Food Systems and Public Health Fellow Rebecca Pereira wrote for the Concord Monitor on how New Hampshire farmers are adapting to unstable weather. Small changes help, but many worry they won’t be enough as climate conditions worsen. www.concordmonitor.com/2026/07/17/c...

Can New Hampshire farms weather extreme heat without withering and heavy rains without washing away? - Concord Monitor

Learn how farmers in New Hampshire are adapting to climate change through innovative techniques like wick irrigation and well drilling.

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Food Systems and Public Health Fellow Miranda Lipton wrote for City Limits @citylimitsnews.bsky.social on how NYC can keep food moving during crises. CLF’s Roni Neff @rneff1.bsky.social is quoted. citylimits.org/nycs-food-li...

NYC's Food Lifelines: Building a System That Can Withstand Crisis - City Limits

Experts say the question isn’t simply whether New York has enough food. Building resilience happens long before the next emergency arrives.

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Food Systems & Public Health Fellow Melody Schreiber reports for The Guardian on the growing threat of the new world screwworm as it spreads into the U.S. Illegal cattle trafficking is a major driver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Experts warn of ways screwworm could spread in the US and new difficulties in keeping it at bay

Scientists worry that current eradication efforts won’t be able to contain parasitic infestation pushing into US

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New Unconfined episode: Host Christine Grillo interviews Jessica Knurick, RD, PhD, on #MAHA tactics and debunking claims from the Make America Healthy Again movement. clf.jhsph.edu/maha-movemen...

Fellowship highlight: ’26 fellow Neema Ebeledike profiled Ashley Kirk and Planted Foods in Sacramento, where plant-based comfort food is made more accessible for Black communities. www.theobserver.media/health/entre... @sacobserver.com

Entrepreneur Ashley Kirk Rewrites Script On Black Nutrition

Ashley Kirk’s Planted Foods café and catering company serves convenient, whole-food, plant-based comfort meals engineered around and holistic Black health.

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Fellowship highlight: ’25 fellow Nina Elkadi @ninaelkadi.com & CLF’s Tom Philpott @tomphilpott.bsky.social co-authored a @politico.com story on how Iowa’s water quality crisis is becoming a public health and fairness issue with political consequences. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘Cancer Doesn't Care What Party You Belong To’: Poisoned Water Is Turning This Rural State Bluer

Democrats see an opening in rural states for the first time in decades. In Iowa, it’s about water.

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Ten journalists from this year’s cohort of the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists spent four days learning about Maryland’s food system through farm visits and expert presentations. clf.jhsph.edu/stories/jour...

In June, CLF and Meatless Monday joined the International SBCC Summit in Panama City, sharing how they’ve adapted Meatless Monday to promote healthy, plant-forward choices through TV, social media, youth outreach & university dining.

CLF’s Dave Love @davelove.bsky.social wrote commentary in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on the need to improve diet quality and build more sustainable food systems. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Six years ago, CLF released Growing Solutions, a doc on farmers, ranchers, and educators meeting agriculture’s challenges. On the new episode of Unconfined, 5 panelists + director Leo Horrigan join host @tomphilpott.bsky.social to discuss regenerative ag & more. clf.jhsph.edu/unconfined-p...

A new CLF study found that New York’s City’s updated food standards helped to shift government agency menus toward plant-based options associated with lower greenhouse gas emissions. clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/new...

New York City’s Revised Food Standards May Help to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) evaluated the impact of local food policies on population and environmental health.

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FS & PH Fellowship for Journalists ’25 fellow Marin Scotten published a piece in @sentientmedia.org on manure digesters & their potential to power data centers, along with the environmental & economic tradeoffs. CLF’s @brent_f_kim is quoted. tinyurl.com/yh4fa67j

Cow Manure Could Be the Next Data Center Fuel

The manure-to-energy field has a new sales pitch. Critics warn it could mean even more factory farms.

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Food Systems & Public Health Fellowship for Journalists Highlight: ’26 fellow Sarah Kaplan’s @washingtonpost article shows how the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s algae problem reflects a larger environmental crisis driven by ag runoff & pollution. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Why Trump’s algae problem is much bigger than the Reflecting Pool

In his battle to clear algae from the water by the Lincoln Memorial, the president has overlooked the real causes of unsightly — and often dangerous — algal blooms.

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Food Systems & Public Health Fellowship for Journalists Highlight: ’26 fellow Sarah Kaplan’s @washingtonpost.com article shows how the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s algae problem reflects a larger environmental crisis driven by ag runoff & pollution. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Why Trump’s algae problem is much bigger than the Reflecting Pool

In his battle to clear algae from the water by the Lincoln Memorial, the president has overlooked the real causes of unsightly — and often dangerous — algal blooms.

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New report in collaboration with SiX & CAFS, State Legislation on Animal Agriculture: 2024–2025 Policy Trends, examines animal agriculture-related bills across all 50 states during the 2024–2025 legislative sessions. clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/new...

Food policy councils are vital local infrastructure. As CLF’s Karen Bassarab notes in @civileats.com, cutting them weakens a city’s ability to respond before food problems become emergencies. civileats.com/2026/06/22/c...

Cities Are Dismantling Their Food Policy Councils As Need Increases

These local organizations expand food access, coordinate emergency responses, and improve public health. Now they’re in danger.

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Animal welfare is in the spotlight, with voices like @ezraklein.bsky.social and @nickkristof.bsky.social joining the conversation. Professor Paul Locke says meaningful change won’t be one-size-fits-all, but shifting industrial agriculture is a sensible place to start. tinyurl.com/4tr2j5k5

The MAHA movement promotes more meat consumption, but could it reinforce industrial livestock production? CLF’s Brent Kim says Americans’ insatiable appetite for animal foods exceeds what nature-based approaches can sustainably supply. www.thenewlede.org/2026/06/maha...

MAHA’s CAFO conundrum

In its push for more meat eating, MAHA faces a challenging truth: current and future meat demand depends almost entirely on massive, concentrated animal feeding operations, CAFOs.

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@ezraklein.bsky.social’s NYT piece about agricultural efficiency and the Save Our Bacon Act cites CLF research. Multiple CLF surveys have found most Americans want stronger oversight of confined animal feeding operations and many support a ban on new ones. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Opinion | What the Cult of Efficiency Costs Us

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Residents of a Pennsylvania town fought a beef processor after its waste polluted their wells. Meat-processing waste can contain contaminants such as pathogens and chemicals that may pose health risks — CLF’s Chris Heaney. grist.org/accountabili...

Blood in the well: One town’s fight against the slaughterhouse polluting it

Residents of a Pennsylvania town took on a beef processor after its waste polluted their wells. They won — but little may change.

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Grocers are leaning hard into the protein trend, but CLF’s Daphene Altema-Johnson says protein sources vary in nutrient profile and long-term health impact. talkbusiness.net/2026/06/the-...

The Supply Side: Grocery business responds to GLP-1 use - Talk Business & Politics

The rising use of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs is reshaping consumer spending, which impacts food retailers and suppliers. About 1 in 8 U.S. consumers use drugs that reduce appetites and curb...

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New Unconfined Episode! Managing attorney of the Antimonopoly Counsel, Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social, breaks down how the companies dominating food & agriculture have grown too powerful & why that matters for all of us. clf.jhsph.edu/unconfined-p... #publichealth

EHE/CLF’s Keeve Nachman @keevenachman.bsky.social and EHE’s Peter DeCarlo found serious air pollution health risks in Louisiana fenceline communities, confirming community concerns that those risks had been underestimated. magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/measuri... #EnvironmentalJustice

The Poison Next Door: Measuring Risk in Cancer Alley | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine

Louisiana’s Cancer Alley has a long history of lax environmental regulation of petrochemical industries. Can better data make communities safer?

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Living near pig farms linked to higher risk of antibiotic‑resistant infections. Overuse of antimicrobials in agriculture can create hard‑to‑treat pathogens that affect workers and spread to communities. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why farm workers need protection from antimicrobial resistance

Antibiotic use in agriculture threatens the health of workers and their communities, but there are potential solutions.

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A former federal meat inspector warns that a Trump-era USDA proposal to speed up slaughterhouse lines could mean greater pollution. CLF’s Patti Truant Anderson says the poultry surge would need 114 billion L more water yearly and emit 2 billion kg CO2. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

'A matter of life and death': USDA proposal draws concern from former inspectors

"We need advocates and real laws that have teeth."

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After 12 years supporting food policy councils, Johns Hopkins’ Food Policy Networks (FPN) project is transitioning to an independent entity. Rooted in deep listening, research, and trust-building, FPN’s next chapter will expand its mission and reach. clf.jhsph.edu/stories/fpn-...

Announcing the 2026 Food Systems & Public Health Fellowship for Journalists! Learn more about the program and check out their bios.https://clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/news/news-2026/johns-hopkins-center-livable-future-announces-2026-cohort-food-systems-and #FoodSystems

Proposed faster poultry line speeds have climate and resource impacts. CLF analysis of USDA projections shows a potential extra 2 billion kg CO2 per year. insideclimatenews.org/news/0705202...

Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem - Inside Climate News

Reacting to Trump administration proposals calling for higher-paced processing, critics say protections for workers, animals and food safety are not the only concerns.

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NEW CLF study used an agent-based modelto testmeat-reduction strategies in Baltimore. Findings show combined retail interventions have a larger effect than individual actions. clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/new...

Maryland’s poultry industry backed an emergency bill to roll back CAFO oversight, but advocacy groups stopped it, with help from CLF. A win for protecting community health. clf.jhsph.edu/viewpoints/s... #MDPolitics #Environment #CAFOs