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January 2025
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Victory: Making Climate Polluters Pay!
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After months of relentless pressure from Food & Water Watch and allies, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Superfund Act into law! Now, Big Oil & Gas must pay $3 billion a year to fund climate projects in the state. This is a much-needed first step to hold Big Oil accountable for its outsized role in the climate crisis. But this is only the beginning. In 2025, we’re fighting to pass similar bills in states across the country, starting in California, Maryland, and New Jersey. Learn more about our biggest campaigns for 2025 and how you can get involved!
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Fighting Factory Farms!In December, the Food & Water Watch New Mexico team hosted a webinar on the state’s Clean Transportation Fuel Standard (CTFS). The program, meant to support climate solutions, actually gives benefits to polluting factory farms that endanger our communities and climate. Thanks to this webinar, four New Mexico news outlets featured our work, including local radio station KUNM. This was a fantastic kickoff to this year’s campaign to amend the CTFS, end benefits for factory farms, and ultimately stop factory farms statewide.
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Victory! We Blocked A Grocery Mega-Merger!In December, a federal judge blocked Kroger’s plan to buy fellow grocery giant Albertsons in response to a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission. The suit was based on the agency’s 2023 Merger Guidelines, which incorporated many of our comments! As we see grocery bills climb, this decision will defend families from higher food prices and other forms of corporate greed. Food & Water Watch will continue fighting against monopolies in our food system — including a new proposal for candy giant Mars to buy snack maker Kellanova.
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Renew Your Commitment to a Livable Future!Happy New Year! Thanks to your generosity, in 2024, we stopped a grocery mega-merger, blocked water privatization schemes, made polluters pay, and more. Now, in 2025, we’re doubling down on action. From fighting Trump in the courts and in Congress to organizing for positive change in local communities, supporters like you power our work. Please consider fighting for a livable future by renewing your Food & Water Watch membership today! All gifts will be MATCHED to go twice as far!
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DID YOU KNOW?
Iowa factory farms only paid $750,000 in penalties for illegal manure spills over the past decade. Meanwhile, the state spends an estimated $66 million a year cleaning up Big Ag pollution in public drinking water. The industry is getting away with a slap of the wrist while Iowans suffer. It’s time for lawmakers to protect communities and rein in Big Ag! Learn more about the huge toll of factory farm pollution in Iowa.
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Tomorrow! Join Us for an Author Talk on Wenonah’s Book of the Year!Each year, Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter selects a Book of the Year. Tomorrow, we’re highlighting her 2025 pick: Austin Frerick’s Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry. The author himself will be sitting down with us to discuss his research. We’ll discuss how today’s food industry titans rose to power and helped create America’s unjust food system, as well as how we can fight back. Join us!
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