industry out of its massive waste problem by financing poultry waste disposal. 

The two largest beer companies in the world are preparing to merge into one. After the merger, more than two-thirds of all U.S. beer would still be sold by two firms that also control much of the supply chain, further limiting consumer choice. 

The TPP is a 12-nation trade deal that is being negotiated behind closed doors and that includes some of the world’s biggest fish and seafood exporters. 

Water quality trading, also known as water pollution trading, undermines the Clean Water Act and should be illegal.

Allowing 1.5°C of warming is too dangerous, and we can avoid it by acting fast with strong government policies, backed by the political will to see them through.

Fracking is incompatible with stopping global warming at 1.5°C. It creates far more emissions of carbon dioxide and methane than we can afford.

Dramatic action is needed to deal with ecological and human water crises.

After peer-reviewers panned the Obama EPA for its draft assessment on fracking, will the administration come clean on where the science ended and the politics began?

New details show that water pollution trading, instead of reducing pollution, acts as a pay-to-pollute scheme that undermines the Clean Water Act and endangers our fresh water.