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Fertilizer runoff creates 'Dead Zone' in Gulf
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Bill Lambrecht Published June 14, 2007 There was hope for a cure down in the Louisiana bayous even as the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone expanded like a B-movie blob.
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...
Curb Farm-Payment Excesses
Des Moines Register Published July 14, 2007 Work on the 2007 farm bill comes at an exciting time for agriculture in America. Adding energy crops as a third major source of income, along with food and...
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...
EWG testifies in Congress about cell phone radiation
After we released our report about cell phone radiation, EWG Senior Scientist Olga Naidenko, PhD. testified in the U.S. Senate about our findings. Here she talks with EWG's Chief of Staff, Heather...
Westland's Water Subsidies More Corporate Welfare
Bakersfield Californian, Bill Walker Published October 29, 2005 In his recent Community Voices column, the president of Westlands Water District blasted Environmental Working Group's investigation of...
Cotton and Accountability
With first compliance deadline in WTO cotton decision looming, Brazil explores a novel trade retaliation: suspension of intellectual property rights for U.S. products.
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...
Disaster Aid Fund for Farmers to Get Push
Farm state senators, confronting an increasing struggle to win special disaster assistance for farmers, today will push for creation of a permanent disaster aid trust fund. The Senate Finance...
Addition to climate bill: Cash for no-till farming
Washington, D.C. - Some growers could get payments just to keep farming the way they already are, under changes being made to a House climate bill. Farm groups won provisions in the legislation that...
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...
Farm Bill Conservation Plan Facing Cuts
Argus Leader, Faith Bremner Published September 10, 2008 Senate Democrats are about to renege on an earlier plan to give more money to programs that pay farmers and ranchers to protect wildlife...
Conservation Programs May Get Less Money Than Specified in Farm Bill
Des Moines Register, Philip Brasher Published September 10, 2008 The new farm bill has barely taken effect and the Democrat-controlled Senate is already moving to shrink spending levels for some land...
Watchdog Group, Dean Slam Congress For Proposed Conservation Cuts
Mitchell Daily Republic, Seth Tupper Published September 10, 2008 An environmental watchdog group and a South Dakota outdoorsman slammed Congress Tuesday for proposing legislation that would...
Demand Already Exceeds Funding for Conservation Program That Could Suffer Cuts
Mitchell Daily Republic, Seth Tupper Published September 12, 2008 Hundreds of South Dakotans already are being turned away from a conservation program that could see a pledged funding increase...
Conservation Cuts in Spending Bills Grab Attention of Environmental Groups
Hoosier Ag Today, Gary Truitt Published September 12, 2008 Environmental groups are not happy to see the Senate is already trying to cut spending levels for some of the conservation programs included...
Revamp policy: Stress sustainability
Des Moines Register, Craig Cox Published November 3, 2008 Two recent reports in the Register make it clear that we need to overhaul our biofuels policy.