COVID-19 has led to unprecedented food waste and breakdowns in supply chains, but innovative solutions at the local, state, and federal levels show us a way forward to a post-pandemic world with less waste and more resilient, efficient supply chains.
Americans cooking at home these days are putting a higher value on good food. Europeans love quality food and support strong food safety rules. We should push our regulators to follow Europe’s lead and ensure our food is safe and nutritious.
The changes in America’s production of waste during COVID give us an opportunity to reevaluate the waste problem in our country as a whole and develop effective strategies that protect our environment.
Yesterday we released the 2020 edition of our report Safe for Swimming?, which finds that, all too often, there are unsafe levels of pollution at our beaches. But the report also shows something positive: There's a wealth of environmental data available for understanding water quality at the places we swim.
Frontier Group helped Environment America Research & Policy Center and Clean Water for All produce a factsheet on water pollution from industrial meat and poultry processing plants that dump huge volumes of pollution into America’s rivers, threatening our health and harming our environment. Despite Clean Water Act requirements, the EPA has refused to update decades-old pollution standards to protect the public.
Our annual ranking finds that cities across the country are expanding their solar power capacities. When a good idea gains momentum, widespread public support and policy innovations follow.
When my husband and I decided to move from Baltimore to northern California when our son was two years old, we weren’t thinking about air quality. My husband had a new job opportunity that would allow us to live closer to family, and so we jumped. But as I’ve worked on air quality issues in recent years, I’ve come to realize that perhaps one of the biggest benefits of our cross-country move is that we reduced our exposure to air pollution.
On May 19, 2015, a rupture in an onshore pipeline transporting oil from offshore drilling platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel to onshore refineries spilled 120,000 gallons of crude oil on the California coastline. This pipeline rupture is representative of how the production, transportation and processing of oil and natural gas offshore can affect the health and well-being of people, wildlife and the environment onshore.
Testimony of R.J. Cross, Frontier Group policy analyst, at a hearing on examining discrimination in the automobile loan and insurance industries before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Testimony of R.J. Cross, Frontier Group policy analyst, at a hearing on examining discrimination in the automobile loan and insurance industries before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
