Today, Food & Water Watch attorneys representing 13 groups appeared in court in a landmark lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to effectively regulate factory farm ...

Until EPA Acts on Factory Farm Pollution, Rural Communities Won’t Be Safe Without EPA action, factory farm pollution will continue to threaten communities like Nancy’s and David’s. That’s why Food & ...

The water in the river, which had turned dark blue on June 18, has since been cleaned up by the suspected companies.

DuPont Co. has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that was filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of residents in ...

Amid central Iowa’s lawn-watering ban, Gov. Reynolds said regulating the agriculture industry is not the answer to Iowa’s ...

Factory pollution is changing the weather—but not in the way you might think. The tiny aerosol pollution particles poured out by industrial factories can trigger ice to form in the atmosphere ...

In communities living next to factory farms, residents have long voiced their concerns about environmental pollution. Now, research shows that not only can we see the air pollution generated by ...

The factory farm industry also benefits from sweeping exemptions under the Clean Water Act, which has helped make agriculture the leading source of US water pollution.

The EPA last month denied a 2017 petition to strengthen regulations on factory farm pollution. The agency is instead forming a study group to make recommendations, which could delay enforcement until ...

Meanwhile, Xinhua said 88 per cent of the 238,000 factories identified by the Government as sources of pollution had brought down the level of discharges as required under the new regulations ...

Plumes of pollution from large factories can trigger snowfall and leave holes in clouds that stretch over large areas, satellite images have revealed. It has long been known that tiny particles of ...