News & Commentary

We are in the critical decade for food waste action. As we progress toward our national goal to reduce food waste generation by 50% by 2030, despite navigating life through a pandemic, good work to reduce food waste continues. This…

Date labeling inconsistencies are one of the leading causes of food waste in the U.S. The power to standardize date labels lies with the federal government and a bi-partisan group of legislators has just introduced bills in the House and…

Farming organically and regeneratively—with careful attention to soil health and ecosystems, and without reliance on fossil fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers—is a key piece in the climate puzzle, as well as a recipe for long-term resilience in our food supply.

The Build Back Better Act is a historic investment in climate and health adaptation.

Health departments and health inspectors, who frequently interact with food facilities, are uniquely positioned to inform food facilities about food waste reduction and food donation.

Over 100 organizations are releasing an updated version of the Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals outlining a ten-part roadmap for transforming the chemical industry.

When is a pesticide not a pesticide?

This much-awaited report will be endlessly useful fostering dialogue and creating unified priorities.

The environmental community continued to chalk up wins in the state legislature despite another unusual year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a gubernatorial recall election.

The states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island stand to see $12.7 billion dollars in net societal benefits, improved health and air quality, and increased investments over the next 30 years through adoption of Clean Truck Programs in their states.

In an op-ed calling for the nuclear power plant’s operating license to be extended past 2025, Steven Chu and Ernest Moniz acknowledge that the process would be “complex.” It wouldn’t just be complex; it would be hugely expensive and wrong.

While it may not have grabbed headlines, nestled inside the 2,000+ pages of the $1T bipartisan infrastructure bill President Biden signed into law last week are two programs that will boost bee and butterfly populations across all 50 states.

The funding in the Build Back Better Act, combined with funding in the bipartisan infrastructure bill, will be, by far, the most significant funding for removing lead from drinking water in U.S. history.

For more than 100 years, the oil and gas industry has been drilling wells across the nation and then, as often as not, walking away. Today Congress took a major step toward fixing that problem.

Now we’re counting on the Senate to deliver on the country’s most consequential climate legislation ever.

McDonald's fails to deliver on its pledge to end routine antibiotic use in global beef supplies.

For the last decade, the FDA has been urging the industrial meat industry to use antibiotics more wisely. That makes it important to question why livestock sales have risen the past two years.

The future of clean, zero-emission trucks is now in the hands of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. Following a robust comment period, the State must decide whether to move forward with the Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) rule.