Articles by Ken Cook

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

Ken Cook Testifies Against Industry's Chemical Bill

Testimony of Kenneth Cook, President of the Environmental Working Group on S. 697 before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Toxic Chemicals

Remembering Theo Colborn: The Rachel Carson of My Generation

Dr. Theo Colborn was the Rachel Carson of a generation of environmentalists who work on toxic chemicals, pollution and health. She inspired hard work, inventive investigation and courage across the...

Food & Water
Food
Food
Food
Food

Rate Your Plate Series: EWG's Food Scores Gives Snapshot of America's Food Landscape

As EWG's Food Scores: Rate Your Plate reveals in detail, popular brands in many categories are not so much food as they are conveyances for excessive amounts of sugar, salt and preservatives.

Food & Water
Food
Food
Food
Food

Rate Your Plate Series: EWG's Food Scores Gives Snapshot of America's Food Landscape

As EWG's Food Scores: Rate Your Plate reveals in detail, popular brands in many categories are not so much food as they are conveyances for excessive amounts of sugar, salt and preservatives.

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

Strengthening Public Health Protections by Addressing Toxic Chemical Threats

Testimony of Kenneth A. Cook, President, Environmental Working Group before the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the United States Senate on strengthening public health protections by...

Food & Water

EWG's Ken Cook Lends Support for Washington State's GMO Labeling Initiative

On February 14, 2013, EWG President Ken Cook testified before the Washington State Senate's Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development Committee in support of the state's common-sense ballot...

Farming & Agriculture

Another Environmentalist Apologizes Over GMOs

I need to start by publicly apologizing for not engaging in the debate over genetically engineered crops, technically, genetically modified organisms or GMOs, until two years ago.

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food

I Call the Vote: A Farm Bill Litmus Test for the Food Movement

Here's a simple proposition to test whether the food movement can stand up to Big Ag. We're asking readers who care about providing healthier food to schoolchildren to take a stand by voting on our...
Chemical Policy
BPA

Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging Must Go

Under mounting pressure from consumers, scientists, advocacy groups and lawsuits, the Food and Drug Administration is about to decide whether to ban the ubiquitous industrial chemical BPA (bisphenol-A...
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food

Lunchroom Bullies

If you wanted an object lesson in how broken food politics are in America, you couldn't do better than to read how farm lobbyists, teamed up with big food companies and malleable friends in both...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

The Food Movement Must Fight a Secret Farm Bill

Industrial agriculture's allies are hijacking the farm bill process. The farm subsidy lobby and a handful of their powerful Congressional allies are working overtime to skirt normal democratic...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation
Food & Water
Food
Food

Super Committee Me

If the next farm bill gets written without input from healthy food reformers, maybe it's time to occupy the agriculture committees?
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

Their Spray Rigs in a Twist

When industry lobbyists want the government to do something the public won't like, they usually go about it quietly. Not so for the produce and pesticide lobby.
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water
Food
Food
Food & Water

Thank You for Spraying

When Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) spoke to the Organic Trade Association's Washington Policy Conference the other day, her talk had two parts: the part where she left the distinct impression that she...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food

Out of the Mouths of Babes

To judge by the results of their budget-slashing, all-night tea party a few weeks back, Republicans must have swarmed out of their caucus and onto the floor of the House of Representatives with a...
Toxic Chemicals
Chromium-6
Food & Water
Water

EWG President Ken Cook Testifies at Senate Water Contamination Hearing

EWG president Ken Cook testifies that ensuring safe, accessible drinking water is a core responsibility of the U.S. government.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food
Food

Money Where Our Mouths Are

Food and agriculture policy always comes down to money: how federal dollars will be prioritized and spent.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Endless Injustice for Black Farmers

It's now a done deal. After Congress in July rebuffed several attempts by Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) to win funding for an agriculture disaster aid package that would send generous checks to...
Energy
Midwest
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

$600 Million for BP -- Courtesy of US Taxpayers

2010 won't be all lemons for BP. Sure, the company will be best remembered for blowout preventers, top kill and Tony Hayward, but along the way the oil giant stands to make a killing from its...

Cotton and Accountability

It is the big 'what if' question occupying Brazilian policy experts and legislators in the wake of their country's stunning victory over the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in...

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