YOUR FOOD & WATER WATCH AT WORK
ACTION SHOT!
Photo by Evan Clark
Rain or shine, Food & Water Watch marches to make polluters pay!
Earlier this year, we rallied in Altadena, California, along- side community leaders and members, and allies to support the Make Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act. This Act would require fossil fuel corporations to pay their fair share for costs
related to climate-related disasters they’ve contributed to, such as the January Eaton Fire in Los Angeles County. The Eaton Fire was one of the most destructive wildfires in the state's history and hit Altadena particularly hard.
So far this year, the Act passed out of the California Senate Environmental Quality Commit- tee and the Assembly’s Natural Resource Committee. This is people power in action!
FEATURED VICTORY
Thank you for saving Swampbuster!
Scan this QR code to read your fall quarterly victories update and see more of your impact. fwwat.ch/fall25wins See More of Your Generosity at Work! and together, we saved a bedrock environmental law. Thank you!
and protect vital wetlands. Yet a lawsuit filed last spring, CTM Holdings, LLC v. U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture , tried to end Swampbuster. Food & Water Watch’s legal team and our allies, represent- ing a group of farmers and their families, won a motion to inter- vene late last year to defend Swampbuster in court. In late May, a federal judge ruled in our favor — we won! Because of you, sustainable farmers had a voice in a case that directly impacts them,
Swampbuster is a longstand- ing environmental program that encourages sustainable farming and safeguards clean water. It makes federal funding available to farmers who responsibly steward their land
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