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Researchers: Curbing Global Warming Would Boost Public Health
Taking steps to confront the threat of a warming planet would have the huge added payoff of making people healthier around the globe, a group of scientists have concluded in a unique package of new...
Drake Professor Takes Farm Bureau to the Climate Change Woodshed
Law professor Neil Hamilton penned a harsh critique of the Farm Bureau's dangerously shortsighed opposition to climate change legislation in a guest column in yesterday's Des Moines Register. Hamilton...
These Farmers Get Subsidies for Pushing Up Daisies
Last night, Stephen Stock -- lead investigative reporter for Florida's CBS-TV 4's I-Team -- aired a report on people collecting taxpayer-funded farm subsidies for years after they've died. Stephen's...
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...
WTO Doesn't 'Cotton' to US Subsidies
Brazil announces retaliatory trade sanctions on U.S. products after World Trade Organization targets U.S. cotton subsidies. Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Freedman writes that: "The WTO gave Brazil...
Attack of the Frankenfoods: Genetically Engineered Crops Use 26% More Pesticides, and Growing
The dedicated folks at The Organic Center released a hard hitting report today, Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use: The First Thirteen Years.
Agriculture and Carbon: "The More We Mimic Mother Nature the Better"
Veteran reporter Dan Morgan has taken a hard, clear-eyed look at carbon markets for agriculture and the validity of various conservation practices aimed at fighting climate change (h/t farmpolicy.com)...
A Prairie Home Companion Pokes Fun at Iowa Corn
A Prairie Home Companion, the long-running radio variety show, Robert Altman movie and purveyor of powdermilk biscuits,usually broadcasts from St. Paul, Minnesota. Last week's performance originated...
USDA Research: Does No-Till Really Capture More Carbon?
The Agriculture Research Service (ARS) of the US Department of Agriculture released a surprising bit of climate change-related research on Tuesday, work that suggests that getting big cuts in...
Good Magazine's Cornography
All corn, all the time. Good Magazine's YouTube channel has had this punchy, short video up since January, illustrating how corn permeates American life. EWG's work tracking the billions of dollars in...
Loophole Deja Vu: Senate Climate Bill's Agriculture Offsets Include Polluter Giveaway
Hearings began in the Senate last week on the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. This bill, the companion legislation to the Waxman-Markey climate change bill passed by the House...
Gulf Dead Zone Cause and Cure: Remarks by Craig Cox
Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico watershed informational slides.
What's for (School) Lunch? Cornbread and Corn Cobbettes
“Frito-Lay traveling nachos with cornbread, served with a corn cobbette” – that's what's for lunch today in my old elementary school cafeteria in Richmond, VA.
California Leads on Climate Change, Except in Agriculture
When we talk about California and climate change, agriculture matters. California's agriculture sector faces two major challenges: Reduce its contribution to climate change. Arm itself against the...
State of the Rockies Project Studies Big Ag
If you're a Westerner - and what American isn't, really? -- Colorado College's State of the Rockies Project is a must-read, must-bookmark web destination.
Crying Wolf: Climate Change Will Cost Farmers Far More Than a Climate Bill
Farm industry leaders and their supporters in Congress are trying to derail climate change legislation by insisting that the House-passed bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), will...
Gulf Dead Zone Cause and Cure Known, Action Still Required
Remarks by Environmental Working Group Midwest Vice-President Craig Cox to the Mississippi River Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force Public Meeting.
Report Says Pacts Give More Water to Farmers
Fresno Bee, Mark Grossi Published March 17, 2005 The federal government is promising 43% more water for California farmers in new irrigation contracts, meaning new dams would have to be built in the...
Sen. Feingold Introduces Small Farmer, Taxpayer, Water Resource Protection Bill
US Fed News Published May 24, 2005 The office of Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., issued the following press release: Sen. Russ Feingold has introduced legislation that could help save $2.5 billion over...
Report Criticizes Water Subsidies
Sacramento Bee, Jim Wasserman Published August 1, 2005 A national environmental group critical of farm subsidies said Tuesday that more than 1,200 Central Valley farms received federally subsidized...