Health

In a decision made public late Friday, a Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association violated Washington campaign finance disclosure laws by shielding the identities of major corporate donors funding efforts to defeat a food labeling initiative in Washington.

If Norfolk Southern "can pay for lobbyists and politicians, they can pay to clean up the mess they made in our community," said one local group.

A report by the Environmental Working Group reveals that an estimated 2,000 untested chemicals, several of them known or suspected carcinogens, are legally present in conventional packaged foods sold in U.S. supermarkets. But this major public health concern is largely unrecognized by the Food and Drug Administration, which operates under a policy on food additives dating back to 1958.

Over 130 food companies have all committed to policies that detail concrete improvements for chickens, McDonald's stands out in its refusal to join this momentum.

Booker will face stiff opposition in Congress, where most members remain publicly opposed to legalization.

Lack of governmental oversight of factory farms has created a public health crisis of antibiotic-resistance diseases in people.

The public needs to be better informed of the potential risks of the numerous herbicides sprayed onto our food supply.

This Thanksgiving, let's support, celebrate and share the amazing bounty that dedicated farmers like Lee Jones produce — for us, for the land and for the future.

Actually, it’s not America that should receive a grade for the response to Covid-19. It’s Trump, of course, whose response to this threat has been pathetic and a catastrophe.

Federal help available to states for upgrading water systems is a drop in the bucket compared to what is needed across the country.