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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...
Food & Water
Water

Consider the Source

The first ever nationwide assessment of chlorination byproducts in drinking water, released by the Environmental Working Group and U.S. Public Interest Research Group, shows that more than one hundred...

Greening Santa's Workshop: Eco gifts in the blogosphere

Now that it's December, I feel safe discussing gifts. Just because my neighbors turn on their life-size candy canes before Thanksgiving doesn't mean I have to think about holiday gifts before the...
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water
Food

Much Ado about Giving Consumers What they Want

Over the past year, industrial produce growers and pesticide makers have made much ado about EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, which assembles federal testing data on many fruits and...
Energy
Midwest
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Farm Subsidies
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Food & Water

Top 10 Things You Should Know About The Farm Bill

The Environmental Working Group knows that you care about the affordability and availability of healthy food and clean drinking water. So we wanted to make sure you know as much as you can about the...
Energy
Midwest

Did They Really Say That? See for Yourself.

Life would be so much easier for biomass industry executives if they didn't have to worry about their own words.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Michael Pollan Talks Subsidies on the Daily Show

Michael Pollan made an appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart Monday night to promote his latest book, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual. He came out swinging at Big Ag and the subsidies doled out...
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

For Farmers, Expected Costs of Climate Bill Are Still Minimal

In October, EWG released a report that questioned the misguided claims made by farm lobby organizations and their patrons in Congress who are arguing that climate change legislation would cause...
Energy
Midwest
Farm Subsidies

Biofuels, Agriculture and the Environment

Remarks by EWG Midwest Vice-president Craig Cox to the 2009 Kansas Natural Resources Conference. Read the Remarks
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

OSHA Outsources Worker Safety to Chemical Industry

In the latest example of industry riding roughshod over the government, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has entered into a so-called Voluntary Protection Program with the...
Food & Water
Food

School Lunches: Where’s the Broccoli?

First Lady Michelle Obama's noble fight against childhood obesity cannot be won unless members of Congress act boldly this spring and vote to give school lunches the healthy makeover that our kids...
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Who Will Say No to Obama's 4 Million Acres in Conservation Cuts?

By Craig Cox, Environmental Working Group Senior Vice-president and manager of EWG's Ames, Iowa, office. The debilitating cuts to US Department of Agriculture conservation programs proposed in...
Energy
Midwest

Sound Science and Obama's Biofuels Working Group

By Craig Cox, Environmental Working Group Senior Vice President and manager of EWG's Ames, Iowa, branch. On Wednesday (Feb. 3), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated its Renewable Fuel...
Energy
Midwest

Is the Ship Starting to Turn Around On Energy Subsidies?

The third in AgMag's series of looks at the Obama budget is a hopeful one. First we examined attempts by the Administration to limit the taxpayer-funded payments that ensure profits for the wealthiest...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Budget Freeze Focus Turns to Farm Subsidies

Tonight, President Obama will announce a budget freeze as part of his State of the Union address. The New York Times' Jackie Calmes described today (Jan. 27) what specific programs will be hit: "The...
Energy
Midwest

Corn Ethanol Sprawl Evicts Wildlife from the Midwest

“Our research shows that native grassland is being converted into cropland at an alarming rate throughout the Prairie Pothole Region,” said Greg Fogel, study co-author and MS/MPP candidate at the...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food

Will Big Corn Call Katie Couric a Flake Too?

The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric aired a piece on Thursday (Jan. 8 ) called Where America Stands on Obesity. The report cites many factors for the nation's current obesity epidemic, including...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Rep. Michele Bachmann -- Having it Both Ways?

A flurry of blog postings in the last two days have pointed out that the conservative Minnesota congresswoman, who has regularly attacked President Obama's health care and foreclosure relief proposals...

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Food

Putting Our Money Where the Mouths Are

The Great Recession is being felt in America's stomachs, the government reports. Nearly one in seven American households had trouble putting enough food on the table at some point in 2008, according...
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

USDA Research: Does No-Till Really Capture More Carbon?

The Agriculture Research Service (ARS) of the US Department of Agriculture released a surprising bit of climate change-related research on Tuesday, work that suggests that getting big cuts in...
Conservation

Climate Change Cage Match: EWG vs. Farm Bureau

Crying Wolf, EWG's recent report on current climate change legislation, convincingly debunked exaggerated claims that a cap-and-trade system to limit greenhouse gases will increase costs for the...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Endless Injustice for Black Farmers

It's now a done deal. After Congress in July rebuffed several attempts by Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) to win funding for an agriculture disaster aid package that would send generous checks to...
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food

Mission Organic Made Easy

With its new blog, Mission Organic Made Easy, the Boulder, Colo.-based Organic Center (TOC) delivers on its promise to communicate all the good reasons to eat food devoid of harmful agrichemicals and...