Winter salt pollution is often discussed as a predominantly ecological issue, but salty drinking water has real impacts on human health. The unequal consequences of those impacts have environmental justice implications that must be understood.
AdkAction Executive Director Sawyer Bailey presented at this year’s National Winter Salt Awareness Week, hosted by Wisconsin Salt Wise. Watch her full presentation below, or on YouTube.
Families across the Adirondacks are gaining new, reliable access to fresh, locally produced food through AdkAction’s Fair Food Card, now coordinated in partnership with Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) offices throughout the region. WIC is a federal nutrition service that supports low-income families with pregnant individuals and young children age
Each winter, road salt helps keep Adirondack roads safe. When the snow melts, that salt can wash into nearby streams and groundwater, where it can persist for decades and harm aquatic life and drinking water supplies. For years, AdkAction has worked with municipalities across the Adirondacks to reduce road salt
During the Covid-19 pandemic, AdkAction offered Emergency Food Packages, which provided free boxes of locally produced food delivered directly to homes across the Adirondacks. But we knew hunger didn’t end there. As the immediate crisis shifted, so did we. By 2021, the initiative had become the Fair Food project, distributing