What They Say About EWG's Work
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Sowing Seeds of Victory
Roll Call, Anna Palmer Published July 7, 2008 Dressed in a dark pinstripe suit with a blue striped shirt and tie, John Boyd Jr. looks the part of Washington insider.
Small percentage of rural counties contribute to fertilizer pollution
Chicago Tribune, Andrew Martin Published April 9, 2006 A new study on Monday found that a relatively small percentage of rural counties – many of them in Illinois – are contributing most of the...
New EWG Analysis Says Nitrogen Pollution a Fixable Problem
Farm Futures, Jacqui Fatka Published April 9, 2006 Nitrate pollution in the Mississippi River Basin is a growing problem, creating a Dead Zone downstream for marine wildlife. A new analysis from the...
More than half of US streams polluted: EPA
Reuters Published May 4, 2006 More than half of US streams are polluted, with the worst conditions found in the eastern third of the country, according to a study by the Environmental Protection...
U.S. Farmers Should Curb Fertilizer Runoff: Study
Reuters Published September 10, 2007 U.S. farmers should be required to control soil erosion and fertilizer runoff from all land eligible for crop subsidies -- which would be a major expansion of...
Lobbyists Lining Up For Shot at Climate Bill
The Hill, Jim Snyder Excerpt: Meanwhile, environmental groups are focusing on another delicate issue: carbon offsets.
EWG Comments on the California Air Resources Board Climate Change Proposed Scoping Plan
With these comments, EWG directs the California Air Resources Board's attention to deficiencies in the Climate Change Proposed Scoping Plan with respect to agriculture. At present, the Plan...
Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill’s Passage
Behind the thin green gloss Congressional leaders spread across the subsidy-laden 2008 farm bill, key Democratic lawmakers are hacking away at promises to expand conservation and other environmental...
Needlessly Pitting Kids Against Conservation
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark) today (March 17) unveiled legislation to reauthorize child nutrition programs and increase nutrition funding by $4.5 billion over 10...
After Hong Kong, Redraw America's Farm Subsidy Map
Trade ministers from over 100 nations along with thousands of negotiators gather in Hong Kong this week under the auspices of the World Trade Organization for a round of talks that was intended to...
Power Drain
Every year, the Central Valley Project moves more than 2 trillion gallons of water - about 18 percent of California's fresh water supply - to thousands of farms in the state's arid heartland. Massive...
Into the Mouths of Babes
Atrazine, the most heavily used herbicide in the United States, is a cancer-causing weed killer applied to 50 million acres of corn each year. After it is applied each spring, it runs off cornfields...
BPA: What FDA doesn't know could hurt you
One of the unwritten rules of public relations is, if they're running you out of town, get out front and say you're leading the parade. That's one way to read the American Chemistry Council's...
Cut Spending – But Not My Farm Subsidies!
That some members of Congress are farmers is hardly new. Many of the Founding Fathers worked the land. But as the industrial age transformed America's agrarian society and technology made it possible...
Yes We Can - And Should - Make Our Food Safer
We're all used to hearing Big Food and Big Ag brag about America having "the safest food supply in the world," usually as a warm-up for complaining that EWG and other critics of our food system are...
Large Farms To Reap Subsidy Windfall
A controversial White House pledge to spend $1.5 billion to retroactively compensate farmers for 2009 crop losses -- and thereby boost the reelection prospects of Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche...
Shelf Life Theory Has Short Expiration Date
The large, industrial growers of corn floated a trial balloon recently (July 20) in an attempt to justify continued taxpayer subsidies that have totaled $73.8 billion since 1995 for the ubiquitous...
More Potential Giveaways to Ethanol in Energy Bill
In an bid to garner support for legislation to address the looming danger of climate change, Midwest senators are reportedly pressing to attach a long-term extension of biofuel tax breaks to a Senate...
$600 Million for BP -- Courtesy of US Taxpayers
2010 won't be all lemons for BP. Sure, the company will be best remembered for blowout preventers, top kill and Tony Hayward, but along the way the oil giant stands to make a killing from its...
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Farm Subsidy Database
The decades-old momentum behind federal farm subsidies delivered $13.4 billion to farmers in 2006, according to the latest update of the Environmental Working Group's Farm Subsidy Database website...
Greenwashing Corn
Starting this week (June1) in Washington, DC, the National Corn Growers Association and its affiliated state associations are rolling out a $1 million ad campaign to boost corn's tarnished image. It's...
Harvesting Taxpayers for Disaster Payments
The 2008 farm bill included a new program to replace ad hoc disaster appropriations that have averaged $2 billion per year in recent years. The Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE) Program...
