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-foo…

"Your car is killing coho salmon." Painful to see the final The Counter newsletter, as full of good work as ever. thecounter.org/coho-salmon-pa…

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 Tina Vasquez: thecounter.org/california-foo…

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-…

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.

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-st…)

Via The Counter: 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-pa…

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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“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. Safiya Charles reports via The Counter: thecounter.org/black-farmers-…

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-…

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. The Counter buff.ly/3GolTmy