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Is giving our drinking water legal personhood the best way to protect it?

02.16.2021
Sam Bloch
New Oregon legislation would put a moratorium on building mega-dairies. What happens next?
01.21.2021
by H. Claire Brown
Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen. Big Booze wants to keep it that way.
12.01.2020
by Jessica Fu
Unsafe to drink: Wildfires threaten rural towns with tainted water
11.24.2020
by Rachel Becker
Company accused of selling juice with high arsenic levels to school lunch program has long history of rodent issues and poor sanitary practices
11.12.2020
by Jessica Fu
Good public-health news, for once: Far fewer kids are “heavy drinkers” of sugar-sweetened beverages than in the early aughts
10.01.2020
by Jessica Fu
Why aren’t distilleries making more hand sanitizer? Because FDA forces them to make their alcohol undrinkable first
04.06.2020
by Leigh Kunkel
As restaurant profits plummet during Covid-19 panic, state regulators start allowing home-delivered cocktails
03.17.2020
by Sam Bloch
AB InBev, Bud Light’s parent company, is accusing MillerCoors of stealing its beer recipes
10.18.2019
by Jessica Fu
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