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Energy

Alternative energy proven cost effective as well as environmentally friendly

The International Energy Agency (IEA) came out with yet another economic report announcing the cost effectiveness of cleaner energy. Through use of energy trends, the World Energy Outlook, a division...
Toxic Chemicals
Flame Retardants
Household & Consumer Products

Carpeting linked to adult asthma

A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology finds that exposure to carpeting and other materials in the workplace significantly increases adults' risk of developing asthma. Carpet...

EWG president sets record straight on "emergency" subsidies

Are weather-related complications, such as droughts, really 'disasters' if they seem to happen year after year? Many farmers who receive these payments seem to think so, but EWG President and farm...
Perchlorate

California rocket fuel standards too weak

California is years behind schedule in setting safety standards for rocket fuel waste in drinking water, and now there's evidence that the proposed standard is too weak to protect pregnant women and...
Energy
Food & Water

Kid-powered water pumps

Several years ago, concerned by the time and energy South African women spent fetching water from distant, often polluted sources, Trevor Fields decided to do something. Fields teamed up with an...
Conservation

In the news: October 19, 2006

Multiple articles from recent news.
Conservation

RAN's World Rainforest Week

Currently, about 40 million acres of rainforest are lost annually, even though they are home to to five to ten million plant and animal species. In addition to their role as diverse habitats...
Mercury

Study links mercury and premature births

A new study of over 1,000 pregnant Michigan women has found that those with hair samples containing high levels of mercury are three times more likely to give birth prematurely. The study acknowledges...
Conservation

New group forms to help science-friendly candidates

Scientists and Engineers for America is a new group, just recently formed: "to enter the political debate when the nation's leaders systematically ignore scientific evidence and analysis, put...
Research

UPDATE: Exposing Fields of Filth

In the past eight years, three predominantly Black, Native American and Latino counties in North Carolina – already home to most of the state's industrial hog operations – added 30 million chickens and turkeys, according to a new geospatial analysis by the Environmental Working Group and Waterkeeper Alliance.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies

Tea For Me, Not For You

A day after the Senate Agriculture committee passed its version of the 2013 farm bill, the House committee did the same.

Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Conservation Success Story: The Grotberg Farm

Dick and Linda Grotberg began their transition to sustainable farming largely by accident.

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

Satellite Study Documents Vast Loss of Midwest Grasslands

The South Dakota researchers, Christopher K. Wright and Michael C. Wimberley, focused on grassland conversion in areas close to wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region – a critical Midwest flyway for...

Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water

Sediment Study Shows More Soil Conservation Needed

Faster is better, right? So is it a good thing that it now takes only 59 days for an Iowa lake to undergo a change that once took 631 days? No. Not when we're talking about how long it takes for a...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

Secret Farm Bill Threatens an “Environmental Cliff”

Congressional leaders in search of a compromise to avoid plunging off the “fiscal cliff” are under growing pressure from the agriculture subsidy lobby and its friends in Congress to attach a subsidy...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation
Food & Water
Food
Food

Congress Should Not Pass a Lame Duck Farm Bill

With the elections finally behind us, Congress has returned to Washington to try to wrap up a slew of unfinished business. Among other things, lawmakers are grappling with how to revive the expired...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies

Farm Bill: More for Millionaire Farmers, Less for Poor Kids

With high crop prices, high land prices and guaranteed business income thanks to federal crop insurance, farm businesses are doing very well, thank you very much. The Bloomberg news service reports...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies
Conservation
Food & Water
Food
Food

Farm Bill Extension: Support Stewards, Not Insurance Subsidies

With only five legislative weeks left, Congress must vote to extend the farm bill, but it must do it in a way that reflects the nation's spending priorities, supports family farmers and protects the...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies

Can Obama Depend on Dependent Farmers?

By now, every American is familiar with Mitt Romney's suggestion that 47 percent of Americans are “victims” who are “dependent” on government assistance.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

Drought-Stricken Farmers Pay the Price for Failed Climate Bill

In the face of crippling drought across the Corn Belt, Congress is considering funding a disaster aid package with cuts to climate friendly conservation programs. Even as extreme drought wreaks havoc...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

Cynical Extension Cuts Conservation, Extends Direct Payments

The one-year extension of the farm bill likely to come up on the House floor this week would perpetuate funding for the worst aspects of American farm policy and would cut funding for the best.
Research

In California, Latinos More Likely To Be Drinking Nitrate-Polluted Water

In California's San Joaquin Valley, the nation's leading agricultural region, Latinos make up the great majority of farmworkers.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

Honor the Conservation Compact

Some commitments should be honored. In exchange for farm subsidies, farmers have for decades committed to adopt land management practices that reduce the runoff from their fields – a provision of the...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

City Slickers Continue To Rake In Farm Payments

Remember the last time you were smack in the middle of downtown Chicago or walking down a bustling street of Manhattan?