Food Water Watch

Cancer in the Ransom Note

Sandra Steingraber | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Food & Water Watch, Environment, Cancer, Environmental Health, Fracking, Water Pollution, Water Crisis, Leukemia, Lung Cancer, Colon Cancer, Breast Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Green News

Why should cancer patients in the United States and Canada -- and those who love or diagnose them -- care about a report about looming water shortages in distant countries such as South Africa and Argentina?

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Hickenlooper May Be in Bed With the Oil Industry, But Coloradans Have His Wake-up Call

Sam Schabacker | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Food & Water Watch, Fracking, Water Pollution, Water, Oil, Hydrofracking, Natural Gas, John Hickenlooper, Food-Water-Watch, Denver News

Governor Hickenlooper had a few particularly cozy days with the oil and gas industry the other week. Even so, the grassroots movement that opposes fracking in Colorado is starting to win.

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Summer's Coolest Culinary Trend: Invasive Species

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Invasive Species, Food & Water Watch, Sustainable Seafood, Seafood, Food News

There are many cases of invasive species wreaking havoc. Eating them would not only mitigate harm, but actively improve the "invaded" ecosystem. Is it possible to fish and market and eat our way out of a situation we've fished and marketed and eaten our way into?

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Feds Unveil Plan for Offshore Gulf Fish Farms

Susan Buchanan | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Food & Water Watch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Hurricanes, Restaurants, Louisiana Sea Grant, Asia, BP Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, Seafood, Gulf Restoration Network, Green News

You probably already eat chicken or salmon raised in cramped, factory-like conditions, and in a couple of years you may see farmed drum, redfish, pompano or amberjack from the Gulf of Mexico in supermarkets.

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The Bad Three Are Worse Than You've Heard: Here's Why

Sam Schabacker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food & Water Watch, Sustainable Agriculture, Colorado, Local Food, Sustainable Food, 2010 Elections, Water, Elections 2010, Denver News

If these three measures pass, local and state government will experience such a precipitous decline in funding that you can expect to see boarded-up shops, laid off teachers, and potholes by the thousands across the state of Colorado.

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Will Colorado Legislators Help Us Fight for a Better Food System?

Sam Schabacker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food & Water Watch, Food, Usda, Ranchers, Livestock, Doj, Denver News

We've waited nearly 90 years since the original piece of legislation to prevent corporate control of our food was passed in 1921. It's time for the USDA to finally implement and enforce the legislation.

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Meet Your Meat: Why We All Should Care Where Our Burger Comes From

Sam Schabacker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food & Water Watch, Usda, Denver-Colorado, Tom Vilsack, Livestock, Agriculture, Doj, Food, Department of Justice, Colorado, Denver News

As corporations increasingly own the animals on giant feedlots they control, they are able to suppress the price independent ranchers across the state can get for their livestock.

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BP Halts Watchdog Lawsuit On Legal Technicality

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food & Water Watch, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, Minerals Management Service, Atlantis, BP Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Oil Spill Lawsuit, Oil, Green News, BP Lawsuit, Green News

A lawsuit filed by watchdog group Food & Water Watch against the U.S. Minerals Management Service alleging that BP's Atlantis oil rig is unsafe has be...

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Rep. Grijalva Compares BP's Atlantis Rig To Deepwater Horizon: 'Same Pathological Pattern'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Coast Disaster, Food & Water Watch, John Breaux, Interior, Ken Abbott, Raul Grijalva, Bp, Deepwater Horizon, Email, Green, Engineer, Salazar, Gulf Oil Spill, Mms, Atlantis, Green News

As the errors leading up to the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf come to light, parallels between the Deepwater Horizon and another offshore rig, BP'...

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Watchdog To Salazar: Close BP's Atlantis Or Get Out Of The Way

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food & Water Watch, Salazar, Next Deepwater Horizon, Kenneth Abbott, Atlantis, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News

By allowing existing offshore drilling operations to continue despite his six-month ban of the practice, President Obama is ignoring numerous red flag...

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Water On The Moon: When Do We Move?

Robin Madel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food & Water Watch, Epa, Toxic Waters, Charles-Duhigg, Water on the Moon, Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Clean Water Trust Fund, Fda, Tap Water, Water-Privatization, New York Times, Bottled Water, Sdwa, Green News

In the U.S. we're blessed to have fresh water that meets many of our needs. If we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of that water, we have no choice but to take steps to protect and properly treat it.

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Pink Washing the Dangers of Bottled Water

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Plastic Pollution, Polycarbonate, Water Bottles, Smartwater, Plastic Bottles, Breast Cancer Fund, Polyethylene-Terephthalate, Environmental Working Group, The American Chemistry Council, Food & Water Watch, Epa, Estrogen, Breast Cancer, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Fda, Prostate Cancer, Synthetic-Estrogen, Perfluorinated Carbons, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Bpa, Bisphenol A, PET Plastic Bottles, Pfc, Sparkletts, Green News

Perhaps Sparkletts is promoting an alliance with a cancer charity as a PR strategy to distract consumers from Sparkletts' more significant association with their bottles, which are made with a known carcinogen -- BPA.

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