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"We've Made the Unhealthy Choice the Rational Choice"

A big reason that food products derived from corn are so pervasive in America's diet today is that for decades taxpayers have given corn growers incentives to grow as much as possible through the...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water

Taxpayers Fuel Rise of the Mega (Family) Farm

Discussions in Congress on reforming America's broken food and farm policy in the next farm bill have already begun. Lots of voices are chiming in from the pro-food and sustainable agriculture circles...
Food & Water
Food

Chef Ann Cooper's School Salad Bar Salvo

In the months since we spoke with Chef Ann Cooper about her school lunch project, she's been crafting a new plan to get healthy foods into the mouths of America's kids.
Energy
Midwest

Biomass Power Can't Get Its Story Straight

As AgMag noted the other day, Massachusetts has decided to rewrite its rules for renewable energy to exclude electric-only power plants that would burn biomass, often in the form of whole trees. Ian A...
Energy
Midwest
Conservation

Massachusetts Sees the Light on Biomass Power

In a sharp about-face, Massachusetts officials have decided that biomass-fueled, electric-only power plants do not qualify as renewable energy sources because of the growing awareness that these...
Energy
Midwest
Farming & Agriculture

Huge Taxpayer Investment in Ethanol Yields Paltry Payoff

Between 2005 and 2009, U.S. taxpayers spent a whopping $17 billion to subsidize corn-ethanol blends in gasoline. What did they get in return? A reduction in overall oil consumption equal to an...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Peterson Sends Positive Signals on Farm Bill

For years the Environmental Working Group has advocated for a more rational farm policy that would provide a better safety net for more American farmers. We've done this while also seeking to promote...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Will Farm Subsidies be the Tea Partiers' Achilles' Heel?

It's too early to tell what the Tea Party movement's impact will be on the November elections, but there's no doubt that their noisy anti-big government message has barged into the nation's political...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food

Bacon, Cheese and Chicken, Please – Hold the Bun.

If you've ever wished that one day there would be a place where you could grab a bacon and cheese pileup with no veggies, smashed between slabs of fried chicken instead of buns, here's good news.
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water

EWG To Monitor San Francisco Sludge Policy, Criticizes Unfounded Accusations Aimed At Vietor, Waters

The Environmental Working Group will join other watchdog groups in monitoring the San Francisco Public Utility Commission's (SFPUC) controversial management of sewage sludge. EWG President Ken Cook...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies

The Fincher that Stole Food Stamps

Congressman Fincher: Stop stealing our money.

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies
Conservation
Food

Why Environmentalists (and Every American) Should Reject the House Farm Bill

The budget-busting farm bill approved Wednesday night (May 15) by the House Agriculture Committee and its leaders – Reps. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) – is nothing but bad news...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

Reject Farm Bill Bait and Switch

Here's the bottom line: Both farm bills proposed this week (May 13) by the House and Senate Agriculture committees would cut funding for the hungry and the environment to help boost subsidies for the...

Research

Duke Energy’s Epic Fails: $11.6 Billion in Scrapped Projects Since 2013

In July, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy canceled the $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Six months earlier, Duke and three partners canceled the $1 billion Constitution Pipeline. These surprising decisions – made shortly after both ventures seemed assured of going forward – sent shock waves through the industry, with Dominion selling off much of its natural gas infrastructure, even as Duke
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Where is the Scrutiny of Crop Insurance Fraud?

Minnesota Congressman Colin Peterson (D-Minn.) struck a nerve this month when he said that “there is five times as much fraud” in the federal crop insurance program as there is the Supplemental...

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...