Regulation Works
The Mississippi River is alive again here as it flows through the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Once again, this urban river runs clear and its waters are a world-class fishery for walleye, sauger...
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Making a Good Farm Bill Program Better: Specialty Crop Grants in California
Compared to the billions that the government pays to subsidize industrial-scale growers of commodity crops such as corn, rice and soybeans, federal farm bill spending to promote cultivation and...
Put a Pitchfork In It
Speaker Boehner was right to put a fork – a pitchfork – in one of the worst pieces of farm and food legislation in decades.
Farm Subsidy Reform Now!
Tomorrow (Wed., Sept. 12), lobbyists for subsidized agriculture will hold a rally on Capitol Hill to urge Congress to pass a farm bill – any farm bill, even the terrible one produced by the House...
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Toxic Beaches
Either toxic algae or potentially dangerous fecal bacteria forced the closure of at least 116 U.S. beaches this spring and summer and triggered health warnings at 162 more, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Working Group.
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11 Champions
Everyone who eats should take a moment to thank 11 senators who proposed farm bill amendments designed to ensure that our farm and food policies help more farmers, the environment and the hungry at...
2012 Farm Bill: Crop Insurance - The Secret, Flawed & Expensive Safety Net
The cost to taxpayers of the current crop insurance system has soared from $2.4 billion in 2001 to nearly $9 billion in 2011 as a result of high commodity prices and the generous premium subsidies...
2012 Farm Bill: Conservation and the Environment
America's water, soil and wildlife habitat have never been under greater assault from the ravages of modern industrial agriculture. And since industrial crop production is exempt from most federal...
The Farm Subsidy Jackpot
Critics of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (previously known as food stamps) claim some recipients are wrongly receiving benefits after winning lottery jackpots. SNAP...
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Case Study: Iowa Cities Struggle to Keep Farm Pollution Out of Tap Water
The Raccoon River in central Iowa runs through one of the most intensely farmed regions of the nation. Agriculture is vital to the area's economy, but polluted runoff from farms poses an acute threat to residents' tap water – and a daunting challenge to utilities struggling to keep the water clean.
Wastewater Injection Made Faults More Vulnerable to Distant Earthquakes
A new study has added powerful new support to the growing evidence that deep underground injections of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing or other drilling activity has made some areas of the U.S...
Senator Formaldehyde’s ‘Chemical Safety’ Bill
These days, legislation rarely makes it through Congress without support from interest groups on both sides of the issue, forcing lawmakers to draft bills that are largely balanced. Now, however, the...
Subsidizing the Wealthiest Farmers in the Hungriest Counties
Did you know that many counties with the highest rates of food stamp users are also home to recipients of huge farm subsidies?
California Needs Corn Ethanol Reform
The federal requirement to blend nearly 14 billion gallons of corn ethanol into gasoline – more than the system can physically absorb – is slowing the nation's transition to low carbon fuels, harming...
Asbestos Victims Unite on Mesothelioma Awareness Day
Michael Bradley of Tunnel Hill, Georgia has spent the past 17 months in and out of surgery fighting peritoneal mesothelioma, a rare and usually fatal abdominal cancer caused by exposure to asbestos...
California’s New Fracking Law: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Last Friday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a major bill that promises to regulate fracking in California for the first time. But don't get too excited. Sen. Fran Pavley's fracking bill, known as S.B. 4, is...
Government Shutdown Puts Public Health at Risk
What's worth denying even a single child with cancer available and potentially life-saving treatment? Nothing – in my book. By shuttering the federal government, the Tea Party wing of the House of...
Lose Your Lunch: Congressional Food Fight Imperils Food Safety
The Food and Drug Administration's food inspectors have also been deemed non-essential – meaning that America's food manufacturing plants will not be inspected until Congress decides to pass...
Calls for Crop Insurance Reform and Environmental Protections Get Louder
An interactive map developed by the Environmental Working Group shows where more than 660 U.S. newspapers have published editorials since 2007 demanding meaningful reform of the federal farm bill.
True Horror Stories Of Cosmetic Dangers
People will go to great lengths to be “beautiful,” and cosmetics companies know it. It was not until 1938 that Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which gave the FDA power to act...
Should Foxes Build the Hen House?
Both the House and Senate overwhelmingly have voted for farm subsidy reform. The Senate twice voted to subject recipients of crop insurance subsidies to a modest means test, and the House passed a...
EWG Lab Test, HBO Documentary Highlight Toxic Risk of Fire Retardants
Today (Nov. 13) in Seattle, HBO will screen a disturbing new documentary, The Toxic Hot Seat, that highlights the growing risk to firefighters – and the general public – of fire retardant chemicals...
On Thanksgiving, Thank An Organic Farmer
When you gather around the table this Thanksgiving with family and friends, don't forget to give thanks to the organic farmers who grow our food in ways that protect the environment.
EWG's Sean Gray Investigates BB & CC Creams
How did I spend my summer? I hung around department store makeup aisles, looking for the much talked about “miracle” makeup, BB and CC creams. You should have seen the looks I got as I dabbed the...
