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Farm Bill Expiration Jeopardizes Key Programs
Even if the government miraculously opens for business tomorrow, several critically important USDA conservation and nutrition programs will be shuttered.
Obama Faces Key Decisions About Ethanol
President-elect Obama's support for biofuels faces a few early tests, including a decision on whether to provide more aid to the corn ethanol industry, which critics say already gets too big a piece...
S. Dakota’s energy boom: Is it too much too soon?
Mitchell Daily Republic, Austin Kaus Excerpts: But some people have concerns about the state's rapid progress of energy development.
Pollution Credits Are Hot Issue in Climate Bill
Des Moines Register, Phil Brasher Excerpt: A bill passed by the House last month would set caps on greenhouse gases and require polluters to have permits for their emissions.
Ethanol’s Federal Subsidy Grab Leaves Little For Solar, Wind And Geothermal Energy
As Congress and the incoming Obama administration plan the nation's next major investments in green energy, they need to take a hard, clear-eyed look at Department of Energy data documenting corn...
House Farm Bill: A Missed Opportunity for Leadership and Real Reform
On balance, this House farm bill will be remembered as a missed opportunity for reform of federal farm policies that are broken at their core. It also represents a failure of House leadership to serve...
America's Food-to-Fuel Gamble
When the Bush administration and Congress required gasoline refiners to blend in 15 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol by 2015, they made the impossibly rosy assumption that American farmers would...
Short Crop
Black farmers receive between one-third to one-sixth of the benefits under major federal crop subsidy programs that other farmers receive, and the “subsidy gap” has widened over the past decade.
Dead in the Water
For over 20 years, scientists have documented the appearance of a summertime "Dead Zone" that all but obliterates marine life in what is arguably the nation's most important fishery, the Gulf of...
Farm Subsidy Direct Payment Analysis
For decades, the farm subsidy lobby has claimed that if the producers it represents could earn their living in the marketplace, support provided by taxpayers through periodic "farm bills" could be...
Cover Crops Shouldn’t Force Coverage Loss
One of the better tools that conventional row crop farmers can use to increase the environmental health of their land is to plant “cover crops” of legumes and grasses. These help control erosion...
Ask EWG: What is "fragrance"?
Question: Is it true that the cosmetics industry can put any chemical into a product's "fragrance" without showing it on the ingredients list? What do they put in there? Answer: It's true. When you...
You just lost an excuse to buy bottled water
You're at the airport. You remembered your refillable water bottle and got it through security by draining its contents in the security line (can't take 'em through full).
Coming soon: EWG's Skin Deep mobile app
You asked for it, and we're building it: a mobile shopping app for EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database.
Will Black Farmers Finally See Justice?
Today (Feb 15th) may be the President's Day holiday, but for the president of the National Black Farmer's Association (NBFA) it's the culmination of a remarkable push to bring justice to thousands of...
Another Argument Against Ethanol
The ethanol industry is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to increase from 10 percent to 15 percent the amount of ethanol that is blended into gasoline, saying it will boost demand, create...
Ethanol Eyes Only
The tirade that House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota recently delivered accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of sinking the corn-ethanol industry has many of us in...
The Other National Debt
You hear plenty of talk about the ballooning federal deficit created by tax cuts, two wars and the effort to dig out of the economic meltdown, but precious little about the funding gap that's...
Gulf Dead Zone Cause and Cure: Remarks by Craig Cox
Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico watershed informational slides.
Covering Corn - We're All Doing It
This year, the New York Times reports, both farmers and the federal government are covering corn at potentially record levels. Farmers are struggling to store this year's bountiful corn harvest, even...
Tea For Me, Not For You
A day after the Senate Agriculture committee passed its version of the 2013 farm bill, the House committee did the same.
Flame Retardant Chemicals Harm Conception and Pregnancy
Flame retardants found in everyday consumer products such as furniture could decrease a woman's fertility, and ability to conceive and have a healthy delivery, new research from the Harvard T.H. Chan...
How to Breathe Safer as California Wildfires Rage On
The wildfires spreading through California are leaving behind unimaginable devastation, including some of the most polluted air ever recorded in parts of the state.
Toxic Chemicals in Your Child’s Car Seat
Parents do a lot of research before they buy a car seat. They want to know, how does the seat perform in crash tests? What's its safety record? How will it protect my child in case of collision?
