At Food & Water Action, we're fighting to create a healthy future for all. Like you, we want a world where everyone has food they can trust, clean drinking water, and a livable climate. I’d like to share with you some of the progress you're helping make happen.
We’re Building a Model for National Water Justice in Baltimore
Food & Water Action has been working with partners and residents in Baltimore for years to create a winning model for water justice. Under our leadership, the coalition began with a historic win against privatization. In 2018, voters protected public ownership over the water system by passing a charter amendment to declare Baltimore’s water system a permanent, inalienable asset of the city. After that, the city passed the Water Taxpayer Protect Act to protect homeowners, renters and places of worship from losing their properties over unaffordable and incorrect water bills.
This past November, we mobilized to urge the Baltimore City Council to support the Water Accountability and Equity Act – its vote in favor was unanimous! And on January 13, 2020, Mayor Jack Young signed the bill into law. Now, Baltimore City residents’ water bills will be permanently affordable for all low-income households.
Our New Research Shows Fracking’s Toll on the Climate
New research by our affiliate organization Food & Water Watch exposes the deceptive spin behind the supposed climate benefits of the switch from coal to fracked gas-sourced electricity.
Our research finds that largely as a result of the fracking boom, methane emissions from fracked gas used for electricity have an even greater climate impact than the CO2 emitted at power plants themselves.
The report, Fracking’s Bridge to Climate Chaos: Exposing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deadly Spin, underscores the toll that fracking has taken on clean air, clean water and a safe climate.
Food & Water Watch Is Fighting to Keep Our Food Safe
The Center for Food Safety and Food & Water Watch have filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration’s dangerous new rules that undermine food safety inspection in pork slaughter plants. The new rules will effectively eliminate the federal inspection of pork carcasses. Instead, slaughter plants will be allowed to essentially police themselves.
Did you know that right now, the meat and poultry industries are legally able to knowingly sell products contaminated with salmonella bacteria? We’re fighting to change this. We’re petitioning the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), to issue a new rule that bans dangerous salmonella strains from meat.
Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director
Food & Water Action and Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Action and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Watch, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate. This email was sent to [email protected] - and we're glad you got it, because it's one of the most important ways you can reclaim political power, hold elected officials accountable and resist corporate control.
