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Environmental group: Target U.S. aid at most polluted waters in Iowa
Des Moines Register , PHILIP BRASHER Published May 29, 2009 Washington, D.C. - Government conservation money in Iowa should be targeted to farms in areas that pollute the Mississippi River basin and...
EWG and Allies Urge Defeat of Biofuels Green House Gas Analysis Exemption
On behalf of our millions of members and activists, we strongly urge you to oppose the Emerson Amendment (#019) and any other attempts to sidestep the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) process...
Senate Cuts Would Shave $5 Million From S.D. EQIP Funds, Group Says
Daily Republic, Seth Tupper Published September 24, 2008 South Dakota stands to lose $5.268 million of federal funding that was pledged by the farm bill toward a popular conservation program...
Time's running out to comment on water contract negotiations
Federal regulators are negotiating an agricultural water contract in the Central Valley, the latest of several dozen deals that could tie up water resources for the next 50 years. Thursday is the...
The California Water Wars: Water Flowing to Farms, Not Fish
After 50 years of legal infighting, a victor has emerged in California's water wars -- agriculture. A decade after environmentalists prevailed in getting more fresh water down the north state's rivers...
The Most Politically Powerful Welfare Recipients in the World
He was immortalized in Grant Wood's 1930 painting "American Gothic": a grim, hardscrabble stoic in overalls, grasping a pitchfork. Guess what? It wasn't really a farmer. It was Wood's dentist posing...
Toxic runoff disposal could imperil water
U.S. agency offers 3 options; critics prefer retiring farmland San Francisco Chronicle, Glen Martin Published November 1, 2005 A pending decision on the disposal of contaminated wastewater produced by...
Session will look at water contracts
Feds reopen talks after criticism from environmentalists. Fresno Bee, Staff Published January 14, 2006 Federal officials are reopening negotiations on the renewal of some farm water contracts after...
Cities and farmers fight over water rights
United Press International, Staff Published January 15, 2006 BIG SKY, Mont. -- Environmentalists, fishermen and city officials are challenging the farmers and ranchers who have long controlled water...
Tide of Sentiment Shifts in Water War
Traditional Favoritism to Agricultural Interests Is Challenged as Demand Increases Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin BIG SKY, Mont. -- A hundred years after the city of Los Angeles and San Fernando...
Subcommittee Evaluates Water Law
How well a rewrite of an important federal law related to environmental uses of water is working was expected to be aired Friday, March 24, at a Central Valley workshop. The Water and Power...
Ag Groups Want Water Allocation Change
Capital Press Agricultural Weekly, Chip Power A handful of the Central Valley's influential agricultural interests pleaded with a congressional panel to roll back portions of a 14-year-old federal law...
Midwest Floods Bring New Opposition to Ethanol
Devastating floods and bad weather in the Midwest are raising the tide of opposition against the renewable fuels standard. Groups that have been pressing lawmakers to reconsider federal supports for...
Ethanol Positions Affected Rural Vote
Corn grower Tim Recker says Barack Obama's relatively strong showing in rural Iowa should provide a warning to both parties: Attack ethanol subsidies at your peril.
Congress Not Done With Farm Bill
The 2008 Farm Bill has barely left the lot and Congress has pulled it back into the garage for some tinkering. The U.S. Senate has proposed $331 million in cuts to a series of conservation programs...
EWG Comments on the California Air Resources Board Climate Change Proposed Scoping Plan
Environmental Working Group is a research and advocacy nonprofit with considerable expertise in U.S. agriculture. We are perhaps best known in agriculture policy circles for our Farm Subsidy Database...
After Two Decades of Agricultural Disaster Aid A Chronic Dependency Takes Root
September 2006 Pressure is building in Congress for pre-election enactment of the most expensive emergency agricultural disaster aid bill in history.
Gorillas in the Bay: Time to Face Facts in the Chesapeake
Press coverage last week of the latest federal proposals to clean up the Chesapeake Bay was good. But, an important piece of the puzzle was missing from the discussion.
Midwest Floods Bring New Opposition to Ethanol
Environment and Energy Daily, Allison Winter Devastating floods and bad weather in the Midwest are raising the tide of opposition against the renewable fuels standard.