New York is facing an affordability crisis rooted in a deeper problem: too many essential systems are controlled by distant corporations. This has left residents with high grocery and energy costs, ...

Chain dollar stores are inundating America’s communities. In both small towns and urban neighborhoods, they are edging out locally owned businesses, freezing out entrepreneurs, and shifting profits ...

Click on image to download the fact sheet. As lawmakers have grown increasingly serious about addressing Amazon’s harms, Amazon has sought to portray itself as beneficial to independent small ...

Netanel Hutman undertook a review of the recent literature on single-stream recycling collection systems for the Waste to Wealth Initiative at ILSR. The following are conclusion from this review.

Rooftop solar saved not just panel owners, but all California customers $2.3 billion on utility bills in 2024, according to a blockbuster new report. The study found that the rooftop panels saved ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed suit against Amazon for monopolizing e-commerce in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. This explainer looks at why the lawsuit was filed and what it seeks to ...

The food waste crisis continues to spoil progress for communities across the United States. The current burn-and-bury paradigm emits harmful pollutants, perpetuates environmental injustice, and ...

In the past several months, journalists in major publications such as Forbes, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the New York Times and Mother Jones have concluded that recycling rates have ...

Since 2000 US investment in single stream recycling collection and processing has dominated the landscape. Leading industry analysts declared, “the future of US recycling is a five letter word C H I N ...

ILSR has conducted a sweeping investigation that reveals Amazon has quietly become a major force in how cities, counties, and school districts purchase basic supplies — and that its tightening grip is ...

In 43 metropolitan areas and 160 smaller markets, Walmart captures 50 percent or more of grocery sales, our analysis of 2018 spending data found. In 38 of these regions, Walmart’s share of the grocery ...

To illuminate how consolidation shapes food access, ILSR created an interactive map that shows food deserts alongside the location of different types of grocery stores — independent, small chains, ...