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In the Bay, It’s Millions for Subsidies, Pennies for Conservation
Everyone agrees: Chesapeake Bay is heavily polluted. Thirty years of promises, compromises, plans, schemes and a whole lot of taxpayer dollars have done little to clean up one of America's most...
More Attention for USDA's Lack of Transparency
There is increasing attention on the restriction of access to government records on taxpayer funded farm subsidies reported by the Environmental Working Group. 74 percent of payments administered by...
The Truth About Ethanol's Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Not so long ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did a new life-cycle analysis of corn ethanol to see if the much-subsidized biofuel meets the standard Congress set in the 2007 Energy Bill...
Will Big Ag Boycott Comedy after Al Gore's Latest Inconvenient Truths?
Big Ag is taking a beating from Al Gore's recent green blitz of late night comedy shows. On tour promoting his new book, Our Choice, the former VP and Nobel Prize and Oscar winner has been blunt in...
High-Low: Playing Poker with the Climate
“Today's high (or low) temperature was an all-time record for this date.” How many times have you heard that? This kind of news has been a staple of local weather forecasts for decades. And if you'd...
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EWG's Guide to Triclosan
It's nearly ubiquitous in liquid hand soap and dishwashing detergent, but those aren't the only products it's in. Triclosan is also a common ingredient in toothpaste, facewash, deodorant, a host of personal care products, and even mattresses, toothbrushes and shoe insoles. A U.S. FDA advisory committee has found that household use of antibacterial products provides no benefits over plain soap and
Project Bottled Water: Help build our database
EWG is about to embark on a new study about bottled water--where it comes from, how it's "purified," and if it's even worth the expense. A big part of this project is just compiling the data, so we...
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Methyl Bromide in Castroville, CA
Revilla Drive, Castroville, Calif. Summary Air monitoring by Environmental Working Group after methyl bromide fumigation of a strawberry field near Castroville, Calif., detected peak levels of methyl bromide exceeding the state Department of Pesticide Regulation health standard in the back yards of residents of nearby Revilla Drive. EWG's measurements, conducted with instruments believed to be
EWG’s 2013 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides Coming Soon
EWG's 2013 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce will be coming out soon. Stay tuned.
A Loophole for Pesticides Puts Public’s Health at Risk
Shot through a legal loophole with the speed of a Major League fastball, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved roughly 11,000 pesticides intended for use in agriculture, inside homes...
When Are Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes "Superbugs?"
Last week, the Environmental Working Group released a report analyzing antibiotic resistance of bacteria detected in supermarket meat. We unearthed data buried deep in the annual report of theNational...
EWG 2013 Farm Bill Platform
As Congress gets to work again in 2013 on renewing the farm bill, it has the opportunity to do more to support family farmers, protect the environment and encourage healthy diets, while ending...
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EWG's Healthy Living Tips
EWG's scientists and public health researchers put our heads together and created a list of the most important steps you can take at home to promote your family's environmental health.
Is Lysol’s New Crusade Against Germs “Healthing” or Hurting?
This spring Lysol introduced the world to “healthing,” a perfect buzzword to launch their new marketing ploy/public safety campaign. By blending the words healthy and helping, the campaign is...
Thank You for Spraying
When Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) spoke to the Organic Trade Association's Washington Policy Conference the other day, her talk had two parts: the part where she left the distinct impression that she...
USDA Needs To Deliver Tough Love To Ethanol Industry
Lobbyists for the corn-ethanol and the “advanced” biofuels industry had a meeting yesterday (March 21) organized by the United States Department of Agriculture Office of Rural Development to “discuss...
Money Talks; Hunger Doesn’t
America is emerging from a financial calamity that claimed millions of jobs. Hundreds of thousands of families struggle every day just to feed their kids. The tenuous economy has increased pressure on...
What’s That You’re Putting in Your Tank?
The government's decision to allow sale of gasoline blended with up to 15 percent ethanol, so-called E15 gasoline, means that one of these days we'll likely be pulling into gas stations that could...
Big Ag to Food Stamp Recipients: Go On a Diet
Last week was a reminder – if I needed it – of just how out of touch the powerful farm lobby is with the rest of America.
Money Where Our Mouths Are
Food and agriculture policy always comes down to money: how federal dollars will be prioritized and spent.
Mutual Confidentiality Agreement
The Food Movement Must Fight a Secret Farm Bill
Industrial agriculture's allies are hijacking the farm bill process. The farm subsidy lobby and a handful of their powerful Congressional allies are working overtime to skirt normal democratic...
The Ag Lobby Goes for the Gold
Here in Washington, the so-called “Super Committee” on deficit reduction is continuing to scour the federal budget in search of $1.5 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years. The House and Senate...