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In 2014, Vermont became the first state to pass a standalone mandatory GMO labeling law, which will go into effect July 2016. Connecticut and Maine have also passed GMO labeling laws that will go into effect once neighboring states pass similar laws. Over 30 states have introduced similar GMO labeling legislation in the past three years. In response to these state efforts, legislation intended to preempt mandatory labeling at the state and federal level – dubbed the Deny Americans the Right to Know, or DARK, Act - was passed by the House of Representatives in July 2015. Similar legislation was defeated in the Senate in March 2016. On July 7, 2016, the Senate passed compromise legislation introduced by Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) that would preempt state labeling laws but create a national, mandatory GMO labeling standard for all GMO foods.
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...
Subcommittee Evaluates Water Law
How well a rewrite of an important federal law related to environmental uses of water is working was expected to be aired Friday, March 24, at a Central Valley workshop. The Water and Power...
Midwest Floods Bring New Opposition to Ethanol
Devastating floods and bad weather in the Midwest are raising the tide of opposition against the renewable fuels standard. Groups that have been pressing lawmakers to reconsider federal supports for...
Big Bucks and Bigfoot Flow Through Washington
Bay City Times, Jeff Kart Published January 22, 2009 With The New Guy in office, billions, as in dollars, seems to be the buzzword. When it comes to the environment, that money could come in handy.
Addition to Climate Bill: Cash for No-Till Farming
Des Moines Register, Philip Brasher Published June 26, 2009 Farmers who already conserve carbon in the soil by not plowing it could qualify for the new credits to keep them from breaking up the land...
Support for Climate Bill Could Fray
The Hill, Jim Snyder Excerpt: An environmental group is mounting a fresh assault on the climate change legislation that squeaked through the House and faces an uncertain future in the Senate, raising...
Nutrition Calculator for Cancer Prevention
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables can help reduce your risk of cancer. See how your diet stacks up.
The Trouble With Farm Offsets
The New Republic, Bradford Plumer Excerpt: The Environmental Working Group recently analyzed the House climate bill and noted that the legislation allows farmers to earn credits under the cap-and...
EWG and Allies Urge Congress Not to Weaken Requirements for Renewable Biofuels
Including indirect land-use change emissions in the life-cycle assessment of greenhouse gases from biofuels is critical to protecting forests and native ecosystems from the consequences of increased...
Loopholes in Climate Bill “Offset” Provisions
The agriculture provisions of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) open two loopholes that threaten to let coal-fired power plants and other big climate polluters off the hook and slow...
A Disaster Waiting to Happen
The concentrated, predictable, repetitive nature of agricultural disaster aid among a few states with perennially poor growing conditions raises the question of whether the time has come for states to...
The Unintended Environmental Impacts of the Renewable Fuels Standard
U.S. farmers are planting fence-row-to-fence-row to produce enough corn to supply ethanol plants and at the same time meet burgeoning demand for food and feed crops. The intensification of corn...
Bonus Subsidy
A new EWG analysis identifies more than 1.2 million prospective recipients of a proposed $1.5 billion crop subsidy bonus contained in HR 4939, The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense...
After Two Decades of Agricultural Disaster Aid A Chronic Dependency Takes Root
This year millions of dollars of emergency agricultural disaster aid will go to the very same farmers and ranchers who have collected it every other year, or more frequently, for decades.
Cotton and Accountability
What if the United States does not comply with the WTO's broad rulings and fails to reform its multi-billion dollar cotton subsidy programs to Brazil's satisfaction? What retaliatory trade measures...
Nitrate Contamination of Drinking Water
An Environmental Working Group review of nearly 200,000 water sampling records found that over two million people -- including approximately 15,000 infants under the age of four months -- drank water...
Taking From the Taxpayers
The Bush administration is paying some of the biggest and richest agribusinesses in America $17 million for cutbacks in their taxpayer-subsidized water supply. But an EWG investigation found that...
Soaking Uncle Sam
Courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, a few hundred California farms in Fresno and Kings counties annually get enough water to supply every household in Los Angeles, at pennies on the dollar of the price paid...
Senators Push for Action on Disease Clusters Bill
Two years ago, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) introduced the Strengthening Protections for Children and...
Do you filter your tapwater? Should you?
When people ask what kind of water filter to use for their tapwater, we reply, "It depends on what contaminants are present in your tap water, since different filters are effective at removing...
International Ag Policy Experts Talk Farm Subsidy Reform
Mexico and the United States have a lot more in common than a border. Their agricultural and rural policies have strikingly similar flaws–and present parallel opportunities for reform and...
