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EXPERTS Act Would Restore and Modernize the Federal Regulatory System, Which Has Been Corrupted by Trump, Courts, and Corporate Lobbyists

EXPERTS Act Would Restore and Modernize the Federal Regulatory System, Which Has Been Corrupted by Trump, Courts, and Corporate Lobbyists For Immediate Release: November 19, 2025 Contact: David Rosen, drosen@citizen.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – Leaders of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards endorsed the EXPERTS Act, reintroduced today by U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and 69 cosponsors […]

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Poll: 71% of Voters Support Strong Regulation to Protect the Public

Poll: 71% of Voters Support Strong Regulation to Protect the Public Poll Shows Overwhelming Bipartisan Support for Regulation Protecting Workers, Public Health, Our Environment For Immediate Release: Nov. 17, 2020 Contact: David Rosen, drosen@citizen.org, (202) 588-7742 Rachel Weintraub, rweintraub@consumerfed.org, (202) 904-4953 Ethan Winter, ethan@dataforprogress.org, (603) 227-0491 WASHIGNTON, D.C. – More than seven out of 10 […]

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USDA Must Protect Communities From Mass Animal Killings

By Valerie Baron, Natural Resources Defense Council Shutdowns at industrial slaughterhouses due to the COVID-19 crisis have caused backlogs of animals throughout the U.S. that cannot be slaughtered for food because there simply isn’t capacity to process them. As of June 26, 2020 there were COVID-19 outbreaks at more than 250 meatpacking plants, and more than 28,000 meatpacking […]

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New Dietary Guidelines Could Help Us Kick Our Sugar Habit — But Will Science Win Out?

By Sarah Reinhardt, Union of Concerned Scientists For the last sixteen months, top health and nutrition experts have been hard at work reviewing the scientific research that will inform the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Yesterday, via webcast, they finally shared the fruits of their labor. Though some of their findings were a foregone conclusion (most […]

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COVID-19 Spreading to Food Processing Facilities Across the U.S.

By Jared Hayes and Braelyn Parkman, Environmental Working Group Although not yet as pervasive as outbreaks at meatpacking facilities, COVID-19 is on the rise at America’s food processing facilities. EWG’s search of news stories published from March 14 to June 8 found that almost 1,200 food processing workers at 60 plants have been infected by the […]

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Investing in Dietary Guidelines Will Leave Us Better Prepared for the Next Pandemic

By Sarah Reinhardt, Union of Concerned Scientists As US cases of COVID-19 near 1.7 million, we continue to learn more about the nature of the disease, including the factors that influence susceptibility to COVID-19 and the severity of symptoms. Some of these risk factors, like age and certain health conditions, are beyond our ability to control. Others, we […]

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New Trump Executive Order Sells Off the Ocean and Fails Coastal Communities

By Miriam Goldstein and Alexandra Carter, Center for American Progress The United States is in the midst of a health and economic crisis. Yet instead of taking critical action to help the millions of suffering Americans, the Trump administration continues to push forward its anti-environmental agenda. Among its many harmful actions, the administration has relaxed enforcement of regulations for polluting facilities, replaced clean […]

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With Trump Executive Order, Are Meat and Poultry Plants a COVID-19 Ticking Time Bomb?

By Rebecca Boehm, Union of Concerned Scientists On April 28, President Trump issued an executive order directing slaughterhouses and meat and poultry processing plants to remain open as critical infrastructure. The order noted that these facilities should follow CDC guidelines to protect workers from COVID-19. However, the guidelines in the order were described as voluntary, and no enforcement mechanism […]

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Now Is the Time to Improve SNAP for Food Insecure Families

By Sara Imperiale and Margaret Brown, Natural Resources Defense Council As of January 2020, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) served more than 37 million people. More than 80 percent of recipient households are families with children, seniors, or those with a disability, and households in poverty receive the vast majority of benefits. With staggering reports of job […]

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Investigation: Counties With Meatpacking Plants Report Twice the National Average Rate of COVID-19 Infections

By Sarah Graddy, Soren Rundquist and Bill Walker, Environmental Working Group Counties with or near meatpacking plants have almost twice the rate of known COVID-19 infections as the national average, according to a geospatial analysis by the Environmental Working Group. Based on cases reported by Johns Hopkins University as of May 6, EWG’s analysis found that counties […]

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Work Conditions Make Farmworkers Uniquely Vulnerable to COVID-19

By Melanie Benesh and Jared Hayes, Environmental Working Group Depending on the season, an estimated 1 million to 2.7 million workers, mostly undocumented, toil on the nation’s farms. Without farmworkers, the American food system would collapse – and during the coronavirus pandemic, they are especially essential to ensuring that food arrives on grocery shelves. But farmworkers are especially at […]

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