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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...
Assessing the Effect of Taxes on the Economy
San Francisco Chronicle, Bill Walker Published August 18, 2005 Let's say you own a factory that makes titanium widgets. You make more widgets than people need, so the government buys your surplus at a...
Claim: Taxpayers foot electricity bills for Central Valley farmers
Central Valley Business Times Published May 29, 2007 Some Central Valley farms are paying pennies for the electricity needed to deliver irrigation water, claims a report Wednesday from the...
First shot in the 2007 farm bill debate?
Delta Farm Press, David Bennett Published May 4, 2006 In what could be the first significant shot fired in the 2007 farm bill debate, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released a report on how...
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.
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.
Let's Put Healthy Food on the Agenda -- and in the Curriculum
Good, healthy food was on the menu -- and on the agenda -- this month (March 3) when EWG staff and key supporters gathered in San Francisco for a sumptuous meal and lively discussion at EWG's 2010...
It's Time for Big Chicken to Take Responsibility
Environmentalists filed suit against poultry giant Perdue and one of its contract chicken farms last week (March 2) for violations to the Clean Water Act.
This Little Piggy Has Questions About the Farmer's Market
How threatened is Agribiz by the baby steps the Department of Agriculture has taken recently in support of organic and local agriculture? Threatened enough that one big grower personally castigated...
Forbes and Monsanto: A Match Made in H*ll
Clearly, the only criterion Forbes magazine uses when determining which U.S. corporation wins its yearly “Company of the Year” title must be profit. That's the only way to explain how a company as...
Chemicals and contaminants linked to cancer can be found in food, water and many other everyday products. However, no category of consumer products is subject to less government oversight than cosmetics and other personal care products.