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At the core of everything we do are individuals, families and communities fighting for our right to safe, healthy food and clean water. Explore some of the stories that inspire us onwards.
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    When His Dad Died, He Googled Teflon And Cancer And Found Out About PFAS.

    09.6.19

    Ersel Hickey was a beloved husband, father, and grandfather known around his small town of Hoosick Falls, NY as a neighborly, kind man. Just months into his retirement, he was told he had cancer. This is the story of how his grieving son looked into where that cancer could have come from and found out way more about his town’s water than he bargained for.

    Topics: 
    Corporate Control of Water
    Ersel and Michael Hickey before cancer and PFAS changed their worlds forever.
  • Story

    'You'll Never Even Know We Were Here,' Sunoco Told Ginny. They Lied.

    12.2.18

    When Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners came to Chester and Delaware counties just outside of Philadelphia to push their plans to drill, they didn't dream that Ginny and her community would put up the fight that they have. Now that these neighbors have had some success in tangling Sunoco's plans, they're planning to fight even harder to get the company's pipelines out of their yards.   

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    Ginny Kerslake stands in front of the neighborhood Sunoco is infringing on with its drilling.
  • Story

    Hallucinogenic Found In Meat, But The USDA Isn’t Taking Action

    10.17.18

    When banned drugs are found in random samples of meat, you would hope it would trigger an investigation of how the drugs are getting there. Instead, the USDA has been refusing to act. Why?

    Topics: 
    Broken Democracy
    Corporate Control of Food
    Is this beef irradiated?
  • Story

    Fracking Is A Water Hog That's Stealing Our Futures

    08.31.18

    A team of Duke University researchers are delivering a truth that’s hard to swallow — fracking is resulting in the disappearance of usable water. Will the people listen and do something in time?

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Fracking
  • Story

    We're Literally Eating and Drinking Plastic. Blame Fossil Fuels.

    07.30.18

    The plastics industry sees fracking as a huge opportunity for their profit margins. But plastic has already entered our food and water supply and our bodies—one more reason we need to move off fossil fuels before the problem gets even worse.

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Fracking
    Plastic bottles gathered in the ocean
  • Story

    Why Gov. Brown is No Climate Leader

    07.9.18

    Jerry Brown may not deny climate change the way Donald Trump does, but that by no means makes him a climate champion. 

  • Story

    Update on our 2018 Campaigns

    06.13.18

    In all our campaigns, you make change possible! Read more below about campaigns around the country you make possible that impact real people in a real way, every day.

  • Story

    Fossil Fuel Exec Says 100% Renewable Energy is Possible Now, and Then Backtracks

    07.17.17

    A Sempra Energy VP tells an audience of energy execs and journalists that the technology is available now to power California entirely by renewable energy. He walks back his comments after they are reported in the media.

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Wind turbines with solar panels
  • Story

    Food & Water Watch Canvass: Building a Movement Door by Door, Person by Person

    07.5.17

    “If you’re driving a movement forward that will be long-term and sustainable, you can’t just talk to the people you agree with.”

    Food & Water Watch canvasser speaks to resident
  • Story

    How One Activist is Fighting to Get Florida Off Fossil Fuels

    05.29.17

    At the launch of the Off Fossil Fuels campaign, Florida activist Brenda Probasco shared how she's made a difference in the fight for a statewide fracking ban. 

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    Brenda Probasco
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    The Little Moments That Keep Us Going in the Fight Against Fracking

    04.11.17

    Colorado Organizer Lisa Trope is surprised to connect with a local barista over news of a recent ban on fracking across the country in Maryland.

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Fracking
    Lisa Trope, Food & Water Watch Colorado Organizer
  • Story

    Here's How We're Going to Build the Clean Energy Revolution

    01.26.17

    This is how we'll build on our successes as a movement and bring about a true clean energy future. 

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Wind Clean Energy
  • Story

    Supporting the Front Lines at Standing Rock

    01.11.17

    An organizer from New Jersey gets a first-hand look at what effective action for climate justice looks like.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    Standing Rock march
  • Story

    How an 8 Year Old Activist Helped Ban Fracking

    12.7.16

    A young activist fought fracking by selling cookies—and helped keep it out of Alameda County. 

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    Sierra with ukulele
  • Story

    The Most Important Fight Against Big Oil That You Have Probably Never Heard Of

    10.27.16

    Momentum Grows for a Ban on Fracking in California’s Monterey County

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Organic Farmer Madeline Clark
  • Story

    From North Dakota to Salem: Water is Life

    10.14.16

    The question of Nestlé taking Oregon’s water should have been settled by a ballot measure back in May. But as Senior Northwest Organizer Julia DeGraw learned at the Capitol, we still have work to do.

    Topics: 
    Corporate Control of Water
  • Story

    To Celebrate Our Public Lands, Let's Ban Fracking

    09.23.16

    Public lands and national parks are precious to us. Here’s why we need to protect them so urgently.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    Glacier National Park
  • Story

    How a California Activist Learned to Think Locally

    08.29.16

    How activist Lani Miller has been building community to protect California’s water.

    Lani Miller
  • Story

    Fighting Fracking in Colorado

    08.25.16

    In Colorado, we fought together for a safer and healthier state, and will continue fighting for a better world for all -- one free of fracking.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
  • Story

    I Was Barred from a Nobel Laureate Press Conference by a PR Consultant with Monsanto Ties

    07.6.16

    Food & Water Watch researcher Tim Schwab exposes the empty rhetoric and unexplained discrepancies in the Nobel laureate attack on GMO activists.

    Topics: 
    Corporate Control of Food
    GMOs
    Tim Schwab
  • Story

    What Banning Fracking in Butte County Taught Me about Grassroots Organizing

    06.17.16

    Food & Water Watch Organizer Ella Teevan learned some homegrown lessons about activism while helping clinch a landslide fracking win at the ballot.

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Frack-Free Butte County Campaigners with Food & Water Watch's Ella Teevan
  • Story

    How Selfies Are Fighting Against the DARK Act

    05.25.16

    Michiganders found a quick and powerful way to fight for GMO labeling—with selfies. 

    Topics: 
    Corporate Control of Food
    GMOs
    Photo petitions collage
  • Story

    Keep It In the Ground

    05.12.16

    Food & Water Watch and 200 of our closest friends gathered recently on a sunny morning in Santa Fe, New Mexico to protest an auction to lease public lands for energy exploration and fracking. 

    Topics: 
    Climate Change & Environment
    Banner: New Mexico Ban Fracking
  • Story

    Life in the Land of Frack-quakes

    04.21.16

    At her home in Oklahoma, Jamie Glazier experiences fracking-related earthquakes almost daily. She explains what that means for her family, and how she's fighting back.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
  • Story

    Fighting for the Human Right to Water in Flint

    01.27.16

    Michigan native Darcey O’Callaghan explains who’s responsible for the state of Flint’s now-undrinkable drinking water.

    Topics: 
    Corporate Control of Water
    Activists deliver petitions asking HHS to declare a public health emergency in Flint
  • Story

    Opposing Undemocratic Pipeline Approvals in New York

    10.6.15

    Community activist Susan Van Dolsen works in her community to stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    Susan Van Dolsen
  • Story

    How One Photographer Is Protecting Colorado from Fracking

    05.5.15

    For Colorado photographer John Fielder, public lands are his muse – and they need our protection.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    John Fielder
  • Story

    Standing Up For Philadelphia’s Sustainable Economy

    04.6.15

    I’m standing with Food & Water Watch and the other organizations working to fight the “Dirty Fossil Fuel Plan.”

    Topics: 
    Fracking
  • Story

    A Decision No Family Should Have to Make

    12.14.14

    Food & Water Watch supporter Ann’s family was able to get away from fracking, but the fact is that not all families have the means to leave.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
  • Story

    Don’t Frack Glacier National Park, Montana's Natural Treasure

    09.21.14

    Eleanor Guerin, a former National Park Ranger, knows first-hand why Glacier is too precious to damage with fracking.

    Topics: 
    Fracking
    Ranger at Glacier National Park
  • Story

    What Happens When Your Antibiotics Don’t Work

    05.29.14

    The misuse of antibiotics on factory farms impacts everyone. Learn how Nicole had to battle an antibiotic-resistant strain of MRSA – right after giving birth.

    Topics: 
    Factory Farming & Food Safety
    Nicole and Thomas
  • Story

    What’s Really Scary on Halloween

    10.31.13

    Staff member Jo Miles remembers her hometown’s old-fashioned candy store. The Halloween candy aisle doesn’t measure up – and offers less variety than you think.

    Topics: 
    Corporate Control of Food
    Corporations that control the American candy industry
  • Story

    My 30 Years as a Poultry Inspector

    09.6.13

    Ken Ward, a retired USDA poultry inspector, tells us what he learned from his 30 years of experience on packing house floors.

    Topics: 
    Factory Farming & Food Safety

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