EWG testimony to the House Agriculture Committee on the 2022 Farm Bill

The farm bill is one of the most important pieces of legislation most of us have never heard of – and Congress is negotiating it right now.

This sweeping bill affects everyone, even those who have...

Pesticides that are part of the family of toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS contaminate surface water and sediment in agricultural areas across California, an EWG analysis finds.

PFAS pesticides...

Next week, House lawmakers will vote on the farm bill, which sets food and farm policy. 

The partisan House farm bill proposed by Agriculture Committee Republicans would fail to help family farmers...

The agricultural chemical and seed giant Syngenta announced it will stop producing the toxic weedkiller paraquat by the end of June this year. 

But this is a tactical retreat, not a public health...