Quickly, a "Lie" Becomes an "Overstatement"
Since the May release of the Environmental Working Group's update of its farm subsidy database, the media have paid a lot of attention to Tea Party candidates for Congress who paradoxically receive...
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Farm Subsidy Recipients Say the Darndest Things
In the month since EWG's 2010 update of our Farm Subsidy Database, subsidy recipients and program defenders have been reacting in interesting ways to the new data. Here's a roundup: Tennessee...
Obama's USDA Less Transparent Than Bush's
The Environmental Working Group has worked hard to track the billions lavished on the wealthiest and largest farm operations in the country, in the hope that releasing the information would spur...
Government's Continuing Bailout of Corporate Agriculture
By Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook Washington paid out a quarter of a trillion dollars in federal farm subsidies between 1995 and 2009, but to characterize the programs as either a "big...
Perdue Chicken Out to Pluck Public Interest Lawyers
Perdue Chicken Chairman Jim Perdue is retaliating against environmentalists -- and their lawyers -- who filed filed suit against the poultry giant and one of its contract chicken farms on March 2 for...
A Climate Bill Halliburton Will Love
Finally, our climate change champions in the U.S. Senate are defending the long-suffering natural gas industry from the latest round of ridiculously burdensome drinking water protections. From what we...
America Needs a True Renewable Energy Policy
Finding ways to reduce fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions while producing enough energy to support economic development worldwide is this century's preeminent challenge. We must meet this...
New Law Lets Black Farmers Seek Claims
Gannett News Service (Detroit Free Press), Doug Abrahms Published June 4, 2008 Robert Harrold missed the 2000 deadline for filing a benefit discrimination claim against the U.S. Department of...
House Farm Bill: A Missed Opportunity for Leadership and Real Reform
Statement of Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson, Ranking Member Bob Goodlatte, members of their committee, and their staffs, are to be...
New Light Shed on Farm Subsidy Payments
Associated Press (+ over 200 outlets), Sam Hananel and Mary Clare Jalonick Published June 11, 2007 From Texas billionaires to Washington lobbyists, it's no secret that wealthy people can get federal...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Study Challenges Biofuel Numbers Game
Whoops. A study in the journal Science today got widespread news coverage by pointing out a major flaw in the way the world has been calculating the impact of biofuels use on the atmosphere's...
Senator Cardin Offers Hope for the Chesapeake Bay
Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced legislation today aimed at reducing pollution that has endangered the Chesapeake Bay watershed for over 25 years. The Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem...
Gulf Dead Zone Cause and Cure Known, Action Still Required
Remarks by Environmental Working Group Midwest Vice-President Craig Cox to the Mississippi River Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force Public Meeting.
Study: Contaminated Water Consumed
Associated Press, John Heilprin Published January 8, 2002 Millions of Americans have been drinking tap water contaminated with chemical byproducts from chlorine that are far more than what studies...
State's water imperils mothers, activists say
Chicago Sun-Times, Gary Wisby Published January 9, 2002 Chlorination of tap water puts thousands of Illinois women at risk of miscarriage or birth defects, according to a report released by...
Report Says Pacts Give More Water to Farmers
Fresno Bee, Mark Grossi Published March 17, 2005 The federal government is promising 43% more water for California farmers in new irrigation contracts, meaning new dams would have to be built in the...
Report Criticizes Water Subsidies
Sacramento Bee, Jim Wasserman Published August 1, 2005 A national environmental group critical of farm subsidies said Tuesday that more than 1,200 Central Valley farms received federally subsidized...
EWG Says California Growers Double-Dipping on Subsidies
Agriculture Online Published August 2, 2005 The Environmental Working Group today released the results of a computer study that looked at federal crop and water subsidies to California's Central...