2008

• April 16, 2008: Chico State University is taking back the tap by asking students whether the campus should stop selling bottled water. Read about our influence on this decision in the Mercury-Register.
  
  
• April 12, 2008: Executive Director Wenonah Hauter voices our concerns about open ocean aquaculture in TheFishSite.com and Fish Update.
  
  
• April 11, 2008: We attended USDA's meeting on its next proposed steps to reverse the increase in recalls related to E. coli in ground beef. Read about it in CIDRAP.
  
  
• April 7, 2008: Our joint letter to Ohio Governor Ted Strickland urging him to modify milk rules to permit use of the claims “rbGH-free,” “rbST-free” and “no artificial hormones is featured in Consumers Union and the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
  
  Marianne Cufone, our fish campaign director, speaks out against the plan to allow industrial–scale fish farming in the Gulf of Mexico in 2TheAdvocate and The Times-Picayune.
  
  
• April 5, 2008: On April Fool's Day, we challenged people to taste the difference between tap water and bottled water. Our video, Don't Be Fooled, is featured on AlterNet.
  
  
• April 3, 2008: Our new report, More Fowl Foul, shows the continuing failure of the USDA to protect consumers from Salmonella contamination of broiler chickens. Read about it in Newsinferno.com, CIDRAP and Village News Network.
  
  
• April 2, 2008: Our factory farm map is featured in the Ithaca Times.
  
  
• March 20, 2008: We're challenging college students from around the U.S. to declare their love for tap water with the I Heart Tap Water video contest. Read about it in UConn Daily Campus and The Heartland Institute.
  
  
• March 19, 2008: Our restaurants–based Take Back the Tap campaign that encourages restaurants to break the bottled water habit is featured in the California Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Examiner.com.
  
  
• March 11, 2008: In light of pharmaceuticals being found in the drinking water supply, our clean water trust fund and Take Back the Tap campaigns are featured in News-Medical.net and Environment News Service.
  
  
• March 7, 2008: Monsanto wants to ban "hormone free" milk labels, keeping consumers in the dark. Assistant Director Patty Lovera comments in DigitalJournal.com and the Deseret Morning News.
  
  Our Take Back the Tap report is featured in the DesMoinesRegister.com and Yahoo! Green.
  
  
• March 6, 2008: Our views on the reduction of the number of federal meat inspectors are featured in OMB Watch.
  
  
• March 2, 2008: Due to the recent beef recall from Westland/Hallmark Meat Company, a few Chino, CA beef inspectors have been put on leave. Read what Felicia Nestor, our senior food policy analyst, has to say about this in the Los Angeles Times.
  
  
• March 1, 2008: Patrick Woodall, senior policy advocate on farm policy and international trade, comments on the increase in food imports in the Evening Bulletin.
  
  
• February 26, 2008: Our Take Back the Tap campaign is featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Los Angeles Times.
  
  
• February 19, 2008: USDA recently ordered a recall of 143 million pounds of beef from Westland/Hallmark Meat Company –– the largest recall in US history. Felicia Nestor, our senior food policy analyst, speaks about USDA's shortage of slaughterhouse inspectors in the Monterey County Herald, the San Diego Union Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Associated Press. Our response to the cattle industry is featured in the Kansas City Star and the Denver Post.
  
  
• February 15, 2008: Our challenge to college students from around the US to declare their love for tap water –– and get it on film in our I Heart Tap Water student video contest –– is featured in Water Technology Online and PR Newswire.
  
  We're proud to present Board Director Maude Barlow and Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water on her 2008 U.S. book tour. Read about it in PR Newswire, Foreign Policy In Focus, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.
  
  
• February 6, 2008: Hear what Felicia Nestor, senior food policy analyst, has to say about USDA's proposal to reduce the number of federal inspectors in poultry slaughterhouses in BusinessWeek.
  
  
• February 2, 2008: Staff Attorney Zach Corrigan discusses the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council's plan to rework its offshore aquaculture strategy in Fish Farmer Magazine and Fish Update.
  
  Executive Director Wenonah Hauter voices our concerns about Indiana's proposal to prevent milk labels from stating that the milk is hormone–free in DairyReporter.com.
  
  
• February 1, 2008: Our call on the international community to help the people suffering from violence in the Lake Naivasha region of Kenya, not the industrial flower farms is featured in African Path, Environmental Data Interactive and the Los Angeles Times.
  
  
• January 23, 2008: Our recent efforts with Grassroots International to promote food sovereignty is featured in Grist Magazine.
  
  Organizing Director Victoria Kaplan promotes taking back the tap in Lake Oswego Review and Mother Earth News.
  
  
• January 17, 2008: We comment on the FDA's new approval of meat and milk from cloned animals in The Register, Guardian Unlimited and The StarPhoenix.
  
  
• January 16, 2008: Executive Director Wenonah Hauter voices our concerns about desalination in AlterNet.
  
  
• January 12, 2008: Tanzania wins damages from a subsidiary of British company Biwater in a dispute over a contract to run the water system of Dar es Salaam. Executive Director Wenonah Hauter comments on this victory in the Guardian Unlimited.
  
  
• January 10, 2008: Senior Food Lobbyist Tony Corbo comments on a proposal to charge food companies a registration fee in order to boost FDA's food safety budget in GovExec.com.
  
  
• January 9, 2008: Our joint effort to create a new website called H₂O Conserve allows visitors to calculate their "water footprint". Read about it in Reuters.
  
  
• January 8, 2008: Executive Director Wenonah Hauter promotes the need for a clean water trust fund in USA Today.

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2007

• December 24, 2007: Our recommendation for a federal clean water trust fund is featured in E/The Environmental Magazine.
  
  
• December 20, 2007: Executive Director Wenonah Hauter voices our concerns on the use of cloned animals for meat and milk consumption in CNN International and The Associated Press.
  
  
• December 11, 2007: Our upcoming public hearings pertaining to offshore aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico are featured in Fish Farmer Magazine and Fish Update.
  
  Fish Director Marianne Cufone discusses industrial fish farming in phillyBurbs.com and Grist Magazine.
  
  
• December 2, 2007: Policy Advocate Patrick Woodall comments on ethanol in the Houston Chronicle and Bay Area Indymedia.
  
  
• November 27, 2007: This week, the National Organics Standards Board is recommending that fish raised in aquaculture facilities carry the official USDA organic label. Our views on this proposal are featured in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
  
  
• November 25, 2007: We took the "Tap Water Challenge" by identifying the taste difference between tap water and bottled water. Read about it in Inside Bay Area.
  
  
• November 22, 2007: Policy Advocate Patrick Woodall discusses the 2007 Farm Bill in an interview with Pacifica Radio.
  
  
• November 12, 2007: Our plans plans to work with municipal water systems to distribute reusable bottles is featured in The New York Times.
  
  
• November 3, 2007: Our analysis of proposed industrial fish farming in the Gulf of Mexico is featured in Grist Magazine.
  
  
• November 2, 2007: Executive Director Wenonah Hauter comments on USDA organic standards for seafood in Earthtimes.
  
  
• November 1, 2007: Read about our opposition to a draft plan to open federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico to industrial fish farming in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

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