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California grants its livestock industry huge subsidies to capture methane before it reaches the air. Some believe the state must reconsider how it calculates carbon intensities for dairy digester fuels. @TheCounter buff.ly/3GolTmy
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Even with the best intentions, restaurant mentorship programs have an uncanny ability to replicate existing industry problems. Without deliberate adjustments, they tend to reinforce power imbalances between established, senior mentors and junior mentees. thecounter.org/mentors-arent…
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thecounter.org/is-california… Digesters only solve a small part of the methane emissions in the livestock and dairy sector, and only in a small part of production practices. We require other measures that target emissions more directly, for a wider group of settings.
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"Your car is killing coho salmon." Painful to see the final @thecounter newsletter, as full of good work as ever. thecounter.org/coho-salmon-p…
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Via @TheCounter: After a chain grocer closes down, they sometimes use lease provisions called "restrictive covenants" to ensure no supermarket or other food business can ever occupy the space. These covenants help create food deserts. From @LelaNargi: thecounter.org/supermarket-c…
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“I felt there was no one I could turn to.”
Research suggests #racism should be treated as a matter of public #health. But the unique stressors faced by Black farmers remain poorly understood. @imsafiyacharles reports via @TheCounter:
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American dining is an oligopoly dominated by chains | The Counter buff.ly/3FIKn9G @thecounter
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How California climate regulators are distorting progress on greenhouse gas emission reductions while allowing polluters to yield lucrative profits: thecounter.org/is-california…
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SB 464 is unlikely to move this year, but the groups behind #Food4All will continue to work on expanding California’s social safety net to include all undocumented immigrants.
Read more from @TheTinaVasquez: thecounter.org/california-fo…
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Via @TheCounter: Your car is killing coho salmon
Just over a year ago, scientists in Washington identified 6PPD-quinone, which is used to weatherize car tires, as a chemical that is acutely toxic to coho salmon.
READ: thecounter.org/coho-salmon-p…
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Today is the Counter's last official day of operations, but we'll continue to showcase some of our final stories here through the end of next week.
(In case you missed the news: thecounter.org/the-hardest-s…)
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California is double-counting millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the dairy sector, distorting its progress on climate change. New investigation, in partnership with @grist: thecounter.org/is-california…
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Advocates and lawmakers in California wanted the new state budget to reflect a seemingly radical idea: Everyone should have access to food–undocumented or not. 🧵👇thecounter.org/california-fo…
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My final story for @TheCounter.
Researchers and members of the Nisqually Tribe have pinpointed the exact cause of a coho salmon die-off in the Pacific Northwest—a chemical used to weatherize car tires, running off into the watershed. New from @LenaJLBeck: thecounter.org/coho-salmon-p…
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Crucial reporting by @LenaJLBeck, not only on a pollutant affecting salmon runs and Native nations, but also proposed *solutions*
It's a shame to see @TheCounter go.
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"In Greenfield, Massachusetts, Stop & Shop paid a realtor for a decade not to develop a property that might have brought in a competing supermarket. A win-win-win for the grocer; in most instances a lose-lose-lose for the community..." thecounter.org/supermarket-c…
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Researchers and members of the Nisqually Tribe have pinpointed the exact cause of a coho salmon die-off in the Pacific Northwest—a chemical used to weatherize car tires, running off into the watershed. New from @LenaJLBeck: thecounter.org/coho-salmon-p…
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Restaurant mentorship programs sound great on the surface.
But all too often they are PR initiatives for notable restaurants and chefs, without the resources or thoughtfulness that could make the programs valuable for mentees. From @chefjennydorsey: thecounter.org/mentors-arent…
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While California has a history of creating more inclusive policies for immigrant populations, it’s also true that undocumented immigrants are largely blocked from state food assistance programs. This may be changing soon.
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🥫 Could California provide food assistance for all?
The state looks to remove immigration restrictions on food stamps as 45% of undocumented immigrants in the state face food insecurity.
By @TheTinaVasquez/@TheCounter
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