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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.
Researchers: Curbing Global Warming Would Boost Public Health
Taking steps to confront the threat of a warming planet would have the huge added payoff of making people healthier around the globe, a group of scientists have concluded in a unique package of new...
Drake Professor Takes Farm Bureau to the Climate Change Woodshed
Law professor Neil Hamilton penned a harsh critique of the Farm Bureau's dangerously shortsighed opposition to climate change legislation in a guest column in yesterday's Des Moines Register. Hamilton...
Good Magazine's Cornography
All corn, all the time. Good Magazine's YouTube channel has had this punchy, short video up since January, illustrating how corn permeates American life. EWG's work tracking the billions of dollars in...
Delta Farm Press Climate Change Q and A
Delta Farm Press reporter David Bennett posted his Q and A with EWG Midwest VP Craig Cox on Friday. Their discussion centered on points raised by Cox's recent report on the cost of climate change to...
