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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...
More than half of US streams polluted: EPA
Reuters Published May 4, 2006 More than half of US streams are polluted, with the worst conditions found in the eastern third of the country, according to a study by the Environmental Protection...
Report highlights reasons
Minnesota Pilot-Independent, Babe Winkelman Published June 19, 2006 What grows larger with each passing summer and is roughly the size of New Jersey? The answer: the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico...
Time to help the 'dead zone'
Peoria Journal Star, Steve Tarter Published June 25, 2006 It's an area the size of Connecticut that fails to harbor aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Dead Zone
Aberdeen American, Larry Gabriel Published August 24, 2006 If you have not heard of it, you will. The mass media is blaming "agriculture" for a predicted increase in the size of the so-called "dead...
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.
U.S. Farmers Should Curb Fertilizer Runoff: Study
Reuters Published September 10, 2007 U.S. farmers should be required to control soil erosion and fertilizer runoff from all land eligible for crop subsidies -- which would be a major expansion of...
Curb Farm-Payment Excesses
Des Moines Register Published July 14, 2007 Work on the 2007 farm bill comes at an exciting time for agriculture in America. Adding energy crops as a third major source of income, along with food and...
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...
EWG testifies in Congress about cell phone radiation
After we released our report about cell phone radiation, EWG Senior Scientist Olga Naidenko, PhD. testified in the U.S. Senate about our findings. Here she talks with EWG's Chief of Staff, Heather...
Westland's Water Subsidies More Corporate Welfare
Bakersfield Californian, Bill Walker Published October 29, 2005 In his recent Community Voices column, the president of Westlands Water District blasted Environmental Working Group's investigation of...
Cotton and Accountability
With first compliance deadline in WTO cotton decision looming, Brazil explores a novel trade retaliation: suspension of intellectual property rights for U.S. products.
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...
Disaster Aid Fund for Farmers to Get Push
Farm state senators, confronting an increasing struggle to win special disaster assistance for farmers, today will push for creation of a permanent disaster aid trust fund. The Senate Finance...
Addition to climate bill: Cash for no-till farming
Washington, D.C. - Some growers could get payments just to keep farming the way they already are, under changes being made to a House climate bill. Farm groups won provisions in the legislation that...
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...
Farm Bill Conservation Plan Facing Cuts
Argus Leader, Faith Bremner Published September 10, 2008 Senate Democrats are about to renege on an earlier plan to give more money to programs that pay farmers and ranchers to protect wildlife...