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- Issue Brief
Factory Farm Nation: 2020 Edition
- Issue Brief
What the SLUDGE Is This?
- Issue Brief
Lead: A Lurking Threat in Drinking Water
- Fact Sheet
Building a Climate-Resilient Florida
- Fact Sheet
Factory Farms and Climate Change
- Expert Insight
INFOSHEET: Water Taxpayer Protection Act
- Expert Insight
Earth to Rep. Scott Peters: Big Oil Isn’t the Good Guy
- Expert Insight
Can These 5 Bills Change Humanity’s Trajectory?
- Expert Insight
'It Shouldn't Take This Much Homework To Have Safe Food'
- Expert Insight
In California, Cap-and-Trade = Environmental Injustice
- Expert Insight
Andrew Wheeler's 5 Dirty Attacks
- Expert Insight
How You Took Scott Pruitt Down
- Expert Insight
The Lose–Lose Reality of RGGI
- Issue Brief
The Water Crisis in Martin County, Kentucky
- Expert Insight
Translating the New Swine Inspection System
- Expert Insight
A Bridge to Nowhere But The Bank
- Issue Brief
Paying to Pollute
- Fact Sheet
Fact Sheet: Paying to Pollute
- Expert Insight
No, Manure is Not a Renewable Energy Source
- Fact Sheet
Climate Change and Unnatural Disasters
- Expert Insight
This is What Minimizing Climate Urgency Looks Like
- Fact Sheet
Pipelines 101: A Quick Reference Guide
- Expert Insight
Trump’s Trade Trojan Horse
- Expert Insight
Trump's Terrible Budget Proposal: A Closer Look
- Expert Insight
100 Percent Renewable Energy by 2035: How We Get There
- Expert Insight
Monsanto Manipulates Science to Make Roundup Appear Safe
- Expert Insight
California’s Solar Battle: Fossil Fuels vs. Solar Power
- 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
Timeline: The EPA's Fracking Study
- Expert Insight
International Tribunal Takes on Monsanto's Roundup
- Expert Insight
Fracking Causes Earthquakes. Period.
- Expert Insight
Governor Hogan's Fracking Set-Up
- Fact Sheet
Campus Campaigns to Ban Bottled Water
- Expert Insight
Baltimore Needs Income-Based Water Service Billing
- Report
GMO Food: An Overview
- Expert Insight
The ALEC Attack on Solar Power
- Issue Brief
Fracking and the Food System
- Fact Sheet
The TPP Assault on Food Safety
- Issue Brief
How Factory Fish Farms Misuse Antibiotics
- Expert Insight
Flint Water Crisis Timeline: The Governor's Role
- Expert Insight
Tom Vilsack’s Evil Son Comes to Dinner
- Fact Sheet
Poultry Litter Management Act
- Expert Insight
The Case Against Water Quality Trading
- Expert Insight
100 Percent Clean Energy By 2035 To Stop Global Warming
- Expert Insight
A Blue and Just Future is Possible
- Expert Insight
Advisory Panel Boxes in Obama EPA on Fracking Study
- Expert Insight
How the Wheels Fell off the EPA’s Fracking Study
- Fact Sheet
Poultry Litter Incineration
- Expert Insight
Global Brew Merger Leaves Us Crying in our Beer
- Expert Insight
The Heavy Price Tag of GMO Contamination
- Expert Insight
Nanotechnology
- Fact Sheet
The Case for GMO Labeling
- Expert Insight
Irradiation
- Expert Insight
Water Privatization: Facts and Figures
- Fact Sheet
The DARK Act
- Expert Insight
Help Obama See The Marfa Lights
- Expert Insight
What Makes a Poison?
- Report
Ocean Acidification
- Issue Brief
Detroit Needs a Water Affordability Plan
- Expert Insight
Is USDA Censoring Anti-GMO Science?
- Issue Brief
Fracking and Earthquakes
- Expert Insight
Food & Global Trade FAQ
- Fact Sheet
Ban Fracking in Florida
- Expert Insight
Crashing the Pro-GMO Party
- Fact Sheet
How GMO Crops Hurt Farmers
- Issue Brief
El Falso “Consenso Científico”
- Fact Sheet
Don't Frack Denver
- Issue Brief
Haddonfield’s Water Future
- Fact Sheet
The Bakken Boom
- Expert Insight
The Science is Still Out on GMO Moths
- Issue Brief
Toxic Workplace: Fracking Hazards on the Job
- Fact Sheet
Monsanto's Seed Company Subsidiaries
- Fact Sheet
Grain Reserves: Common-Sense Farm Policy
- Expert Insight
USDA: Start Telling the Truth About Inspector Shortages
- Issue Brief
The Rapid Industrialization of Frac Sand
- Issue Brief
Trouble Brewing in the Great Lakes
- Report
Grocery Goliaths
- Fact Sheet
TAFTA
- Expert Insight
Virtual Water
- Fact Sheet
Undermining Local Democracy
- Fact Sheet
Ban Fracking Now!
- Fact Sheet
Ending Big Chicken’s Free Ride
- Fact Sheet
The World Food Prize
- Expert Insight
Got Organic Checkoff? No Thanks.
- Issue Brief
The EPA’s Failure to Track Factory Farms
- Issue Brief
Fracking Colorado
- Fact SheetReport
Take Back the Tap: Bottled Water Wastes Resources and Money
- Issue Brief
Eminent Domain
- Report
Superweeds
- Issue Brief
The Truth About Offsets
- Fact Sheet
Frackademia
- Fact Sheet
How Much do Labels Really Tell You?
- Report
A Toxic Flood
- Report
Biotech Ambassadors
- Fact Sheet
Ractopamine
- Report
Borrowing Trouble
- 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
- Expert Insight
Factory Fish Farming
- Expert Insight
GE Salmon: BIO's Sacrificial Lamb?
- Fact Sheet
Natural Gas Pipelines
- Issue Brief
Genetically Engineered Salmon
- Issue Brief
Pollution Trading
- Report
U.S. Energy Insecurity
- Fact SheetReport
The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies
- Expert Insight
Of Course Monsanto Says It’s Safe
- Fact Sheet
Trading Away Your Right to Clean Water
- Fact SheetReport
Private Equity, Public Inequity
- Fact Sheet
Banning the Bottle on Campus
- Fact Sheet
GE Crops, Chemicals and the Environment
- Fact Sheet
Greenwashing GE Crops
- Report
Cultivating Influence
- Report
Factory-Fed Fish
- Fact Sheet
Don’t Bet on Wall Street
- Fact Sheet
Water for the Public, Not for Profit:
- Fact Sheet
Ban Fracking in California
- Expert Insight
Your Million-Dollar GE Salmon
- Report
Our Right to Water
- Expert Insight
Watch Out North Carolina: You’re Getting Fracked
- Fact SheetReport
Fracking: The New Global Water Crisis
- Fact Sheet
United Water Can’t Be Trusted!
- Fact Sheet
Public-Public Partnerships
- Issue Brief
Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes
- Issue Brief
Cooking the Books
- Report
Farm Bill 101
- Fact Sheet
The Road to Rio+20
- Expert Insight
Prepaid Water Meters
- Issue Brief
Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois
- ReportIssue Brief
Do Farm Subsidies Cause Obesity?
- Expert Insight
Fracking all the way to the Bank
- Fact Sheet
Greenwashing Our Fisheries
- Issue Brief
Pipe Dreams
- Expert Insight
Right to Water
- Issue Brief
Water Equals Life
- Report
Fish, Inc.
- Fact Sheet
Selling Out Consumers
- Report
Veolia Environnement
- Report
Hanging on for Pure Life
- Fact Sheet
Disasters in Ocean Aquaculture
- Report
What’s in the Water?
- Fact Sheet
Farm Subsidies 101
- Fact Sheet
The Public Works
- Fact SheetReport
Trends in Water Privatization
- Fact SheetReport
Priceless: The Market Myth of Water Pricing Reform
- Fact Sheet
What Does Soy Have to Do with Fish?
- Issue Brief
Bottling Our Cities' Tap Water
- Fact SheetReport
Not So Fast, Natural Gas
- ReportGuide
How Your Organization Can Promote Tap Water
- Issue Brief
Public-Private Partnerships
- Fact SheetReport
Bluewashing
- Fact Sheet
Triclosan: What the Research Shows
- Fact Sheet
Top 10: Why Water Privatization Fails
- Fact Sheet
How to Go rBGH-Free
- Report
Dried Up, Sold Out
- Report
Not Worth Its Salt
- Fact Sheet
Ocean Fish Farming
- Report
Suspicious Shrimp
- Fact Sheet
Milk Protein Concentrates
- Fact Sheet
Dairy Crisis 101
- Fact Sheet
Nestlé’s Move to Bottle Community Water
- Fact Sheet
Fluoride: The Chemical
- Report
rBGH
- Report
Where’s the Local Beef?
- Fact Sheet
Chinese Imports
- Report
Money Down the Drain
- Fact SheetReport
Desalination
- Report
What Is Desalination?
- Report
Laboratory Error
- Report
Dairy 101
- ReportCorporate Profile
Aqua America
- ReportGuide
Free Your Event from Bottled Water
- Report
A Fishy Story
- Fact Sheet
rBGH: Anything but Green
- Report
Costly Returns
- Report
Carbon Monoxide
- Fact Sheet
rBGH: What the Research Shows
- Fact Sheet
Irradiation and Vegetables Don’t Mix
- Fact Sheet
Sweating the Small Stuff
- Fact Sheet
Cloned Animals on the Dinner Plate?
- Fact Sheet
Say No to rBGH!
- Fact Sheet
Fish for Sale
- Fact Sheet
Regulation Degradation
- Fact Sheet
Caged in by Trade
- Fact Sheet
American Water: a Corporate Profile
- Expert Insight
Local Resolutions Against Fracking
- Issue Brief
Aqua America
- Fact Sheet
United Water: A Corporate Profile