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Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies

Lawmakers Could Look to Farm Bill for $100 Billion in Additional Budget Savings

EWG's Scott Faber joined representatives of several fiscally conservative organizations in calling on Congress not to slip a full farm bill reauthorization into any legislative package they cobble...

Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics
Cleaning Supplies

"Natural" Extracts Can Trigger Allergies

Allergies are an increasingly serious health issue for millions of Americans, especially children. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the number of American children...

Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

Setting a Place at the Table

If you've ever wondered how hunger and obesity manage to exist side by side, go see A Place at the Table, a powerful new documentary that unwinds the knotty problem of hunger in America. It opens...

Energy
Midwest
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Where Does All That Corn Ethanol Come From?

In recent years, millions of acres of America's native grasslands have been plowed under to grow corn for ethanol to blend into gasoline. And new research is clearly pointing to the federal ethanol...

Food & Water
Water

Finding a Water Filter that Works for You

No matter where you live, the tap water is sure to contain some chemicals you don't want to drink. For instance, we at Environmental Working Group recently reviewed the water quality tests of 201 big...

Energy
California

Does Frac Sand Harm Public Health?

As drilling operations for natural gas and oil in the U.S. have expanded into shale and other unconventional underground formations, so has the list of public health threats associated with hydraulic...

Research

Greener School Cleaning Supplies

You clicked an old link. EWG has updated resources on green cleaners you can use to choose healthy cleaning products for your family.

Research

EWG Tests of Hummus Find High Levels of Glyphosate Weedkiller

The health-food staple hummus and the chickpeas it is made from can be contaminated with high levels of glyphosate, a weedkilling chemical linked to cancer, according to independent laboratory tests commissioned by EWG. The tests also found glyphosate in other kinds of dry and canned beans, dry lentils and garbanzo flour.
Energy
Midwest

US Group: Ethanol Gets Unfair Share Of Energy Subsidies

Dow Jones, Bill Tomson Published January 9, 2009 Data pulled from a U.S. Energy Information Administration report shows that the corn-based ethanol industry has a history of securing far more tax...
Conservation

State by State EQIP Conservation Cuts

Congress's proposed "increase" in Environmental Quality Incentives Program funding is really a cut of $285 million from what was promised in the 2008 farm bill. Without proper conservation funding...
BPA
Cookware & Food Containers

Take our BPA quiz, then pick up the phone...

It's almost the end of the school year - perfect time for a little pop quiz to see if you've been paying attention!
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water

Democrats' Bitter Harvest

House Democrats' devastating losses in Tuesday's mid-term election swept away a number of members from hotly contested rural districts whose full-throated support for keeping the taxpayer-funded farm...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Farm Income Data Debunks Subsidy Myths

Environmental Working Group's updated Farm Subsidy Database, released May 5, chronicles where federal farm subsidy dollars have gone from 1995 through 2009, revealing the true impact of farm programs...
Food

EWG Donor Exclusive

EWG couldn't do all of our great work without your support. As a small show of appreciation, we're sharing with you this special recipe and photo album from our San Francisco Earth Dinner.
Energy
Midwest
Farm Subsidies

EPA Must Abide by the Law and Assess the Full Climate Impacts of Biofuels

Letter sent by a coalition of environmental groups, including EWG, to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urging that EPA not delay or significantly constrain consideration of indirect land use in the RFS...
Chemical Policy

NIH Cracks Down on Scientists' Conflicts of Interest

As of March 7, 2005, National Institute of Health (NIH) employees are no longer allowed to accept consulting fees and stock options from pharmaceutical companies. A group of scientists have formed an...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food

According to Big Ag, Organic Farming Means More Jobs

First, the heavily subsidized commodity crop growers complained when the Department of Agriculture dared to send out encouraging messages about local and organic farming. Next, a coalition of Big Ag...

Studies Show GE Labels Won’t Drive Up Food Costs

Despite the food industry's scare tactics, there is ample evidence that requiring genetically engineered food to be labeled would come at little or no cost to consumers.

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food

Health Reform Should Begin at USDA

“The less we spend on food, the more we spend on health care,” author and food activist Michael Pollan said on Oprah. Today, Americans spend almost 20 cents of every dollar managing disease --...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

We Subsidize Corporate Farms, Why Not Baseball?

The Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog interviewed Minnesota Twins' President Jerry Bell (subscription required) and asked him about the Twins' new taxpayer-funded stadium.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

Farm Bureau, the Most Ideologically Contorted Organization in America

The American Farm Bureau convention irresponsibly passed a resolution opposing climate change legislation on January 12th. Laughably, at the same time they threw down the gauntlet on climate...

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Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

More Churchill, Less Chamberlain

Reliable Big Ag accomplice Collin Peterson, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, made clear last week that he plans to vote NO on the pending climate bill, after signaling as much this spring...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Gold-Plated Back Scratchers

The Center For America Progress's Eric Alterman and Mickey Ehrlich have written an interesting piece on recent legislation and the impact that campaign contributions from well-funded special interests...