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31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Deron Lovaas
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 by Valerie Baron
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 by Valerie Baron
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 by Valerie Baron
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 by Valerie Baron
Speaking truth to power, that’s what Elsie Herring does every day. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Valerie Baron
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 by Valerie Baron
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]
17 Sep 2024, 10:46 am by Valerie Baron, Angela Guyadeen
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]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Valerie Baron
This should be the last North Carolina General Permit for industrial hog operations that sanctions the lagoon and sprayfield system. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Valerie Baron
As the COVID19 crisis reverberates through our society, our food system is stressed. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Valerie Baron
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 by Valerie Baron
Washington, DC faced an acute lead crisis in the early 2000s, and many residents believe we fixed the problem and our water is now safe. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Valerie Baron
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 by Valerie Baron
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 by Valerie Baron
“My life is in jeopardy because we’re working elbow to elbow,” slaughterhouse workers report. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Valerie Baron
As the residents of frontline communities in North Carolina and others in the southeastern U.S. [read post]
30 May 2024, 6:55 am by Valerie Baron
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 by Shelley Poticha
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 by Erik D. Olson
We have learned from the ongoing lead in water crises in Flint, Michigan; Newark, New Jersey; and  [read post]