News & Commentary

The New York State Legislature passed a bill (S2122-A / A160-B) in the closing days of this legislative session to require more stringent measures to reduce lead in drinking water in schools. This is a huge victory for kids!

In a pandemic, public health protection should trump drug makers' interests.

Now it’s our turn to rally around this vision of a cleaner, healthier, more prosperous future.

NJ extends shutoff protection, through 2021, to millions at risk of losing water, electric, and gas service. A necessary step, while the state works to secure financial support for families that fell behind on utility bills during the COVID-19 emergency.

The Lead Service Line Replacement and Notification Act will put the health of Illinoisians first—particularly those who bear the brunt of toxic lead exposure.

The President’s Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) budget would make a down payment on addressing the crisis of decrepit water supplies serving tens of millions of people with basic health and safety needs.

Less than 7 percent of U.S. cropland uses cover crops—meaning there’s a huge opportunity to scale up a practice that’s good for farmers and good for the environment. 

The Lead Service Line Replacement and Notification Act will put the health of Illinoisans first—particularly those who bear the brunt of toxic lead exposure.

We need to invest in rebuilding the food system from the bottom up as critical infrastructure for a just and sustainable future.

Women's health federation issues a global call for phase out of PFAS 'forever' chemicals, to address the mounting contamination and likely health problems they cause.

Nicor Gas is currently pushing a gas line extension bill to foist costly and dangerous fossil fuel energy onto Pembroke—one of Illinois’s last remaining historical Black farming communities—for decades to come.

As an industry, meatpackers seem to operate according to their own set of rules, often reprehensible and sometimes deadly. Among its global peers JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, is exceptional. The extent and documentation of its corporate irresponsibility is…

The climate crisis is burdening people across the U.S. with huge healthcare bills.

India, currently battling a severe second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, is facing multiple climate stressors simultaneously. Fueled by climate change, heatwaves and other extreme weather events are longer, more frequent, and more intense.