Listen to the story here. The administration’s proposal to set deadlines for National Environmental Policy Act analyses and reduce the number of federal actions that would be subject to review also singles out a USDA program for attention. The proposal would exclude from NEPA review projects enabled by the...
Read MoreSome advocates have concerns about an agreement reached between state environmental regulators and Mountaire Farms over wastewater violations from 2017. The agreement resolves permit violations associated with a 2017 wastewater treatment facility failure at the chicken company’s Millsboro plant over which the Delaware Department of Natural...
Read MoreColorado regulators are now rethinking how they handled dangerous water discharges from one of the world’s largest meat packers....
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Late yesterday afternoon, Polk County District Court Judge Robert Hanson ordered that a lawsuit to restore the Racoon River, heavily polluted with agricultural runoff, may proceed over the objections of the State of Iowa and agencies implementing the voluntary Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy....
Read MoreJessica Culpepper, director of the Food Project, talks about her vision for a better, healthier food system that results in healthy, empowered communities and sustainable livelihoods for farmers — and why Public Justice is helping to organize lawyers to join the fight....
Read MoreImagine your elderly family member, placed in the care of a nursing home, being abused by their caretaker. Imagine your six-month-old child spending the day at a trusted daycare, and being punished by their daycare worker – who breaks the child’s leg. Imagine a major industry in...
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Read MoreIn a recent decision, the Indiana Court prioritized corporate profits, unchecked pollution and industrial agriculture facilities ahead of the interests of Indiana families....
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Indiana’s Right to Farm Act essentially strips independent farmers and rural residents of any sort of redress against polluting concentrated animal feeding operations....
Read MoreThe Indiana Farmers Union, with the support of the farmers union as well as Family Farm Action, Public Justice and Food & Water Watch, has filed a friend of the court brief to petition the state’s top court to reconsider a lawsuit by homeowners against a...
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