Food & Water Watch

National organizations, businesses, and public health advocates came together at Microplastic-Free US Hill Days, a national lobbying event organized by The 5 Gyres Institute to advance federal action on microplastic pollution. Participating organizations included Food & Water Watch, Oceana, and Hispanic Access Foundation, alongside businesses including CLEANR and Intrinsi...

Washington, D.C. – In a letter sent to Congress today, more than 520 organizations from 48 states called for the enactment of a full nationwide moratorium on the approval and construction of ...

The Trump administration has made it clear that it doesn’t care about the health of our communities or our environment. That’s why we need to come together to protect each other and the places we love and call home.

We know we have our work cut out for us. But thanks to dedicated people like you — who build up our people power and strengthen our movement — we w...

In 2009, the EPA issued an “endangerment finding” for greenhouse gases, which reflects the agency’s determination under the Clean Air Act (CAA) that this pollution threatens public health and welfare.. The endangerment finding followed the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. EPA which found that greenhouse gases fall within the CAA’s definition of a pollutan...

Hazle Township, Luzerne County — Last night, amidst widespread community opposition to data centers, the Hazle Township Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a municipal curative amendment that pauses consideration of any new data center applications for six months to allow the township to update its zoning ordinances for this industrial use.

The ...