After a leak earlier this year that caused the emergency release of 215 million gallons of contaminated water directly into Tampa Bay, Florida environment officials are now suing the old fertilizer plant responsible for the damages.
The USDA issued a recall notice on nearly 43,000 ground beef products sold nationwide. The contamination was found during a routine check conducted by food safety officials.
Rosanna Esparza, 59-year-old Latina and community organizer for Clean Water Action, is posted in Taft, California, a town that's built on one of the largest oil fields in the nation. Esparza continues to speak out against the lack of transparency within the industry, the reckless distribution of pollutants, the silencing of those who raise questions and poisoning of low income people to inflate others' gluttonous wealth.
In the latest food contamination debacle, The National Beef Packing Company, a firm based in Liberal, Kansas, recalled more than 50,000 pounds of ground beef because it may be contaminated with E. coli, according to Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) who made announcement yesterday.
