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Dive Brief: New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer is calling for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Tyson Foods for making misleading disclosures to investors by "flagrantly misrepresenting its poor pandemic response." Stringer asked for the probe in a letter sent to the SEC Tuesday.  As comptroller, Stringer is investment advisor and a trustee of the five New York City Retirement Systems, which are substantial long-term Tyson shareholders. He said the company's 10-K form was "misleading and inaccurate" because it didn't assure investors that issues reported e...

Inside Clean Energy: The Solar Boom Arrives in Ohio Overwhelming demand is turning the state into a solar hotbed, despite a decade of policies hostile toward renewables. December 17, 2020 Solar photovoltaic power plant farm installation on Long Island, New York. Ohio now ranks 28th in the country in installed solar capacity, but ranks 14th in projected new capacity coming online in the next five years. Credit: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Related By this time next year, it is likely to have more than 400 megawatts. And if every project that has filed papers with state ...

Share it For months, food companies and trade groups have been sending letters and lobbying state and federal officials to secure vaccine prioritization for food workers in manufacturing plants.  "Worker absenteeism remains a concern in manufacturing facilities, posing a threat to the maintenance of consistent inventories of life-sustaining products," Michael Gruber, vice president of regulatory and government affairs at the Consumer Brands Association, wrote in a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Without early vaccinations, the CPG sector risks the absence of skill...

/ Meatpacking plants were among the first coronavirus hot spots in Missouri. Across the country, at least 45,000 workers in these plants have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the Food and Environment Reporting Network. More than 200 have died. Annessoir Annelus — a refugee and pillar of the Haitian community — was one of them. For the 27 years that he lived in the Kansas City area, Annelus never lost his connection to his home country, Haiti. And he passed that connection down to his kids, going so far as to bribe them, if needed. "We used to love going to Amer...

The next U.S. agriculture secretary must rebuke the meat industry Neal Barnard, Another View contributor Trump declares meat plants 'critical infrastructure' during coronavirus Replay Video UP NEXT More and more, it’s clear just how troubling the meat industry is. It endangers the lives of workers, produces products that cause heart disease and cancer, contributes to climate change, and keeps animals in deplorable conditions until they are killed. Now, a lawsuit is alleging that managers at a Tyson Foods plant in Iowa were betting on how many workers would contract COVID-19...