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Farm Subsidies

Senate Budget Spares Crop Subsidies, Cuts Conservation Payments

E and E News/Greenwire, Allison Winter Published March 26, 2009 Farmland conservation programs could take a hit in the spending blueprint under discussion in the Senate Budget Committee.

Links Between Foods and Cancer Hallmarks

Maintaining a variety of healthy foods in our diets is likely more important for reducing cancer risks than focusing on any individual nutrient or food.
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

Environmental group: Target U.S. aid at most polluted waters in Iowa

Des Moines Register, Philip Brasher Published May 29, 2009 Government conservation money in Iowa should be targeted to farms in areas that pollute the Mississippi River basin and cause a dead zone in...
Energy
Midwest

California Plan Scares Supporters of Ethanol

A California environmental agency this week will consider a controversial new way to evaluate the carbon footprint of biofuels. At stake for the ethanol industry is continued unencumbered access to...
Farm Subsidies

Climate Bill Costs Doubted

The Hill, Jim Snyder Published June 26, 2009 Excerpt: The subject of offsets and which federal agency has the responsibility of determining what qualifies has emerged as a problem for some...
Toxic Chemicals
Conservation

Farm and Forestry Offsets Key Question in Senate Debate

A new analysis from the Environmental Working Group estimates that the House bill could allow the equivalent of more than 67 large coal-fired power plants to avoid any new controls on greenhouse gas...

Proposed Budget Could Mean Loss in EQIP Money

Mitchell Daily Republic, Seth Tupper An environmental group said Wednesday that the Obama administration's proposed 2010 fiscal-year budget would cause South Dakota to "lose" about $5.3 million in...

State by State Funding Cuts, Part Deux

President Obama's proposed 2010 fiscal year budget continues the long string of broken promises that have left conservation programs billions short over the past two farm bills. Without proper...
Farm Subsidies

EWG and Allies Urge Defeat of Biofuels Green House Gas Analysis Exemption

While agriculture and forestry are poised to be leaders in sustainable climate solutions, to realize this opportunity America needs policies built on sound science. Science supports the inclusion of...
Conservation

Letter Supporting Farm Bill Proposed $4.951 Billion Conservation Increase

Letter sent by a coalition of environmental groups, including EWG, to congressional leadership requesting support of the March 18, 2008 Farm Bill “Framework's” $4.951 billion increase in new funds...

EWG Private Sector Engagement

EWG's mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment -- and the stakes have never been higher. We welcome strategic support from the private sector to expand the impact and reach of our work.
Farm Subsidies

Farm Bill 2007 Policy Analysis Database

For the first time, USDA has tracked subsidy benefits as they pass through tens of thousands of farm business entities—agribusiness cooperatives, partnerships, joint ventures and corporations—and has...
Farm Subsidies

Obstruction of Justice

A new investigation by the Environmental Working Group and the National Black Farmers Association reveals that the U.S. Department of Agriculture withheld nearly three out of every four dollars in a...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water

Virtual Flood: Virtual Water, Real Profits

The federal government has promised Central Valley agribusinesses that it will increase the amount of taxpayer-subsidized irrigation water by 44 percent over the next 25 years, well beyond what the...
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water

Double Dippers

Some of America's richest agribusinesses are double dipping from U.S. taxpayers' pockets at a rate of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, according to an EWG investigation of federal crop and...

IRS Form 990

IRS Form 990 for the Environmental Working Group

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Energy
California

Natural Gas Adds To Greenhouse Problem

In his State of the Union address, President Obama perpetuated a misleading idea -- that natural gas can reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that lead to global warming.

Energy
California

EWG’s FracFocus Principles

A growing number of states – Texas, Montana, Colorado and South Dakota, to name a few – are requiring oil and gas drilling companies to disclose the chemicals they use for hydraulic fracturing, or...

Toxic Chemicals
BPA
Cookware & Food Containers

California Set to Declare BPA Toxic to Reproductive System

In the last decade. Study after study by scientists from around the globe has connected the plastics and food packaging ingredient with more than a dozen serious health problems, including...

Energy
California
Federal & State Energy Policy

Methane Hunt Shines Light on Natural Gas

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is only the latest of a number of commentators who have been advancing the dubious argument that expanding use of natural gas is mitigating climate change.

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

New Chemicals: Sell First, Test for Safety Later?

A lot of people assume a company can't sell a chemical until it is has been proved safe. They're wrong. Under current law, the Environmental Protection Agency is charged with determining that a...

Research

EWG's Guide to Safe Drinking Water

Read EWG researchers' top tips to learn how to stay hydrated while reducing your exposures to common drinking water pollutants. Download as PDF
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food

Friends and Foes of Organic Food

The Alliance for Food and Farming, which is run out of a P.O. box in Watsonville, Calif., claims to extol the health benefits of consuming both conventional and organic produce and maintains that its...

Food & Water
Food

When Are Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes "Superbugs?"

Our report struck at nerve at FDA. The agency issued a statement calling it “misleading” and “alarmist.” You can read our full response here. Essentially, the FDA argued that antibiotic-resistance to...