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The Fincher that Stole Food Stamps

Congressman Fincher: Stop stealing our money.

Common-Sense Reforms Will Strengthen, Not Weaken, Crop Insurance

Opponents of crop insurance reform contend that common-sense reform designed to level the playing field for family farmers and protect taxpayers and the environment will “weaken” the farm safety net.

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...

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.

Fracking Harms Won’t Respect Town Boundaries

Earlier this month, a New York appellate court upheld a lower court ruling that cities and towns in New York state have the right to ban drilling and hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas...

Cut Crop Insurance, Not Conservation and Nutrition

This ought to be simple. While farm income is at record levels, 47 million Americans are struggling with hunger and millions of acres of wetland and prairie are being lost forever.

We Need Safe Cosmetics Reform Now!

We need safe cosmetics reform now! Mercury in mascara? Lead in lipstick? Scientific studies have shown that many common personal care products contain dangerous chemicals. EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics...

Many Farmers Seeking Conservation Help Get Turned Away

Two out of every five farmers who seek assistance in reducing water pollution from their fields or the amount of pesticides and antibiotics they use are being turned away because USDA's Natural...

FDA Proposes Warning Labels on Tanning Beds

The federal Food and Drug Administration has proposed new regulations that would require tanning beds to bear warning labels and tighten agency controls on their operations.

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...

Conservation Success Story: The Grotberg Farm

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

Worth Protecting

Today, on the eve of farm bill consideration by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, EWG is launching an unprecedented campaign to remind Congress that our land, our food, our families, and our farms...

Hail to the Chiefs

Six former chiefs of USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service today (May 7) urged the leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees to once again require farmers to adopt basic...

Conservation Success Story: The Ingram Farm

A smart man learns from his mistakes, Terry Ingram likes to say, but a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Taxpayers Get Soaked to Prop Up Farm Income

Federally subsidized crop insurance is now the most expensive program supporting farm income, so it's no surprise that it will be at the center of the Senate Agriculture Committee's deliberations on...

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...

Does Crop Insurance Expand the Racial “Subsidy Gap?”

Every American should be angry over the false claims being made against a fund designed to help black farmers who were the victims of long-standing discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

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...

Green Slime

We've all heard of pink slime. Now, there's green slime too.

Livestock Feedlot Facts Should be Public

Largely out of the public view, government officials, environmental groups and agricultural interests have been battling over public access to data about the workings of the crowded animal feedlots...
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