pollution
Clean Water Advocates Warn Pacific Seafood of Legal Action Over Warrenton Pollution
PORTLAND — Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Northwest Environmental Defense Center (NEDC) intend to sue a Pacific Bio Products facility over more than three years of ongoing pollution of the…
Sentient Media: Iowa Slaughterhouse Routinely Pollutes Waterways With Excessive Waste, Advocacy Groups Allege
The intent to sue notice was co-authored by Driftless Water Defenders, a non-profit Iowa-based group working to protect Iowa waterways from agricultural polluters, as well as Public Justice and FarmSTAND,…
CBS 2 Iowa: Iowa meatpacking plant faces legal threat over repeated, “unchecked” pollution
“The Clean Water Act does provide citizens like Driftless Water Defenders an avenue for addressing that government under-enforcement and protecting the right to clean waterways,” said attorney Holly Bainbridge of…
Vox: Meet the new neighbors: 7.5 million chickens and their mountains of manure
“Everyone has a right to use and enjoy their property” under common law, said David Muraskin, managing director for litigation at FarmSTAND. “What the Right to Farm laws have done…
When the Hurricane is Gone, But Toxic Factory Farm Waste Remains
As climate change drives ever stronger and more frequent natural disasters, communities across the country are facing deadly weather events with alarming regularity. Recovering from disasters like hurricanes and flash…
How Industrial Animal Ag is Making Lettuce Dangerous
It is no secret that industrial animal agriculture has devastating impacts on our air, water, and communities. A recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study confirms that factory farms…