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31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was enacted a year ago this week, as my colleagues Shelley Poticha and Valerie Baron wrote about yesterday. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Every 5 years, when it passes a new Farm Bill, Congress has a chance to protect our climate, enhance biodiversity, and build healthier and more resilient communities by investing in solutions and shifting toward policies that can work better. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Speaking truth to power, that’s what Elsie Herring does every day. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
How do you promote a “sweet potato brand” and hide information about millions and millions of gallons of feces from the general public all at once? [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
This week, the North Carolina legislature is sending a budget to the Governor for approval or veto. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
According to NRDC’s new report Washington DC just distinguished itself—we are in the top 10 most lead-pipes-per-100,000 people of any state (or District) in the US. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Pause, and look out your window—look up, down, and all around our streets, buildings, homes, cars, busses, the wires that carry our electricity, pipes that move our water and often fuel and ask: what would it mean if this was all built with justice in mind? [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Only about four miles north of the Capitol, my neighborhood in Washington DC is riddled with lead pipes, and like lead pipes throughout the country, the ones in Washington DC mae drinking water unsafe. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
We have learned from the ongoing lead in water crises in Flint, Michigan; Newark, New Jersey; and [read post]
17 Sep 2024, 10:46 am
If EPA doesn't finalize its new, lead-in-water rule by October 16, 2024, it risks plunging the sector into confusion and diminishing health protections. [read post]
12 Mar 2024, 9:04 am
The most common lead pipe replacement programs do not create taxable income for homeowners, which is good news if you don't like drinking through a lead straw. [read post]
30 May 2024, 6:55 am
As of 2024 states and utilities report that there are more than nine million U.S. households drinking their water through lead pipes. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
A year ago President Biden signed the blockbuster 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure law, and it’s clear that this time we ha [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
On April 28, Workers’ Memorial Day, at the reported urging of Tyson Foods, President Trump invoked the D [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
As the COVID19 crisis reverberates through our society, our food system is stressed. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
This year, Californians have an opportunity to vote for more humane and ethical treatment of some animals raised in the state, and some animal products brought into California. [read post]
23 Jan 2024, 7:27 am
DC Water put customers at risk. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
After Hurricane Florence the road to recovery is long and hard for North Carolina neighbors of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), dangerous industrial facilities that produce animals [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
In a time when we are experiencing more intense, disruptive climate impacts, the consequences of this Supreme Court decision will be even more harmful and deadly, with Black people and low-income people bearing the worst. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
As Hurricane Dorian approaches a year later, not much has improved for North Carolinians since Hurricanes Florence and Michael [read post]
