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Crop Insurance: A never-ending disaster
As the cost of crop insurance has ballooned – from less than $500 million a year in the 1990s to more than $14 billion in 2012[1] – the program's most ardent defenders keep repeating the same mantra...
At the Gym: Foam Pits Filled with Fire Retardants
A landmark study led by Courtney Carignan of the Dartmouth Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research has found that the blood of 11 female collegiate gymnasts ages 18...
EWG Lab Test, HBO Documentary Highlight Toxic Risk of Fire Retardants
Bipartisan Coalition Would Link Land Conservation to Farm Subsidies
From Sea to Shining Sea: Subsidy Millionaires Are Everywhere
World Series of Subsidies
Untapped: Farm Bill Conservation Programs Must Do More to Clean Up California's Water
Hundreds of millions of conservation dollars in the federal farm bill should be used more effectively to address widespread water pollution problems in California, concludes a new report by...
Should Foxes Build the Hen House?
Guest Blog: Toxic chemical reform must help, not hinder states and victims’ rights
In the United States, the framework for safeguarding people and the environment against the dangers of toxic chemicals comprises three mutually reinforcing legal systems: federal regulation, state and...
True Horror Stories Of Cosmetic Dangers
People will go to great lengths to be “beautiful,” and cosmetics companies know it. It was not until 1938 that Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which gave the FDA power to act...
Virgin Prairie Goes Under the Plow
Happy Direct Payments Day?
Means Testing Rich Farmers
Doesn't it make sense to subject some of the richest farmers to a means test when they seek federal subsidies to pay for their crop insurance?
Calls for Crop Insurance Reform and Environmental Protections Get Louder
Staunch Advocate For Genetic Engineering Urges GMO Labeling for Food
Mark Lynas, maybe the most famous apologist for GMO foods ever, this week urged a gathering of food and biotech industry employees to stop battling the growing movement to label foods made with...
It’s Only Fair: Protecting the Land in Return for Subsidies
The pending Senate version of the farm bill includes a provision to relink conservation compliance with crop insurance subsidies. Chairman Lucas's competing House version does not.
Lose Your Lunch: Congressional Food Fight Imperils Food Safety
The Food and Drug Administration's food inspectors have also been deemed non-essential – meaning that America's food manufacturing plants will not be inspected until Congress decides to pass...
Farming Isn’t a Requirement to Claim Farm Subsidies
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Tuesday (Oct. 8) found that of the $1.5 billion in farm subsidies doled out in 2012 to people who were supposedly “actively engaged” in farming...
Let’s Fix America’s Broken and Unfair Energy System
It is essential to take fully into account the long-term risks and costs to health, environment and communities of all energy resources and to adopt policies based on least cost to consumers and...
Government Shutdown Puts Public Health at Risk
What's worth denying even a single child with cancer available and potentially life-saving treatment? Nothing – in my book. By shuttering the federal government, the Tea Party wing of the House of...