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Fracking Harms Won’t Respect Town Boundaries
Earlier this month, a New York appellate court upheld a lower court ruling that cities and towns in New York state have the right to ban drilling and hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas...
Cut Crop Insurance, Not Conservation and Nutrition
This ought to be simple. While farm income is at record levels, 47 million Americans are struggling with hunger and millions of acres of wetland and prairie are being lost forever.
We Need Safe Cosmetics Reform Now!
We need safe cosmetics reform now! Mercury in mascara? Lead in lipstick? Scientific studies have shown that many common personal care products contain dangerous chemicals. EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics...
Many Farmers Seeking Conservation Help Get Turned Away
FDA Proposes Warning Labels on Tanning Beds
The federal Food and Drug Administration has proposed new regulations that would require tanning beds to bear warning labels and tighten agency controls on their operations.
Reject Farm Bill Bait and Switch
Here's the bottom line: Both farm bills proposed this week (May 13) by the House and Senate Agriculture committees would cut funding for the hungry and the environment to help boost subsidies for the...
Conservation Success Story: The Grotberg Farm
Dick and Linda Grotberg began their transition to sustainable farming largely by accident.
Worth Protecting
Today, on the eve of farm bill consideration by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, EWG is launching an unprecedented campaign to remind Congress that our land, our food, our families, and our farms...
Hail to the Chiefs
Six former chiefs of USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service today (May 7) urged the leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees to once again require farmers to adopt basic...
Conservation Success Story: The Ingram Farm
A smart man learns from his mistakes, Terry Ingram likes to say, but a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Taxpayers Get Soaked to Prop Up Farm Income
Federally subsidized crop insurance is now the most expensive program supporting farm income, so it's no surprise that it will be at the center of the Senate Agriculture Committee's deliberations on...
EWG 2013 Farm Bill Platform
Does Crop Insurance Expand the Racial “Subsidy Gap?”
Every American should be angry over the false claims being made against a fund designed to help black farmers who were the victims of long-standing discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Does Frac Sand Harm Public Health?
As drilling operations for natural gas and oil in the U.S. have expanded into shale and other unconventional underground formations, so has the list of public health threats associated with hydraulic...
Livestock Feedlot Facts Should be Public
When Are Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes "Superbugs?"
Last week, the Environmental Working Group released a report analyzing antibiotic resistance of bacteria detected in supermarket meat. We unearthed data buried deep in the annual report of theNational...
When Are Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes "Superbugs?"
Our report struck at nerve at FDA. The agency issued a statement calling it “misleading” and “alarmist.” You can read our full response here. Essentially, the FDA argued that antibiotic-resistance to...
Better Bug Killers Through Farm Bill Reform
Could the Farm Bill be an opportunity to promote better bug killers?
Where is the Scrutiny of Crop Insurance Fraud?
Minnesota Congressman Colin Peterson (D-Minn.) struck a nerve this month when he said that “there is five times as much fraud” in the federal crop insurance program as there is the Supplemental...