Conservation

EWG works to find innovative ways to protect your health and environment while ensuring a sustainable future for America’s working farmers.

The science is clear: If we don’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food and farming, we can’t avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Meat and dairy alternatives can reduce greenhouse gases and improve public health.

Large-scale agriculture isn’t just a nuisance, but a health threat to the people living nearby — disproportionately people of color and low-income communities. 

Conventional agriculture can pollute rivers, lakes and tap water with unsafe levels of toxic chemicals. EWG offers science-based information to learn more.

America’s food system relies on food and farm workers, who often have little to no protection against diseases like COVID-19. EWG wants to fix the system.

Farm subsidies overwhelmingly flow to the largest, most successful farms producing a handful of crops. EWG uses data to expose failures in our farm safety net and support reforms that level the playing field for family farmers.

Lakes, reservoirs, rivers and streams are critical sources of drinking water. But they’re threatened by toxic algae blooms, fueled by polluted runoff from farms and made worse by climate change.