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Clean Water
American Water: A Corporate Profile
Aqua America: A Corporate Profile (Issue Brief)
Aqua America: Strategies of a Water Profiteer
A Tomar del Grifo: El Gran Fraude Comercial del Agua Embotellada
Ban Fracking in Florida (Fact Sheet)
Big Ag, Big Oil and California’s Big Water Problem
Borrowing Trouble: Water Privatization Is a False Solution for Municipal Budget Shortfalls
Campus Campaigns to Ban Bottled Water (Fact Sheet)
Desalination: An Ocean of Problems (Report)
Desalination: An Ocean of Problems (Fact Sheet)
Detroit Needs a Water Affordability Plan (Issue Brief)
The Distribution System Improvement Charge: A Rip-Off For Consumers (Fact Sheet)
Eversource’s Plan To Privatize New Hartford’s Water
Five Reasons Baltimore Needs an Income-Based Water Affordability Program
Lead: A Lurking Threat in Drinking Water
Money Down the Drain: How Private Control of Water Wastes Public Resources
Niagara Bottling Company to Bottle and Sell Bloomfield, Connecticut’s Tap Water (Fact Sheet)
An Overview of the Successful Public Purchase of the Felton Water System
Private Equity, Public Inequity: The Public Cost of Private Equity Takeovers of U.S. Water Infrastructure (Fact Sheet)
Public-Private Partnerships: Issues and Difficulties with Private Water Service
The Public Works: How the Remunicipalization of Water Services Saves Money
The Relationship Between Water Shutoffs and COVID Infections and Deaths
State of Public Water in the United States
Take Back the Tap: The Big Business Hustle of Bottled Water (Fact Sheet)
Take Back the Tap The Big Business Hustle of Bottled Water (Report)
The Corporate Plan To Consolidate Your Utilities
The Top 10 Ways That Water Privatization Costs the Public
These Chemicals Are Forever: Water Contamination from PFOA, PFOS and other PFASs
Top Ten Most Expensive Water Providers in the Country: 2017 Update (Fact Sheet)
Top Ten: Why Water Privatization Fails
Trends in Water Privatization (Fact Sheet)
Trends in Water Privatization (Report)
United Water Can’t Be Trusted!
United Water: Suez Environment’s Poor Record in the United States
Water = Life: How Privatization Undermines the Human Right to Water
The Water Crisis in Martin County, Kentucky
Water and Sewer Privatization Contributes to Sprawl
Water for the Public, Not for Profit: Why Maine Should Hold Groundwater in the Public Trust
The Water Futures Market: Gambling With Our Water
Water Injustice: Economic and Racial Disparities in Access to Safe and Clean Water in the United States (Issue Brief)
Water In Peril: Climate Change To Exacerbate Water Woes
Water. Jobs. Justice. The Case For The WATER Act.
Water Privatization Threatens Workers, Consumers and Local Economies
Food System
Abusive Poultry Contracts Require Government Action (Fact Sheet)
Air Pollution From Oregon’s Large Dairies
Antibiotic Resistance 101: How Antibiotic Misuse on Factory Farms can Make you Sick
Below the Surface: The Dangers of Genetically Engineered Salmon
Biotech Ambassadors: How the U.S. State Department Promotes the Seed Industry’s Global Agenda
Broken Agricultural System Promotes Climate Change Feedback Loop
Can Lab Meat Fix Our Factory Farm Problem?
The Case for GMO Labeling (Fact Sheet)
Corporate Control in Animal Science Research
Costco’s New Poultry Farms Are a Bad Deal for Iowa
The DARK Act (Fact Sheet)
Dirty Delaware Project to Turn Poultry Slaughterhouse Waste into Pipeline Grade Methane
Do Farm Subsidies Cause Obesity?: Dispelling Common Myths About Public Health And The Farm Bill
The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: The Grocery Cartels
The EPA’s Failure to Track Factory Farms
Factory Farm Nation: 2020 Edition (Issue Brief)
Factory Farm Nation: 2020 Edition (Fact Sheet)
Factory Farm Pollution Threatens The Great Lakes
Factory Farms and Climate Change
Fair Farming: A New Deal Approach to Food Supply Management
Fair Farming Companion Fact Sheet
Fracking and the Food System (Issue Brief)
Federal Legislation for a Just Food System
From Superweeds to Cancer: Why It’s Time to Ban Monsanto’s Roundup Weed Killer
Genetically Engineered Food An Overview
Genetically Engineered Food: An Overview (2016 Edition)
Genetically Engineered Food: Human Health Risks (Fact Sheet)
Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes
Genetically Engineered Salmon: Deficient, Deformed, and Dangerous
to You and the Environment (Issue Brief)
Greenwashing Genetically Engineered Crops
Grocery Goliaths: How Food Monopolies Impact Consumers
Hard to Digest: Greenwashing Manure into Renewable Energy (Issue Brief)
How Factory Fish Farms Misuse Antibiotics (Issue Brief)
How GMO Crops Hurt Farmers (Fact Sheet)
How Much do Food Labels Tell You?
How Much Will Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods Really Cost? (Fact Sheet)
How the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Unravels U.S. Food Safety Protections (Fact Sheet)
Industry Profile: Grocery Manufacturers Association (Fact Sheet)
Monsanto’s Seed Company Subsidiaries (Fact Sheet)
Open Ocean Aquaculture: Factory Farming in the Sea
Organic Farmers Pay the Price for GMO Contamination
Poultry Litter Incineration: A False Solution to Factory Farm Pollution (Fact Sheet)
Poultry Litter Management Act (Fact Sheet)
Public Research, Private Gain: Corporate Influence Over University Agricultural Research
Save Antibiotics for Medicine, Not Factory Farms
The So-Called Scientific “Consensus”: Why the Debate on GMO Safety Is Not Over
Toxic Buffet: how the TPP Trades Away Seafood Safety
TPP: Big Giveaway for Agribusiness, Big Risk for Farmers (Fact Sheet)
The TPP Assault on Food Safety (Fact Sheet)
The TPP Pushes the GMO Industry’s Global Agenda (Fact Sheet)
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Delivers a Rising Tide of Imported Fish (Fact Sheet)
TTIP and Genetically Engineered Foods (Fact Sheet)
Under the Influence: The National Research Council and GMOs (Issue Brief)
The Urgent Case For A Ban On Factory Farms
The Urgent Case for A Factory Farm Moratorium in Iowa
The Urgent Case For A Factory Farm Moratorium In Maryland
The Urgent Case For A Moratorium On Mega-Dairies In New Mexico / Razones urgentes para una moratoria sobre las mega lecherías en Nuevo México
The Urgent Case For A Moratorium On Mega-Dairies In Oregon / Razones urgentes para una moratoria sobre las mega lecherías en Oregón
Well-Fed: A Roadmap To A Sustainable Food System That Works For All
Well-Fed Companion Fact Sheet
Why Antitrust Laws Matter for Agriculture and Food
Climate & Energy
Aera Energy’s Plans To Drill Santa Barbara Tar Sands
Another Petrochemical Sacrifice Zone: Appalachian Fracked Gas Industry Cluster Threatens Communities and Environment (Fact Sheet)
Bad Trade: International Forest Offsets and California’s Carbon Market
Biogas From Factory Farm Waste Has No Place in a Clean Energy Future
Biomass Cannot Be Part of a Renewable Energy Future in Los Angeles
Biomass Cannot Be Part of a U.S. Renewable Energy Future
The British Columbia Carbon Tax: A Failed Experiment in Market-Based Solutions to Climate Change
Building a Climate-Resilient Florida
Building Climate Justice: Investing in Energy Efficiency for a Fair and Just Transition
California Is A Climate Emergency: Newsom Must Act
California Leads: How To Break Fossil Fuel Dependence In The Golden State
California Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card: C
Cap And Trade Hurts Environmental Justice (Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative RGGI)
Cap And Trade: More Pollution For The Poor and People Of Color
Carbon Capture And Storage Has Four Fatal Flaws
Carbon Taxes: The Oil Industry’s Favorite Climate ‘Solution’
The Case Against Carbon Capture: False Claims And New Pollution
The Case to Ban Fracking on Federal Lands
Chemical Billionaire’s Bid for Fossil Fuel Empire
Chemical Recycling Of Plastics Won’t Close The Loop On The Climate Crisis
Cleanwashing: How States Count Polluting Energy Sources as Renewable
Climate Change and Unnatural Disasters
Colorado Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card: C-
Community Choice Aggregation: Cleaner, Cheaper Electricity
Cracked: The Case for Green Jobs Over Petrochemicals In Pennsylvania
Dangerously Deep: Fracking’s Threat to Human Health
Dirty And Dangerous: Stop Unnecessary Compressor Stations
Dirty Biogas Has No Place in Los Angeles’ or California’s Clean Energy Future
Dirty Biogas Has No Place in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
Dominion Energy’s Undue Political Influence Hurts Virginians and the Climate
Drilled Too Far: The Peril Of Injection Wells
Eminent Domain: Laws and Loopholes That Benefit Fracking and Pipeline Companies
The Environmental Perils of Steam Fracking Oxnard’s Tar Sands
Fracking and Earthquakes (Issue Brief)
Fighting Climate Chaos With a Green Public Works Program
Fighting Florida’s Climate Chaos: Next Steps in Saving Our State
Five Ways Dominion Puts Profits Ahead of Virginians
“Frackademia”: Industry Influence on Fracking Research and Academia
Fracking: A Bridge To Catastrophic Climate Change
The Fracking Endgame: Locked Into Plastics, Pollution and Climate Chaos
Fracking Interests Provide Flood of Funding to Florida Politicians
Fracking, Power Plants and Exports: Three Steps for Meaningful Climate Action
Fracking’s Bridge To Climate Chaos: Exposing The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deadly Spin
Fracking Wastewater: A Toxic and Radioactive Problem
Green Manufacturing Over Petrochemicals In Pennsylvania: More Jobs, Wiser Investment
How Fracking Supports the Plastic Industry
Hydrogen in Our Homes: A Dangerous Pipe Dream
Hydrogen: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Illinois Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card: D
Ineos’ Chequered Environmental Track Record in Europe
Investing in Energy Efficiency for a Fair and Just Transition
Los Angeles: Stop Investing in Fossil Fuels!
Maryland’s Dangerous Push for Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Meltdown: The Dangerous Nuclear Option For Climate Control
Natural Gas Liquids: Fracking’s Hazardous Plastics and Pollution Scheme
Natural Gas Liquids (Companion FS)
New Jersey Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card: D
New York Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card: D+
No Accounting for Taste: Natural Capital Accounting and the Financialization of Nature
Now We’re Fracked: Fracking’s Public Health Crisis
Nuclear Energy, Climate Change And Water: A Crisis
Nuclear Energy Isn’t The Solution To Climate Catastrophe
Ocean Acidification: How CO2 Emissions and False Solutions Threaten our Oceans
Oceans Awash in Toxic Plastic: Brought to You by the Fracking Industry
Off Course: Carbon Pricing Myths and Dirty Truths
Off Course Companion Fact Sheet
Paying to Pollute: The Environmental Injustice of Pollution Trading (Fact Sheet)
Paying to Pollute: The Environmental Injustice of Pollution Trading (Issue Brief)
Pennsylvania Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card: F
Pipelines 101: A Quick Reference Guide
Pollution Trading: Cashing Out Our Clean Air and Water
Renewable Natural Gas: Same Ol’ Climate Polluting Methane, Cleaner-Sounding Name
Saving Energy to Mitigate Climate Change
The Science Is In: We Can And Must Achieve 100 Percent Renewable Energy By 2030
Scrapping California’s Electric Grid System Is a Giveaway to Dirty Fossil Fuels
Six Reasons to Ban Fracking in Illinois
SoCalGas Plans to Expand Ventura Compressor Station / Spanish version
SoCalGas’ Rush to Greenwash Gas
The Social Costs of Fracking: A Pennsylvania Case Study
Stopping Climate Change in Maryland
Stopping Climate Change in New Jersey
Stopping Climate Change in New York
Stopping Climate Change in Virginia
Toxic Workplace: Fracking Hazards on the Job
The Trans-Atlantic Plastics Pipeline (Issue Brief)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Fast-Tracking Fracking
Triple Threat: Petrochemicals and Plastics, Power Plants, And Exports Drive A New Fracking Boom
Trouble Brewing in the Great Lakes
The URGENT Case for a Ban on Fracking
Why We Need Food & Water Action On Climate Change
Working on Climate: How Union Labor Can Power A Green Future
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