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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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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 19h
We’re looking forward to hearing from @rachelfrazin.bsky.social and @sharonudasin.bsky.social – who literally wrote the book on PFAS contamination – at this month’s Livable Future Live. RSVP now for a book chat and Q&A on Wednesday at 7PM ET: https://fwwat.ch/3Vij0fi
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 1d
This is how happy we'll be if you join us at the second No Kings Day of Mobilization! We hope to see you there: https://fwwat.ch/nokings2
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 1d
From our own Mitch Jones: “It is poor women and children who will feel the impacts [of this shutdown] first and worst.”

The #TrumpShutdown is anti-accuracy, just like the rest of the administration.
The shutdown is poised to deepen hunger in America — just as the Trump administration stopped tracking it
Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits during the shutdown. The USDA just killed the long-ru
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 1d
"Transgender people do not have full rights in this country ... So they often experience social, economic, political, and health disparities that put them at higher risk when disasters actually hit.”
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 1d
After a hurricane, many people worry about losing power. For trans Floridians, it can mean losing access to lifesaving medication and navigating hostility at disaster shelters. But one woman’s hurricane response team is stepping in:
When a hurricane hits, she shows up for those left behind  » Yale Climate Connections
Trans advocate Jasmine McKenzie is building a lifeline for Black and trans Floridians who often can’t safely access disaster services from FEMA or religious organizations. 
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 1d
An extractive bitcoin mining operation opening right across the street from an elementary school that focuses on environmental education is frustratingly on the nose. 😡
A Bitcoin Mine Came to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and Dafter Township Isn’t Happy - Inside Climate News
The mine’s computers emitted a loud, persistent hum that has, for the time being, been silenced by litigation.
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 1d
The #TrumpShutdown could cost people their utility assistance and even their homes.
Social Security workers say the shutdown has them unable to help with benefit letters
Employees at Social Security field offices say the government shutdown has left them unable to carry out an important se
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 2d
We hope you'll join us to learn from @rachelfrazin.bsky.social and @sharonudasin.bsky.social at next week's Livable Future Live! See you Wednesday evening at 7PM ET: fwwat.ch/3Vij0fi
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Rachel Frazin @rachelfrazin.bsky.social · 3d
Next week, @sharonudasin.bsky.social and I will chat with @foodandwater.bsky.social about our book and the "forever chemical" crisis we chronicle.

Sign up here to join the conversation:

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Poisoning the Well by Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin: an Author Talk [Livable Future LIVE] · Food & Water Watch
Join Food & Water Watch for a virtual conversation with **Rachel Frazin and Sharon Udasin**, authors of *Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America.* Frazin and Udasin’s insightfu...
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 2d
Heat emergencies are just that: emergencies. We need action to help keep people safer.
Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story
Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs
www.theguardian.com
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 2d
For many people, the spending bill is life or death. Do you know how your Senators voted on it? Find out here, and let them know how you feel: fwwat.ch/470mfi1
C-SPAN caller confronts House Speaker Mike Johnson about shutdown effects: 'My kids could die'
The caller, who was identified as a Republican and military spouse, said she would not be able to afford her children's
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 2d
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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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 3d
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 ...
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 2d
Nice! We love when climate progress compounds.
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Assemblymember Diane Papan @asmdianepapan.bsky.social · 3d
Celebrating a great win and my bill to help @caltrain.com financially benefit from the dynamic regenerative braking technology on the new electric trainsets feeding power back to the grid. @pencleanenergy.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
Caltrain getting paid as electrified trains give back to the grid
Caltrain's new all-electrified trains are doing more than just carrying passengers up and down the Peninsula and eliminating diesel exhaust. The trains are giving electricity back to the grid, and the...
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 2d
Energy efficiency can be climate justice!
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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 3d
"Heat pumps help narrow the energy gap between high- and low-income households (that is, the energy equity gap) by making cooling more affordable and indoor environments more comfortable."

Nice new paper in Nature Energy by @destenie.bsky.social and friends.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Heat pumps can help alleviate residential energy insecurity in the USA - Nature Energy
In the USA, households with heat pumps tend to cool their homes earlier, and this adoption helps narrow the income-based disparities in cooling usage. Heat pumps can help to alleviate residential energy insecurity and contribute to making energy more affordable and homes more comfortable, especially in the summer.
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 2d
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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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 2d
We're grateful to these young people for their persistence and commitment to a livable future.
Youth plaintiffs test out a new legal strategy to counter Trump’s support for fossil fuels
They lost their case for a constitutional right to climate protection. Now they’re suing the government again.
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 2d
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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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 3d
GOOD. Now let's back up the data with action.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 4d
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.

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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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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 3d
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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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 3d
These AI data centers are incredibly extractive, and cause so much damage to local communities and to the planet. The Big Tech companies who run them have proven themselves untrustworthy, and we stand with organizing efforts against them!
Los Alamos and University of Michigan Want to Build a National Security ‘Data Center’ in Ypsilanti. Residents and Local Officials See Few Benefits. - Inside Climate News
Local officials allege the University of Michigan is being “deceptive” over its plans for the $1.2 billion “computation
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 3d
We're excited for this talk, and we hope to see you there! fwwat.ch/3Vij0fi
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Rachel Frazin @rachelfrazin.bsky.social · 3d
Next week, @sharonudasin.bsky.social and I will chat with @foodandwater.bsky.social about our book and the "forever chemical" crisis we chronicle.

Sign up here to join the conversation:

www.mobilize.us/fww/event/81...
Poisoning the Well by Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin: an Author Talk [Livable Future LIVE] · Food & Water Watch
Join Food & Water Watch for a virtual conversation with **Rachel Frazin and Sharon Udasin**, authors of *Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America.* Frazin and Udasin’s insightfu...
www.mobilize.us
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 3d
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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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 3d
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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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 4d
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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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 4d
They're industry scams and they're not effective!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d
News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
www.theguardian.com
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 4d
Kids and families are going to pay the price for the #TrumpShutdown.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4d
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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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 4d
In this Pennsylvania town, 71% of tested water samples contained methane. That's one reason we are so vehemently opposed to fracking!
Scientists Find Evidence that a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking - Inside Climate News
Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clea
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