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Cooking Through Winter's Bitter Bounty
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EWG Seeks Answers About Loophole in Proposed New York Fracking Plan
EWG is requesting records from New York officials to shed light on a potentially glaring loophole in the state's draft plan for regulating high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the event that Gov...
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Toxic Fire Retardants Are Everywhere in Homes, New Studies Find
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Farm Businesses Should Not Have Been Granted the Right to Pollute
A New York Times headline this month (Nov, 13) read: “The Problem is Clear: The Water is Filthy.” It should have read: “The Problem is Clear: Agriculture Granted the Right to Make the Water Filthy.”
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Calif. Boosts Funding Opportunities for a New Generation of Sustainable Farmers and Local, Healthy Food
It's a new day for those who have felt poorly served by California's chief food and agriculture agency.
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Cell Phone Radiation May Alter Brain, DNA
New research by Russian scientist Igor Belyaev, Ph.D., and Turkish researcher Nesrin Seyhan, Ph.D., shows that radiation emitted from portable devices may damage DNA and disrupt the process of DNA...
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Race, Class, and Climate Change in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy ravaged much of the eastern seaboard, leaving some dead, many without shelter, and all of us wondering how such an event could happen. What we realized, though, is that we can no...
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Hit farm bill reset button to cut deficit, protect land
Democrats in Iowa tried hard to turn Congress' failure to pass a federal farm bill into a political liability for their Republican opponents. It didn't work.
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Congress Should Not Pass a Lame Duck Farm Bill
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Drilling Rigs: Not So Pretty In Pink
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Another View: Congress should pass a fiscally responsible farm bill extension
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Meet the New Dust Bowl, Same as the Old Dust Bowl
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Farm Bill: More for Millionaire Farmers, Less for Poor Kids
With high crop prices, high land prices and guaranteed business income thanks to federal crop insurance, farm businesses are doing very well, thank you very much. The Bloomberg news service reports...
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Farm Bill Extension: Support Stewards, Not Insurance Subsidies
With only five legislative weeks left, Congress must vote to extend the farm bill, but it must do it in a way that reflects the nation's spending priorities, supports family farmers and protects the...
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Dairy’s Downward Spiral a Consequence of Broken Biofuels Policy
California dairymen are being regularly referred to suicide hotlines as many go broke from rising feed costs, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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Fresh Start Needed on Overripe Farm Bill
If there was one message from yesterday's voting, it's that taxpayers – regardless of party – are worried about the nation's economy and finances.
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Can Obama Depend on Dependent Farmers?
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EWG, Public Citizen Seek Court Backing for S.F. Cell Phone Radiation Law
The Environmental Working Group and Public Citizen have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to support a San Francisco law that would require cell phone retailers to distribute a...
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Regulation Works
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