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Across Generations: The Chemical Pollution Mothers & Daughters Share and Inherit
Farm Subsidy Reform Key to Restoring Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone"
House Set To Nullify State Consumer Safety Programs Under Pressure From Corporate Food Lobby
Seizing a Watershed Moment
Chrome-Plated Fraud: Scientific Integrity and Chromium Toxicity
Real Estate Developers with Mining Claims Near Las Vegas Could Still Purchase Land
Feds Set to Give 400 Farms More Water Than L.A., S.F., San Diego Combined
Energy Independence and Transportation Spending
State Attorneys General Oppose Legal Shield for MTBE Polluters
In a letter to all U.S. senators, the chief legal officers of 12 states from New York to California are urging lawmakers to vote against the federal energy bill or any legislation that protects oil...
Congressmen Target Fracking Loopholes to Stem Pollution
Growing numbers of Americans have had to contend with the harmful environmental impacts of oil and natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing as energy companies have pushed into shale and other...
Bill Promotes Local Food
WASHINGTON – Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today introduced in Congress the Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act of 2013, which seeks to make fresh, healthy food more...
Lawmakers Tackle Toxic Policy Reforms
Conservation Reforms Needed to Protect Environment and Drinking Water
A new analysis by Environmental Working Group underscores the need to reform the nation's primary land restoration program for long-term protection of wetlands, prairies and other lands that protect...
EWG Stands with San Francisco on Cell Phone Radiation Right-to-Know
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected to accept a settlement with the cell phone trade association tomorrow (Tuesday, May 7) to bring to an end a long legal battle over the city's...
Stolen Inventory
Canada plans strong sunscreen warnings
The Canadian government has proposed sunscreen rules much stronger than those governing U.S. sunscreens. Because numerous companies are major players in both the Canadian and United States markets, if...
EWG President Ken Cook Remembers the Life and Work of Sen. Frank Lautenberg
Environmental Working Group President and co-founder Ken Cook issued the following statement on the passing of Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) whose long and distinguished career protecting the...
Income Support Proposal in House Farm Bill is Far More Generous Than Current Law
A new price guarantee program in the House farm bill could cost nearly $20 billion more than the discredited programs it is designed to replace, a new analysis shows.
Foreign Companies Paid Billions to Run U.S. Crop Insurance Program
Twenty insurance companies in Bermuda, Japan, Switzerland, Australia, Canada and the U.S. were paid $7.1 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds from 2007 to 2011 to sell American farmers crop insurance...
House Narrowly Defeats Farm Bill Amendment to Strengthen Crop Insurance, Reduce Taxpayer Costs
Members of Congress Received $238K in Farm Subsidies
Environmental Working Group¹s 2013 update of its Farm Subsidy Database shows that 15 members of Congress or their spouses benefitted from a total of $237,921 in taxpayer-funded farm subsidy payments.
Thompson-Fortenberry Bill Would Restore Federal Conservation Compact
A bipartisan measure introduced by Reps. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., and Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., would restore the agreement between farmers and taxpayers that has protected soil, water and wetlands...
Chef Tom Colicchio and EWG Launch “Worth Protecting” Campaign
Environmental Working Group (EWG) today launched the Worth Protecting social media and advocacy campaign to underscore the need for federal farm bill reforms that protect public health and the...
