January 4, 2021
VIDEO: Webinar, November 18, 2020 Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund & Oregon Community Rights Network Lindsey Schromen Wawrin (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund) Mark Pertschuk (Grassroots Change & the Preemption Watch project) Tim Gibbons (Missouri Rural Crisis Center)
October 13, 2019
It’s very easy to be cynical about politics. I can be cynical as well. But seeing policies being guided by a grassroots movement, with people who wanted to make this happen at all levels of power in the city, was inspiring. — Sara Soka, former Campaign Manager, Berkeley vs. Big Soda …
October 8, 2019
Washington Post, Fenit Nirappil, October 7, 2019- A majority of the D.C. Council wants to impose one of the highest taxes on sugary drinks in the nation, driving up the cost of a soda in the capital city. A bill announced Monday would levy a 1.5 cent-per-ounce excise tax on …
August 21, 2019
Express Keeper, Rushikesh Khetmalis, August 19, 2019- According to a team of researchers from Penn Medicine, the consumption rate of sugary drinks dropped by 38%, which is a decrease in purchase of one billion ounces of, that’s approximately 83 million cans of soda, in the Philadelphia area alone. Artificially sweetened, …
August 19, 2019
The Seattle Times, Jim Krieger, August 18, 2019- Seattle is well into its second year of the Sweetened Beverage Tax. Based on what we’ve learned so far, the tax is functioning as intended on its first goal: Growing programs that increase healthy food access and support for child health and …