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Farm Subsidies

Corn Growers Don’t Need the Corn Ethanol Mandate

January 28, 2016

The corn ethanol mandate requires refiners to blend more and more ethanol into gasoline. But there is already a “natural” marketplace demand for ethanol. If there were no mandate, gasoline refiners...

Research

Pesticides in Baby Food

July 1, 1995

To determine the extent of pesticide contamination of baby food, we tested eight foods (applesauce, garden vegetables or pea and carrot blend, green beans, peaches, pears, plums, squash and sweet potatoes) made by the three major baby food producers that account for 96 percent of all baby food sales -- Gerber, Heinz, and Beech-Nut. All samples were purchased at retail from grocery stores in three

EWG’s News Roundup (12/1): Chemicals in Cribs, Investigating the EPA and More

December 1, 2017

EWG's News Roundup (12/1): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (8/20): 10 Ways the Trump Administration Has Made Life More Toxic, Racial Disparities Fueling COVID-19’s Force and More

August 20, 2020

EWG News Roundup (8/20): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG news roundup (7/2): Cover crops planting plateaus across the Midwest, ‘forever chemicals’ legislation introduced and more

July 2, 2021

EWG news roundup (7/2): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Near-Partisan Vote Confirms Pruitt for EPA, Imperiling Public Health Protections

February 17, 2017

The nation's drinking water and air, safeguards against pesticides, and oversight of big polluters are at risk with the Senate's approval today of Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental...

EWG News Roundup (7/30): CAFOs Run Amok in North Carolina, Senate Republican COVID-19 Stimulus Lets Down Farm Workers and More

July 30, 2020

EWG News Roundup (7/30): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (1/29): Solvay Fails to Report PFAS Risk, Coalition Stages Hearing to Hold Duke Energy Accountable and More

January 29, 2021

EWG News Roundup (1/29): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (March 3)

March 3, 2017

It was quite the busy week for the Trump team – with new Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt wasting no time putting his extreme, anti-environment agenda in place.

EWG News Roundup (3/30): Pruitt’s Pesticide Anniversary and $50 Condo, Chemicals Causing Weight Gain and More

March 30, 2018

Roundup 3/30: Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Glyphosate

Monsanto Emails: ‘Let’s Beat the S*** Out of’ Moms Worried About Cancer-Linked Weedkiller

August 28, 2019

A Monsanto executive said he wanted to “beat the shit out of' a mothers' group that urged the company to stop selling its Roundup weedkiller, according to internal emails obtained by lawyers for...

EWG news roundup (5/28): Little progress on cleanup of ‘forever chemicals’ at military bases, a healthy and safe Memorial Day and more

May 28, 2021

EWG news roundup (5/28): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Farm Subsidies

Is the House farm bill a cushion for wealthy?

September 21, 2009

Minneapolis Star Tribune, Kevin Diaz Published July 27, 2007 Do millionaire farmers need a safety net? The question looms tall as a prairie silo over a multitude of controversies fueling congressional...

What Would Grover Norquist say?

July 5, 2011

The Western Farm Press, in a June 29 editorial by Harry Cline, its editor, labeled the Environmental Working Group “tax dodgers.” The headline, “Environmental Working Group dodges taxes on $90 million...

EWG’s News Roundup (3/16): Scrutinizing Stain-Resistant Carpets, Mining the Grand Canyon and More

March 16, 2018

Roundup 3/16: Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG Investigates: Trump’s Agriculture Nominee Brings the Swamp to Washington

March 8, 2017

In his campaign, President Trump promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington. But his nominee for secretary of agriculture, former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, is mired in ethical lapses, self-dealing...

Midwest

EWG News Roundup (9/13): Army Sites Plagued With PFAS, Trump Guts Clean Water Rule and More

September 13, 2019

EWG News Roundup (9/13): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (5/10): Expanding PFAS Contamination Crisis, Golden State Bans Brain Damaging Pesticide and More

May 10, 2019

EWG News Roundup (5/10): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Federal & State Energy Policy

News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (March 10)

March 10, 2017

In another tumultuous week for the Trump White House, alleged corruption, regulatory rollbacks and head-scratching statements reigned supreme.

Research

Taking from the Taxpayers

February 10, 2005

For decades taxpayers have provided subsidized water to California farmers at rates far below fair market value. When the amount of cheap water delivered to farmers was reduced during the severe drought of the early '90s to protect two species of endangered fish, a group of San Joaquin Valley water districts representing some of the nation's biggest farming operations sued the government for

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Utilities

Fossil & Nuclear

Report: Duke Energy Has Squandered Billions in Failed Natural Gas and Nuclear Projects

August 31, 2020

Since 2013, Duke Energy and its partners have scrapped natural gas pipelines and nuclear power plants totaling $11.6 billion, according to a new report by the Environmental Working Group.