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Crop Insurance: A never-ending disaster
As the cost of crop insurance has ballooned – from less than $500 million a year in the 1990s to more than $14 billion in 2012[1] – the program's most ardent defenders keep repeating the same mantra...
Bipartisan Coalition Would Link Land Conservation to Farm Subsidies
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Stop Unrestrained Antibiotic Use Before It’s Too Late
It's just common sense: If you're not sick, your doctor doesn't prescribe you medicine. Why should the animals we eat be treated any differently?
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Programs to Reduce Ag’s Water Use Must Be Strengthened, Not Cut
Since it was first authorized in the 1996 farm bill, USDA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program has grown into the single most important federal program that helps farmers and ranchers protect...
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Unlimited Subsidies, High Prices Threaten “Prairie Potholes”
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The PFAS and the Furious
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Expert Panel Confirms that Fragrance Ingredient Can Cause Cancer
Last month (July 28) a committee convened by the National Academy of Sciences confirmed a federal interagency group's conclusion that styrene, a chemical building block used to produce a wide variety...
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Why Environmentalists (and Every American) Should Reject the House Farm Bill
The budget-busting farm bill approved Wednesday night (May 15) by the House Agriculture Committee and its leaders – Reps. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) – is nothing but bad news...
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Reject Farm Bill Bait and Switch
Here's the bottom line: Both farm bills proposed this week (May 13) by the House and Senate Agriculture committees would cut funding for the hungry and the environment to help boost subsidies for the...
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Duke Energy’s Epic Fails: $11.6 Billion in Scrapped Projects Since 2013
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Where is the Scrutiny of Crop Insurance Fraud?
Minnesota Congressman Colin Peterson (D-Minn.) struck a nerve this month when he said that “there is five times as much fraud” in the federal crop insurance program as there is the Supplemental...
Lawmakers Could Look to Farm Bill for $100 Billion in Additional Budget Savings
EWG's Scott Faber joined representatives of several fiscally conservative organizations in calling on Congress not to slip a full farm bill reauthorization into any legislative package they cobble...
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Crop Insurance: Bad for Taxpayers, Bad for the Environment
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The Audacity of Scope
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Insurance for Corn, Not Kids?
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Really?
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Crop Insurance Subsidy Double Speak
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Subsidy Buffet for Agribiz, Table Scraps for Good Food
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Local Food and The Farm Bill: Small Investments, Big Returns
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Farm Subsidy Research and Analysis
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FRAC Act Re-introduced to Senate
Amid widespread fears that the boom in “fracking” for natural gas poses a growing array of environmental threats, some members of Congress are making a new effort to reverse a 2005 law that exempted...
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The Flip-flopper’s Guide to “Fiscal Conservatism”
Under the best-case scenarios, crop insurance alone is expected to cost taxpayers $9 billion over the next 10 years. So who are the 48 Republicans who voted for this lavish taxpayer funded giveaway?