Climate & Environmental Protection
Mountaire
“For years, I’ve been trying to figure out what was the cause of my son dying of an asthma attack. They’re saying it’s going to cost millions and millions and…
Blackwood v. N&M Dairy
N&M Dairy was a multi-thousand cow dairy that the dumped millions of gallons of waste produced annually in surrounding open fields and earthen lagoons. The government and N&M Dairy consultants…
Pollution Online: Lawsuit Seeks To Protect South Platte River From Colorado Slaughterhouse Pollution
The Center for Biological Diversity and Food & Water Watch filed a lawsuit in federal court recently against the JBS-Swift Beef Company to stop illegal discharges of slaughterhouse pollution into…
Iowa Public Trust Doctrine (Iowa CCI & FWW v. State of Iowa)
FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice), Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, and Food & Water Watch filed a lawsuit against the State of Iowa claiming that the state…
Public Justice Leans Forward to Enforce a Right to Clean Water
Public Justice’s Food Project, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, and Food & Water Watch recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of Iowans to hold the corporate-controlled agriculture system accountable for polluting…
Yakima Valley Dairy Cases
In October 2012, the Center for Food Safety and the Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) warned four major Yakima Valley (Wash.) factory farms that they would take…