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One profit-lovers pizza, please, hold the calorie count.
March 7, 2018

‘Big Pizza’ is Lobbying Congress to Put Profit Ahead of Public Health

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

Major pizza chains and convenience stores are fighting the federal menu labeling law in a bid to hide calorie counts.

Menu at movies
February 6, 2018

Counting Calories? New Lawsuit Will Make Restaurants Show You the Stats

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

Earthjustice goes to court over Trump’s illegal delay on nutrition labels.

In New York, home to these Autumn trees, a novel state tax reform proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo taps into a little-known but powerful climate opportunity — the carbon-soaking power of agricultural and forest land.
January 29, 2018

How One Tweak to New York’s Tax Code Could Save Forests, Cut Emissions and Help Rural Communities

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

New York State has an opportunity to show how climate change can be fought through agriculture by incentivizing farmers and forest owners to sustainably manage trees that sequester CO2.

Chris Teachout, a fifth-generation farmer, examines the quality of his soil, which he keeps healthy by planting cover crops on his farm in southwest Iowa.
November 1, 2017

A New Crop of Ideas for Fighting Climate Change

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

Agriculture can be a force for environmental health. Here's how.

corn field
June 6, 2017

The Major Food Waste Problem You Haven't Heard About

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

America wastes millions of acres of land through inefficient food production.

Earthjustice has filed a lawsuit challenging a rule that allows thousands of novel, untested chemicals to be used as food additives without FDA review.
June 1, 2017

FDA Allows Secret, Untested Chemicals into Our Food

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

Earthjustice has filed a lawsuit challenging a rule that allows thousands of novel, untested chemicals to be used as food additives without FDA review.

A new vision for agriculture would eliminate wasteful land use and make carbon sequestration an agricultural product.
April 18, 2017

Food 2.0: Working Toward Greater Efficiency in Agriculture

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

A new vision for agriculture would eliminate wasteful land use and make carbon sequestration an agricultural product.

water pollution
April 13, 2017

Water 'Too Thick to Drink, Too Thin to Plow'

By Peter Lehner  /  Northeast Office

Without strong environmental safeguards, the interests of polluters will trump public health every time.

Wild American buffalo graze in the grasslands of South Dakota.
March 31, 2017

Study Shows Wildlife Habitat Is Disappearing in Favor of Crops for Biofuel

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

A new study shows that the renewable fuel standard has had an unwanted side-effect: millions of acres of lost wildland.

A toxic herbicide just won EPA approval despite posing serious risks to human health and wildlife.
March 24, 2017

Enlist Duo Is Back Again, so We’re Back in Court

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

A toxic herbicide just won EPA approval despite posing serious risks to human health and wildlife.