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What’s Driving Deforestation?

Land ownership and economic power are extremely unequal, and so is the responsibility for deforestation. We need to focus our efforts on the drivers that are most important.

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Cold Storage Operators Gear Up For Summer

Maintaining cold warehouses in the hot summer months requires massive amounts of energy. So, what are refrigerated warehouse operators doing to use that energy responsibly?

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Pallet Solutions Concerns Expand Beyond Sanitation And Sustainability

Food supply chain requires more customized pallet solutions.

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Amazon To Expand Private Label Food Offerings

The first of the brands could begin appearing on Amazon’s site as soon as the end of the month or early June, said one source.

Port Communities Fight Investment In Port Infrastructure

Community groups and local activists say unchecked seaport expansion has damaged coastal ecosystems and is choking some of the most densely populated zip codes with dangerously high emissions from trucks, trains and ships entering the ports.

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Environmentalists Petition Olive Garden To Improve Sourcing And Labor Practices

Darden’s Spokesman Rich Jeffers told The Hill Olive Garden listens to the preferences of its guests and will continue to evolve to address their needs.

More than 130,000 people signed a petition generated by the Good Food Now campaign — a partnership of Friends of the Earth, Restaurant Opportunities Center United, the Food Chain Workers Alliance, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Green America and the Animal Welfare Institute.

FDA Re-Evaluates ‘Healthy’ Food Definition

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

An FDA spokeswoman, Lauren Kotwicki, said in an email Tuesday that the agency believes "now is an opportune time to re-evaluate the regulations concerning nutrition content claims, generally, including the term 'healthy,'" in light of evolving research.

The FDA currently allows use of the term 'healthy' on packaging only when products meet certain nutrient criteria.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro Calls On FDA To Close Dole Salad Facility Over Listeria

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

The outbreak spans the U.S. and Canada, was ongoing from May 2015 through spring this year and sickened at least 33 people.

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee responsible for funding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said Dole’s continued operation of the plant was “an outrage.”

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Ocean Carriers Mull Carbon Emissions Rules

The shipping sector, like aviation, was excluded from any target cuts under last year's Paris climate deal, which set a goal of restricting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the U.N. agency responsible for regulating pollution from ships, forecasts CO2 emissions from vessels rising anywhere between 50 percent and 250 percent by 2050 in its 'business as usual' case, as economies grow and trade increases.

Target Cracks Down On Suppliers, Invests $5 Billion In Supply Chain

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The moves, effective May 30, are the first major steps Target has taken since Mulligan was appointed as COO late in 2015 to fix supply problems that emerged after it expanded product offerings, including fresh food, several years ago.

Fairway Market Seeks Reorganization In U.S. Bankruptcy Court

Fairway Group Holdings Corp. and certain of its subsidiaries have filed a joint prepackaged Chapter 11 plan of reorganization and filed voluntary petitions for protection under Chapter 11.

Fairway Group Holdings Corp. and certain of its subsidiaries have filed a joint prepackaged Chapter 11 plan of reorganization and filed voluntary petitions for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Diesel Prices Continue Upward Movement In 2016

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel increased 6.8 cents, hitting $2.266 in the U.S. Despite a string of price increases this year, the price is still 58.8 cents cheaper than it was in the same week last year.

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel increased 6.8 cents, hitting $2.266 in the U.S. Despite a string of price increases this year, the price is still 58.8 cents cheaper than it was in the same week last year.

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