Food & Water Watch
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Food & Water Watch fights for sustainable food, clean water and a livable climate for all of us. #FightLikeYouLiveHere
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Why is this report on PFNA being kept from the public? The people have the right to know about forever chemicals' risks to our health!
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NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...
www.propublica.org
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Have you signed up for our live chat with @rachelfrazin.bsky.social and @sharonudasin.bsky.social – authors of “Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America” – yet?

RSVP to join us next Wednesday: fwwat.ch/3Vij0fi
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The Trump shutdown is threatening to force kids to go hungry. We need, at the very least, a bipartisan spending bill that protects access to food and clean water.
Millions Of U.S. Children Could Go Hungry Next Week If Trump’s Shutdown Persists
More than 1 in 4 U.S. children under age 5 rely on WIC program for food assistance
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GOOD. Now let's back up the data with action.
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Hard-won good news:

The deadline to begin air monitoring of benzene, chromium and other toxic pollutants emitted from 11 coke plants in w. PA won’t be pushed back after all.

Relentless citizen activism informed by good science 🧪 did this.

Never give up.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0710202...
EPA Drops Planned Delay in Compliance With Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants - Inside Climate News
Residents will no longer have to wait two years to find out whether they are breathing benzene and other contaminants.
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ICYMI: Enormous subsidies to the fossil fuel industry are just some of the many hideous elements of the GOP spending bill. The End Polluter Welfare Act would stop this injustice. Tell your Reps to support it: https://fwwat.ch/4meKK02
U.S. Spending Bill to Grant $40 Billion in Fossil Fuel Subsidies
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We are calling on @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to use his power as Governor to insist that the EPA monitor our drinking water sources for microplastics. Everyone deserves clean water, and regulating microplastics at the federal level is an important step towards that goal.
CA Groups Call on Gov Newsom to Join Microplastics Petition
Yesterday, twenty-five California environmental, climate, and public health groups, in conjunction with Food & Water Watch, sent a letter to Governor Newsom – along with thousands of petitions – calli...
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Follow the money: these higher-ups in the Trump administration have significant ties to Big Ag and the fossil fuel industry. It's not surprising, but it is infuriating.
The Industry Ties Within Trump’s Food and Ag Leadership
Many of the president’s top officials at USDA, EPA, HHS, and FDA have connections to chemical, agribusiness, or fossil f
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URGENT: Tomorrow, the Senate Commerce Committee could vote on an amendment to the Pipeline Safety Act of 2025 which would criminalize protests against pipelines. Contact your Senators TONIGHT and tell them not to criminalize freedom of speech: http://fwwat.ch/4gVlNF2
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Kids and families are going to pay the price for the #TrumpShutdown.
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WIC food assistance program for moms and children could run out of funds under the admin’s shutdown.

"The federal program was due for an influx of funds Wednesday. Now, it may have only enough money to continue normal operations for a week or two.”

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
WIC food assistance program for moms and children could run out of funds if shutdown lasts
The federal program was due for an influx of funds Wednesday. Now, it may have only enough money to continue normal operations for a week or two.
www.nbcnews.com
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From our own Jennifer Breon:
“People in Iowa are angry about it. They want safe drinking water. They want to be able to live in a state where they can feel safe raising children who are drinking the water.”
New data show Iowa's waterways full of toxic nitrates
New data from the National Library of Medicine show nitrates in Iowa's waterways reached toxic levels earlier than scien
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Another way that Big Tech is exploiting our finances and our planet.
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Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
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The electeds behind the #TrumpShutdown don't care that they're taking away food from kids who need it.
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“Research has tied it to lower infant mortality, healthier birth weights, higher immunization rates and better academic outcomes for children who participate. Nearly half of those who are eligible don’t enroll, often because they believe they don’t qualify or they can’t reach a WIC office.”
Government shutdown threatens food aid program relied on by millions of families
Experts say a food aid program that helps 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money unless the government shutdown ends within two weeks.
apnews.com
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Expansion of AI data centers is bad news for our planet and for everyone who lives on it.
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OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades
Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune
Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”
fortune.com
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Pipeline ruptures harm far too many people every year. The PIPES Act would only worsen this, and we call on the Senate Commerce Committee to implement common-sense safety measures.
120+ Groups Urge CO2 Pipeline Safety Updates to PIPES Act 
Senate Commerce Committee will mark up the PIPES Act Wednesday
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