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The Biden Administration Protects Millions of Acres of Arctic Alaska

Latest NewsAlaskaJenny Shalant
The new Special Areas Rule in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska could boost biodiversity and empower Indigenous Peoples to defend the lands they’ve relied on for generations.
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“Forever Chemicals” Called PFAS Show Up in Your Food, Clothes, and Home

ExplainerUnited StatesMolly M. Ginty, Courtney Lindwall
These toxic chemicals are so common in consumer products and manufacturing that they’re everywhere—including inside our bodies.
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In Planning for Climate Change, Native Americans Draw on the Past

ExplainerUnited States, CanadaTim Vanderpool
Across North America, Indigenous tribes and nations are consulting their traditional ecological knowledge to help prepare for a warming world.

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Campaign Pushes Local Food & Safe Products at Dollar General

Expert BlogAlbuquerque, New MexicoSara Imperiale, Margaret Brown
A delegation from the Campaign for Healthier Solutions attended the 2023 Dollar General shareholder meeting in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. As shareholders, we urged the corporation to phase out toxic chemicals from its consumer products and move forward with sourcing nutritious, locally…

New Yorkers Highlight Opportunities to Grow SNAP Incentives

Expert BlogNew YorkSahana Rao, Margaret Brown, Sara Imperiale
SNAP incentives play an essential role in addressing challenges around fresh, healthy food affordability and access, provide much needed markets for local farmers, and drive local economic development.

Food Work & COVID: Farmworker Solutions for an Unjust System

Expert BlogUnited StatesMarisa Guerrero, Sara Imperiale, Margaret Brown, Sahana Rao

Farmworkers have long dealt with unsafe working and living conditions, low wages and lack of job security, disparate levels of food insecurity, and vulnerable immigration statuses—a dangerous combination of systemic injustices underpinned by racism in the food system. But as…

Growing Community: Reimagining the Future of Food

Expert BlogMarisa Guerrero, Sara Imperiale, Margaret Brown
When we focus only on emergency food programs, we fail to build resilience in disproportionately burdened communities ahead of the next disaster. Local efforts - led by people of color and frontline communities - offer pathways to lead us out…

States Can Leverage SNAP for Healthy Food & Strong Economies

Expert BlogMargaret Brown, Sara Imperiale
Every family has the right to a healthy and varied diet, but in too many communities, fresh produce is not available or affordable. As part of a package of policies that expand and strengthen SNAP in the face of the…

Now Is the Time to Improve SNAP for Food Insecure Families

Expert BlogMargaret Brown, Sara Imperiale
In a moment of crisis for food insecure families, we must expand and make more flexible this essential safety net to ensure low-income individuals can access fresh, healthy food safely.

Now Is the Time to Harness the Power of SNAP

Expert BlogMargaret Brown, Amy Brown, Yvette Cabrera
Congress missed a huge opportunity to help the most vulnerable families and lift the economy at the same time: increasing SNAP benefits so more families can buy groceries.

Campaign Pushes for Fresh, Local Food at Dollar General

Expert BlogAlbuquerque, New MexicoSara Imperiale, Margaret Brown

A delegation from the Campaign for Healthier Solutions attended the 2019 Dollar General shareholder meeting to insist that Dollar General phase out toxic chemicals from its consumer products and source locally grown, fresh produce to better protect the health of…

NY Farm to Food Bank Tax Credit Aims to Help Those in Need

Expert BlogMargaret Brown
The credit will help cover the steep costs associated with harvesting, processing, and transporting crops, making donations a viable option for New York farmers—and getting more fresh food to hungry New Yorkers.

New York Lawmakers Move to Tackle Food Waste

Expert BlogMargaret Brown
The New York State Senate included the Food Donation and Food Scrap Recycling Act in their one house budget proposal—taking a critical leadership role in both addressing climate change and getting more food to hungry New Yorkers.