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  • Fact Sheet

    Renewable Natural Gas: Same Ol' Climate-Polluting Methane, Cleaner-Sounding Name

  • Fact Sheet

    The Case to Ban Fracking on Federal Lands

  • Issue Brief

    Now We’re Fracked: Fracking’s Public Health Crisis

  • Fact Sheet

    Dangerously Deep: Fracking’s Threat to Human Health

  • Fact Sheet

    Dirty and Dangerous: Stop Unnecessary Compressor Stations

  • Fact Sheet

    Eversource’s Plan to Privatize New Hartford’s Water

  • Fact Sheet

    The Urgent Case for a Moratorium on Mega-Dairies in New Mexico

  • Fact Sheet

    The Urgent Case for a Moratorium on Mega-Dairies in Oregon

  • Fact Sheet

    Fracking, Power Plants and Exports: Three Steps for Meaningful Climate Action

  • Issue Brief

    Cracked: The Case For Green Jobs Over Petrochemicals In Pennsylvania

  • Fact Sheet

    Green Manufacturing Over Petrochemicals in Pennsylvania: More Jobs, Wiser Investment

  • Fact Sheet

    Factory Farm Pollution Threatens the Great Lakes

  • Fact Sheet

    Chemical Recycling Of Plastics Won’t Close The Loop On The Climate Crisis

  • Fact Sheet

    Drilled Too Far: The Perils of Injection Wells

  • Fact Sheet

    The Science is In: We Can and Must Achieve 100 Percent Renewable Electricity by 2030

  • Issue Brief

    Factory Farm Nation: 2020 Edition

  • Fact Sheet

    Broken Agricultural System Promotes Climate Change Feedback Loop

  • Water In Peril: Climate Change to Exacerbate Water Woes

  • Fact Sheet

    Carbon Capture and Storage Has Four Fatal Flaws

  • Issue Brief

    Why We Need Food & Water Action On Climate Change

  • Issue Brief

    The Case Against Carbon Capture: False Claims and New Pollution

  • Fact Sheet

    Nuclear Energy Isn’t the Solution to Climate Catastrophe

  • Issue Brief

    Meltdown: The Dangerous Nuclear Option For Climate Control

  • Fact Sheet

    Fracking: A Bridge to Catastrophic Climate Change

  • Report

    Fracking's Bridge to Climate Chaos

  • Fact Sheet

    The Urgent Case for a Factory Farm Moratorium in Maryland

  • Fact Sheet

    Cap and Trade Hurts Environmental Justice

  • Fact Sheet

    Can Lab Meat Fix Our Factory Farm Problem?

  • Issue Brief

    Cap and Trade: More Pollution for the Poor and People of Color

  • Issue Brief

    What the SLUDGE Is This?

  • Fact Sheet

    Costco’s New Poultry Farms Are a Bad Deal for Iowa

  • Fact Sheet

    Community Choice Aggregation: Cleaner, Cheaper Electricity

  • Issue Brief

    Lead: A Lurking Threat in Drinking Water

  • Fact Sheet

    Building a Climate-Resilient Florida

  • Fact Sheet

    Fighting Florida’s Climate Chaos: Next Steps in Saving Our State

  • Fact Sheet

    Fracking Wastewater: A Toxic and Radioactive Problem

  • Issue Brief

    Working On Climate: How Union Labor Can Power A Green Future

  • Fact Sheet

    Fighting Climate Chaos With A Green Public Works Program

  • Report

    California Leads: How to Break Fossil Fuel Dependence in the Golden State

  • Fact Sheet

    FACT SHEET: California Is A Climate Emergency — Newsom Must Act

  • Campaign

    WATER Act: This One Thing Could Solve Our Water Crisis

    By Peter Thacher
  • Issue Brief

    Biogas From Factory Farm Waste Has No Place in a Clean Energy Future

  • One Courageous Man Is Standing Against Cabot Oil, But He's Not Alone

  • Expert Insight

    With Cap-and-Trade Scheme, New Jersey Chases False Climate Solutions and Environmental Injustice

    By Nikita Naik
  • A Letter From Wenonah About 'Fracking Endgame'

  • Fact Sheet

    Petrochemicals and Plastics, Power Plants, and Exports Drive a New Fracking Boom

  • Report

    The Fracking Endgame: Locked Into Plastics, Pollution, and Climate Chaos

  • Fact Sheet

    FACT SHEET: SoCalGas' Rush To Greenwash Gas

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: New Fortress Global Natural Gas Buildout Entrenches Fossil Fuel Dominance

  • Issue Brief

    Florida Already Has An Oil Spill Problem. Fracking Could Make It Worse.

  • Fact Sheet

    FACT SHEET: Saving Energy to Mitigate Climate Change

  • The extreme Midwest flooding this spring breaking farmers’ hearts, banks, and spirits

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Aera Energy's Plan to Drill Santa Barbara Tar Sands

  • Frackers Are Suing To Silence Ray Kemble. We're Standing By Him.

    By Wenonah Hauter
  • Fact Sheet

    Factory Farms and Climate Change

  • Report

    Building Climate Justice: Investing in Energy Efficiency for a Fair and Just Transition

  • Yes! These 21 Heroic Kids Are Suing The Government Over Climate Change

    By Angie Aker
  • Students Taste Victory As Their Campuses Move Away From Bottled Water

    By John Aspray
  • Fact Sheet

    Water. Jobs. Justice. The Case for the Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity and Reliability (WATER) Act

  • When His Father Died, He Googled Teflon And Cancer And Found Out About PFAS.

    By Angie Aker
  • How One Inspired Woman Helped Move Florida Toward Banning Fracking

  • Our Organizer Says The AOC/Markey Version Of A Green New Deal Needs To Be Better

  • Issue Brief

    These Chemicals Are Forever: Water Contamination from PFOA, PFOS, and other PFAS

  • My Kids & I Haven’t Left The House In Days Because Of The Polar Vortex

  • Expert Insight

    Rubber Was Found In Meat The USDA Labeled ‘Passed.’ Did It Really Get Inspected?

  • Expert Insight

    INFOSHEET: Water Taxpayer Protection Act

  • How A Factory Farm Is Keeping A Baby Away From Her Grandparents' Home

  • They Told Us Banning Fracking In Florida Was Impossible — Thankfully We Didn’t Listen

  • Fact Sheet

    FACT SHEET: Dominion Energy’s Undue Political Influence Hurts Virginians and the Climate

  • Fact Sheet

    FACT SHEET: Stopping Climate Change in Virginia

  • Fact Sheet

    FACT SHEET: Biomass Cannot Be Part of a U.S. Renewable Energy Future

  • Fact Sheet

    FACT SHEET: Dirty Biogas Has No Place in the United States’ Clean Energy Future

  • Her Grandfather Left A Land Legacy That Mountaire Poisoned

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

  • Report

    Dominion Energy's Power Grab

  • Fact Sheet

    FACT SHEET: Five Ways Dominion Puts Profits Ahead Of Virginians

  • Expert Insight

    Why No Lawmakers Have Stopped This Power Company’s Threat To Humanity

  • Expert Insight

    Climate Change Fueled Fires Are Killing People. New Congress Members Are Ready To Act

  • Campaign

    Climate Leaders Are Being Empowered In Our 2018 Campus Program

  • Expert Insight

    Fracking Will Be The Demise of Ancient and Modern Chaco Canyon

  • Expert Insight

    I Got A Seat At The Fracking Conference Where Andrew Wheeler Spoke

  • Fact Sheet

    Biomass Cannot Be Part of a Renewable Energy Future in Los Angeles

  • Expert Insight

    The Truth About Water Shut-Offs In America? You Won’t Find It Through Private Companies.

  • Report

    America's Secret Water Crisis

  • Expert Insight

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

  • Issue Brief

    From Superweeds to Cancer: Why It’s Time to Ban Monsanto’s Roundup

  • Expert Insight

    It’s Not Silly To Have Hope In Spite Of Climate Change. Here’s Why We Do.

  • Fact Sheet

    The Urgent Case for a Factory Farm Moratorium in Iowa

  • One Little Word (And Our Joint Lawsuit) Just Foiled Factory Fish Farms

  • Expert Insight

    The Hog Sh*t Floodwater Of Hurricane Florence Is No Accident

  • Fact Sheet

    FACT SHEET: Appalachian Fracked Gas Industry Cluster Threatens Communities and Environment

  • Another Petrochemical Sacrifice Zone

  • Issue Brief

    The Tiny Corner Of America Where Oil Titans Will Stash 2 Million Gallons Of Gas

  • I’m Writing From Hurricane Florence, A Figurative And Literal Sh*t Storm

  • The Pipeline That Exploded After Only 7 Days

  • Fact Sheet

    Biogas vs. California's Clean Energy Future

  • An Aquifer From The Ice Age Becomes A Battleground in New Mexico

    By Eleanor Bravo
  • Expert Insight

    It Took a School Groundskeeper Getting Cancer for Roundup to Get Rejected

  • Expert Insight

    Earth to Rep. Scott Peters: Big Oil Isn’t the Good Guy

  • Expert Insight

    'Food Gets Left Behind:' A Chat With 'Foodopoly' Author Wenonah Hauter

  • Expert Insight

    Can These 5 Bills Change Humanity’s Trajectory?

    By Angie Aker
  • Expert Insight

    'It Shouldn't Take This Much Homework To Have Safe Food'

  • Expert Insight

    In California, Cap-and-Trade = Environmental Injustice

  • Fact Sheet

    FACT SHEET: Oceans awash in toxic plastic — brought to you by fracking.

  • Report

    Cleanwashing: How States Count Polluting Energy Sources as Renewable

  • Fact Sheet

    Colorado Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card

  • Fact Sheet

    New York Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card

  • Fact Sheet

    Illinois Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card

  • Fact Sheet

    New Jersey Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: California Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Pennsylvania Renewable Portfolio Standard Report Card

  • Expert Insight

    Andrew Wheeler's 5 Dirty Attacks

  • Expert Insight

    Are Your State Officials in Cahoots with Big Water Corporations?

  • Expert Insight

    How You Took Scott Pruitt Down

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Maryland's Dangerous Game With Fracked Gas Projects

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Environmental Injustice in Pennsylvania

  • Expert Insight

    How Food and Trade Policy Led To Stealing Immigrants' Children

  • Report

    Pernicious Placement of Pennsylvania Power Plants

  • Expert Insight

    Take A Wild Guess Which Communities Power Plants Have Ended Up In

  • Report

    The Urgent Case for a Ban on Factory Farms

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: The Environmental Perils of Steam Fracking Oxnard's Tar Sands

  • California’s Cap-and-Trade Scheme Adds Financial Insult to Environmental Injury

  • Fact Sheet

    Scrapping California's Electric Grid System is a Giveaway to Dirty Fossil Fuels

  • Expert Insight

    The Lose–Lose Reality of RGGI

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Six Reasons to Ban Fracking in Illinois

  • Fact Sheet

    Hoja de datos: El gran fraude comercial del agua embotellada

  • Fact Sheet: The Big Business Hustle of Bottled Water

  • Expert Insight

    Maryland’s Current Renewable Program is Actually Undermining Clean Energy Goals

  • Report

    Report: Clean Energy for Los Angeles

  • Fact Sheet: Open Ocean Aquaculture is Factory Farming in the Sea

  • Issue Brief

    The Water Crisis in Martin County, Kentucky

  • Report

    Take Back The Tap: The Big Business Hustle of Bottled Water

    By Kiley Fisher
  • Expert Insight

    Translating the New Swine Inspection System

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Achieving 100% Clean Energy in New Jersey

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Toxic Oil Wastewater & Our Food?

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Achieving 100% Clean Energy in New York

  • Expert Insight

    A Bridge to Nowhere But The Bank

  • Fact Sheet: Achieving 100% Clean Energy in Maryland

  • Report

    Baltimore’s Water Crisis: Bad For Everyone

    By Jackie Filson
  • Issue Brief

    Ineos Chequered Environmental Track Record in Europe

  • Issue Brief

    Paying to Pollute

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Paying to Pollute

  • Issue Brief

    Chemical Billionaire's Bid for Fossil Fuel Empire: Ineos Corporate Profile

  • Expert Insight

    The Trump Plan Versus the Bloomberg Plan: Pick Your Poison

  • Expert Insight

    No, Manure is Not a Renewable Energy Source

  • Expert Insight

    Are Oil and Gas CEOs Getting Paid to Pollute? Sure Looks Like It.

  • Fact Sheet

    Climate Change and Unnatural Disasters

  • Expert Insight

    This is What Minimizing Climate Urgency Looks Like

  • Fact Sheet

    Five Reasons Baltimore Needs an Income-Based Water Affordability Program

  • Fact Sheet

    Double Trouble: Stop the Pilgrim Pipelines, Protect the Hudson Valley

  • Privatized Profits, Socialized Risks: The Ruse of Natural Gas Exports

  • Fact Sheet

    Greenwashing Fracking With "Clean" Biogas Buses

  • Fact Sheet

    Stopping Climate Chaos: 100 Percent Renewable Energy by 2035

  • Fact Sheet

    Pipelines 101: A Quick Reference Guide

  • Expert Insight

    Tunnel Vision as Water Affordability Crisis Looms in Los Angeles County

  • Monsanto’s Latest PR Blitz on Roundup is More Fake News

  • Issue Brief

    Ensuring the Renewable Energy Promise of Renewable Portfolio Standards

  • Expert Insight

    Trump’s Trade Trojan Horse

  • Expert Insight

    Trump's Terrible Budget Proposal: A Closer Look

  • Act Now to Get Us Off Fossil Fuels

  • Expert Insight

    100 Percent Renewable Energy by 2035: How We Get There

  • Report

    The Trans-Atlantic Plastics Pipeline: How Pennsylvania's Fracking Boom Crosses the Atlantic

  • Fact Sheet

    Los Angeles: Stop Investing in Fossil Fuels!

  • Fact Sheet

    Oil and Gas Industry Attack on Rooftop Solar Programs

  • Report

    Fracking Interests Provide Flood of Funding to Florida Politicians

  • Expert Insight

    Florida’s Fracking Ban Threatened by Dirty Energy Campaign Cash

  • Expert Insight

    Monsanto Manipulates Science to Make Roundup Appear Safe

  • Issue Brief

    Water Injustice: Economic and Racial Disparities in Access to Safe and Clean Water in the United States

  • Expert Insight

    California’s Solar Battle: Fossil Fuels vs. Solar Power

  • Expert Insight

    Maryland Communities Are In the Dark About CAFO Pollution

  • Fact Sheet

    Air Pollution from Oregon's Large Dairies

  • Expert Insight

    Clearing the Air on the Carbon Tax

  • Issue Brief

    How Fracking Supports the Plastic Industry

  • Expert Insight

    EPA Makes Rare Finding of Environmental Discrimination

  • Expert Insight

    Will the Clean Energy Revolution Be Won or Lost Through State Laws?

  • Expert Insight

    Timeline: The EPA's Fracking Study

  • Expert Insight

    International Tribunal Takes on Monsanto's Roundup

    By Carolyn Lois
  • Expert Insight

    Fracking Causes Earthquakes. Period.

  • Issue Brief

    Hard to Digest: Greenwashing Manure Into Renewable Energy

  • Report

    Toxic Buffet: How the TPP Trades Away Seafood Safety

  • Report

    The British Columbia Carbon Tax: A Failed Experiment in Market-Based Solutions to Climate Change

  • Expert Insight

    Governor Hogan's Fracking Set-Up

  • Fact Sheet

    Campus Campaigns to Ban Bottled Water

  • Expert Insight

    Which Side Are You On? Climate Chaos, Climate Reality and the Urgent Need to Act

  • Expert Insight

    The Fracking Industry Is Feeling the Heat -- And Plans to Fight Back

  • Fact Sheet

    The TPP Pushes the GMO Industry's Global Agenda

  • Expert Insight

    Baltimore Needs Income-Based Water Service Billing

  • Billions in Federal Funding Has Not Cleaned Up Our Waterways. Neither Will Pollution Trading.

    By Tyler Chilcott
  • Fact Sheet

    TPP: Big Giveaway for Agribusiness, Big Risk for Farmers

  • Fact Sheet

    How the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Unravels U.S. Food Safety Protections

  • Report

    GMO Food: An Overview

  • Fact Sheet

    U.S. Water Systems Need Sustainable Funding: The Case for the WATER Act

  • Expert Insight

    The ALEC Attack on Solar Power

  • Issue Brief

    Fracking and the Food System

  • Issue Brief

    Under the Influence: The National Research Council and GMOs

  • Fact Sheet

    Niagara Bottling Company to Bottle and Sell Bloomfield, Connecticut's Tap Water

  • Fact Sheet

    The TPP Assault on Food Safety

  • Issue Brief

    How Factory Fish Farms Misuse Antibiotics

  • FDA Corrects Misleading Data on GMO Salmon

  • Expert Insight

    After (Another) Hottest Month Ever, Increased Urgency to Ban Fracking

  • Expert Insight

    Flint Water Crisis Timeline: The Governor's Role

  • Expert Insight

    Tom Vilsack’s Evil Son Comes to Dinner

  • Report

    The State of Public Water in the United States

  • Is the GMO Mosquito Our Savior From the Zika Virus?

  • Fact Sheet

    Poultry Litter Management Act

  • What Would the World’s Largest Beer Company Look Like?

  • Fact Sheet

    Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Delivers a Rising Tide of Imported Fish

  • Expert Insight

    The Case Against Water Quality Trading

  • Expert Insight

    100 Percent Clean Energy By 2035 To Stop Global Warming

  • Expert Insight

    With Five More Years of Business-As-Usual, Fracking Will Bust the Carbon Budget

  • Expert Insight

    A Blue and Just Future is Possible

  • Expert Insight

    Advisory Panel Boxes in Obama EPA on Fracking Study

  • Report

    Water Quality Trading: Polluting Public Waterways for Private Gain

  • Farming Fish in the Great Lakes: A Great Big Mess

  • What a Masked Academic Crusader Says About GMO Journalism

  • Expert Insight

    How the Wheels Fell off the EPA’s Fracking Study

  • Fact Sheet

    Corporate Trade Lawsuits: Investor-State Dispute Resolution Threatens Democracy

  • Fact Sheet

    Poultry Litter Incineration

  • Expert Insight

    Global Brew Merger Leaves Us Crying in our Beer

  • Private Water and Fracking, a Dubious Duo

  • Expert Insight

    The Heavy Price Tag of GMO Contamination

    By Genna Reed
  • The Conflict of Interest Culture Among GMO Advocates

  • Expert Insight

    Nanotechnology

  • Meat Inspection

  • Fact Sheet

    The Case for GMO Labeling

  • Expert Insight

    Irradiation

  • Is FSIS Rewarding Past Bad Actors With Less Oversight?

  • Expert Insight

    Water Privatization: Facts and Figures

  • Ethics-Related Retraction Tarnishes the Sheen of Golden Rice

  • United Water's Breach of Trust in New York's Rockland County

  • Fact Sheet

    The DARK Act

  • Expert Insight

    Give Me a Break: Renewable Energy Credits Threatened by Koch Brothers

  • Will The White House Fix The GMO Approval Process?

    By Genna Reed
  • Fact Sheet

    ET Rover and NEXUS: Two Pipelines Threaten Ohio and Michigan

  • Case Studies

    Texas-sized Hypocrisy Served Up in Denton Over Fracking Ban

  • Expert Insight

    Help Obama See The Marfa Lights

  • Expert Insight

    What Makes a Poison?

  • Report

    Ocean Acidification

  • How The Release of The EPA’s Draft Assessment on Drinking Water Impacts Was Spun

  • Report

    Factory Farm Nation: 2015 Edition

  • Issue Brief

    Detroit Needs a Water Affordability Plan

  • Iowa State University goes Bananas over GMOs

  • Fact Sheet

    Why We Need to Ban Fracking on Public Lands

  • Expert Insight

    Is USDA Censoring Anti-GMO Science?

  • Issue Brief

    Fracking and Earthquakes

  • Expert Insight

    ReThink Energy: ‘We Will Ensure Florida Keeps Fracking Out of Our State’

  • Fact Sheet

    The State of Michigan Must Permanently Decommission Enbridge’s Line 5

  • Fact Sheet

    The Constitution Pipeline Threatens Several Rare Bat Species

  • Expert Insight

    Somerset County Residents Fight Back Against Expanding Chicken Industry

    By Claire Fitch
  • Report

    Corporate Control in Animal Science Research

  • Leaked Documents Underscore How TPP Will Provide Special Rights for Corporations

  • Expert Insight

    Food & Global Trade FAQ

  • Fact Sheet

    Ban Fracking in Florida

  • Report

    Antibiotic Resistance 101

  • Report

    The Urgent Case for a Ban on Fracking

  • Fact Sheet

    Abusive Poultry Contracts Require Government Action

  • Report

    Por Qué es Urgente Prohibir el Fracking

  • Expert Insight

    Crashing the Pro-GMO Party

  • Expert Insight

    The Research Is In: Regulations Alone Won’t Save Us From Climate Disaster

  • Fact Sheet

    Genetically Engineered Food: Human Health Risks

  • Fact Sheet

    How GMO Crops Hurt Farmers

  • Fact Sheet

    How Much Will Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods Really Cost?

  • Fracking Breaks the CO2 Budget

  • No Surprise: Congress Gets it Wrong on GMO Labels

    By Genna Reed
  • Issue Brief

    El Falso “Consenso Científico”

  • Who Supports Fracking?

  • Fact Sheet

    Don't Frack Denver

  • Issue Brief

    Haddonfield’s Water Future

  • Fact Sheet

    The Bakken Boom

  • What Will it Take for the EPA to Act on Fracking?

  • Campaign

    What Will it Take for the EPA to Act on Fracking?

  • Expert Insight

    The Science is Still Out on GMO Moths

    By Genna Reed
  • Why a Carbon Tax Won’t Save the Climate

  • Expert Insight

    Pro-GMO Database: Monsanto is the Most Common Funder of GMO Research

  • Issue Brief

    The So-Called Scientific "Consensus": Why the Debate on GMO Safety is Not Over

  • Issue Brief

    Toxic Workplace: Fracking Hazards on the Job

  • Issue Brief

    Incentivizing Fracking: The EPA’s “Clean Power Plan”

  • Expert Insight

    Setting the Record Straight on the Obama Administration’s Privatized Poultry Inspection System

  • Fact Sheet

    Monsanto's Seed Company Subsidiaries

  • Fact Sheet

    Reading’s Water Lease and the Costs of Privatization

  • Fact Sheet

    Grain Reserves: Common-Sense Farm Policy

  • Leaked Memo for Trade Agreement Reveals Big Handouts for Fossil Fuels

  • USDA Continues to Deceive on Meat Inspections

  • Fact Sheet

    Industry Profile: Grocery Manufacturers Association

  • Expert Insight

    USDA: Start Telling the Truth About Inspector Shortages

  • Expert Insight

    How the FDA’s Voluntary Guidance Fails to Curb Antibiotic Misuse in Livestock

  • On the Brink of Irrelevancy: Is the Honeymoon Over for FDA and AquaBounty?

  • Issue Brief

    Organic Farmers Pay the Price for Contamination

  • Issue Brief

    The Rapid Industrialization of Frac Sand

  • Issue Brief

    Trouble Brewing in the Great Lakes

  • Fact Sheet

    Fracking Infrastructure is Carving Up Pennsylvania

  • New Antibiotic Guidelines, but the Devil’s in the Details

  • Report

    Grocery Goliaths

  • Fact Sheet

    TAFTA

  • Expert Insight

    Virtual Water

  • Issue Brief

    No Accounting for Taste: Natural Capital Accounting and the Financialization of Nature

  • Fact Sheet

    An Overview of the Successful Public Purchase of the Felton Water System

  • Fact Sheet

    Undermining Local Democracy

  • Fact Sheet

    Ban Fracking Now!

  • Report

    The Social Costs of Fracking

  • Fact Sheet

    Ending Big Chicken’s Free Ride

  • Fact Sheet

    The World Food Prize

  • Fact Sheet

    The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Fast Tracking Fracking

  • Expert Insight

    Got Organic Checkoff? No Thanks.

  • Fact Sheet

    Save Antibiotics for Medicine, Not Factory Farms

  • What Does the Farm Bureau Have to Hide?

  • USDA’s FSIS Overrun with Management Problems

  • Issue Brief

    The EPA’s Failure to Track Factory Farms

  • Beef or Bull? What Zilmax Teaches Us About Industry Science

  • It’s time to clean house at FSIS

  • Issue Brief

    Fracking Colorado

  • Lies, Damned Lies, and Salmonella Testing At USDA

  • Fact SheetReport

    Take Back the Tap: Bottled Water Wastes Resources and Money

  • Issue Brief

    Eminent Domain

  • You Can’t “Get Fracking Right” in Maryland, Governor O’Malley

  • Fact Sheet

    Don't Fast Track Fracking and Unsafe Food

  • Report

    Superweeds

  • Is GE Food Making Pigs Sick?

  • Issue Brief

    The Truth About Offsets

  • Fact Sheet

    Frackademia

  • Fact Sheet

    Counterfeit Emissions Reductions: The Failings of Offsets

  • Fact Sheet

    How Much do Labels Really Tell You?

  • Report

    A Toxic Flood

  • Report

    Biotech Ambassadors

  • Report

    Embajadores De La Biotecnología

  • Expert Insight

    New Review Points to Glyphosate’s Dangerous Health Effects

    By Genna Reed
  • Fact Sheet

    Ractopamine

  • Fact Sheet

    Keep a Nestlé Water Bottling Plant Out of the Columbia River Gorge

  • Report

    Borrowing Trouble

  • Issue Brief

    Bad Trade: International Forest Offsets and California’s Carbon Market

  • Report

    Monsanto: A Corporate Profile

  • Fact Sheet

    Catch Shares vs. Catch Limits

  • Expert Insight

    Q: What's Fracking Got to do with Free Trade? A: Japan.

  • Expert Insight

    Here's Why Golden Rice Is Not A Golden Bullet

    By Genna Reed
  • Report

    Maryland: Now Is the Time to Ban Fracking

  • Issue Brief

    The Great Escape: Escapes and Disease Events in Fish Farming

  • Expert Insight

    Factory Fish Farming

  • Monsanto’s Love Affair with Synthetic Biology: A Match Made in Agricultural Hell

    By Genna Reed
  • Expert Insight

    From Fracking to Cracking – Is This the Next Toxic Practice Some Pennsylvanians May Soon Face?

  • Expert Insight

    GE Salmon: BIO's Sacrificial Lamb?

  • Fact Sheet

    Natural Gas Pipelines

  • Issue Brief

    Fracking: New York’s Food, Agriculture and Farms

  • Issue Brief

    Genetically Engineered Salmon

  • Issue Brief

    Dividend and Conquer: Cap-and-Dividend and Environmental Betrayal

  • Maple Leaf Foods, Canned Hams, FSIS and the 47 Percent

  • Issue Brief

    Pollution Trading

  • Issue Brief

    And the Value of Nothing: Alternatives to Gross Domestic Product and the Financialization of Nature

  • Report

    It Pays to Advertise: Junk Food Marketing to Children

  • Report

    U.S. Energy Insecurity

  • Release the Hormones: rBGH and GE salmon?

  • Fact SheetReport

    The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies

  • Expert Insight

    Of Course Monsanto Says It’s Safe

  • Issue Brief

    Fracking, Climate Change and the Water Crisis

  • Fact Sheet

    Trading Away Your Right to Clean Water

  • Fact Sheet

    Most Americans Want Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods

  • Fact Sheet

    Allentown’s Water Gambit: An Irresponsible and Risky Lease

  • Fact SheetReport

    Private Equity, Public Inequity

  • Expert Insight

    No Person Shall Be Deprived of Life, Liberty or Property… Unless the Oil and Gas Industry Says So

    By Alison K. Grass
  • China Sneaks its Chicken in on Man’s Best Friend

  • Fact Sheet

    Banning the Bottle on Campus

  • Fact Sheet

    GE Crops, Chemicals and the Environment

  • Fact Sheet

    Greenwashing GE Crops

  • Report

    Cultivating Influence

  • Report

    Water Municipalization Guide

  • Report

    Factory-Fed Fish

  • Fact Sheet

    Don’t Bet on Wall Street

  • Fact Sheet

    Water Is NOT a Commodity, Water Is a COMMON Resource

  • Fact Sheet

    Water for the Public, Not for Profit:

  • Fact Sheet

    The Top Five Reasons to Keep Illinois’’s Water in Public Hands

  • Fact Sheet

    Ban Fracking in California

  • Expert Insight

    Beware: Water Industry Thinks Water Pollution Is Good For Business

  • Expert Insight

    Your Million-Dollar GE Salmon

  • Expert Insight

    The Corporate Hijacking of America's Land-Grant Universities

  • Issue Brief

    California, Here They Come: Now Is the Time to Ban Fracking

  • A Growing Problem: Notes From The ‘Superweed’ Summit

  • Report

    Our Right to Water

  • Emails Reveal Cozy Relationship Between Gov. Martin O'Malley and Perdue

  • Report

    Public Research, Private Gain

  • Fact Sheet

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