If you’re involved in an existing composting initiative or interested in supporting composting in your community – whether you are a composter, hauler, regulator, policymaker, local business, urban or ...

ILSR's Sue Holmberg discusses her Power Play report outlining the ways monopolies exploit systemic racism and how communities ...

Now that the lengthy legal beef has been settled and New York’s Affordable Broadband Act (ABA) is set to take effect this month, it marks a potentially pivotal moment in a national effort to address ...

What is Local Self-Reliance? Local self-reliance means that we, the people, are free to exercise power over our lives — how we provide for our families, how resources are shared and allocated in our ...

Our team fights the unchecked power of corporate monopolies and champions policies that level the playing field for small independent businesses. In The Atlantic, Stacy Mitchell explains the true ...

“Much of Walmart’s market dominance can be attributed to its use of this illegal and anti-competitive tactic,” says Stacy Mitchell WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 17, 2025) – Stacy Mitchell, co-executive ...

Hundreds of changemakers and activists attended States and the Future of Antitrust: How State Policymakers Can Take On Monopolies and Rebuild Local Economies in 2025 and Beyond, a virtual event hosted ...

UC Davis professor Andrea Cann Chandrasekher shares her research into consumer redlining, the practice of retail chains providing lesser service in poor or BIPOC neighborhoods.

During Jimmy Carter’s presidency –– on March 28, 1979 –– one of the two nuclear reactors at the Three Mile Island nuclear complex near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania partially melted down. Within days ...

In December, Stacy Mitchell spoke at the Federal Trade Commission’s workshop, “Competition Snuffed Out: How Predatory Pricing Harms Competition, Consumers, and Innovation.” The workshop was designed ...

For decades the U.S. grocery industry was remarkably competitive, with independent grocers thriving alongside large chains like Kroger and Safeway. Virtually every neighborhood and small town had a ...

In Maryland, the grants could total more than $14 million per year to support local governments, small businesses, non-profits, farmers, schools, and more in their efforts to advance wasted food ...