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Revolutionizing cold chains: New study reveals potential to slash global food...

A University of Michigan study highlights the transformative impact of fully refrigerated food supply chains on global food waste and greenhouse gas emissions.

New study finds $1 trillion worth of food waste generated per...

The study is a global estimate on food waste at retail and consumer levels and helps to provide "guidance for countries on improving data collection and suggests best practices in moving from measuring to reducing food waste."

Methane emissions from food waste alarmingly accelerate climate crisis

As EPA reports highlight the staggering methane emissions from food waste, the U.S. grapples with an overlooked environmental hazard.

About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the...

And when food goes bad, the land, labor, water, chemicals and energy that went into producing, processing, transporting, storing and preparing it are wasted too.

EPA releases first-of-its-kind report on food waste

Despite pledging to cut food loss and waste in half by 2030, the U.S. is far from reaching its goal.

Get dumped food to the hungry

In America, the so-called wealthiest nation on earth, tens of millions go hungry while food is dumped because no one in government can get it together to get it to them.

Global food waste higher than previously estimated, new study reveals

Global food waste is a much bigger problem than previously thought. A new study confirmed that people waste more than twice as...

A 10-step plan for the world to cut food loss and...

Nearly a third of all food produced in the world goes uneaten each year, yet 1 in 9 people is undernourished.

Reducing food waste can protect our health, as well as our...

Reducing food waste can address two major problems facing humanity today: cost of food waste and the impact on the health of our people and our planet.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 24

Congressman and his wife plead not guilty to campaign spending charges, Kroger to phase out plastic bags, and more.

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Elon Musk’s billionaire welfare: How the world’s richest man built his empire on government...

An extensive Washington Post investigation has revealed a very different reality—one where Musk’s business empire has been deeply dependent on taxpayer money.

We’re seeing the beginnings of mass noncompliance

But just last week we saw the first glimmer of what mass noncooperation can look like—and it created some new cracks in the Trump-Musk administrative coup. 

Ocasio-Cortez blasts GOP for letting Elon Musk kill drug pricing reform

She slammed the Republican Party for allowing Elon Musk to derail bipartisan drug pricing reforms, calling the move a clear example of oligarchic control over American politics.

Trump-appointed official plans to cut Social Security workforce by 50 percent, closing field offices...

Acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek orders mass layoffs, raising concerns of service collapse and benefit delays for millions of Americans.

Sanders and others introduce Social Security Expansion Act to protect seniors, people with disabilities...

The legislation would apply the Social Security payroll tax on income above $250,000 to ensure Social Security is fully funded for the next 75 years.