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A new federal farm subsidy program for cotton growers could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

When Trump appears before the Farm Bureau today, he will be not speaking to America's farmers – he'll be preaching to his base. Photo courtesy of AP Photo

Once again, Congress is attempting to provide more subsidies to cotton farmers – this time in a bill designed to provide disaster relief to Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico.

A new report from the Department of Agriculture confirmed what EWG has been saying for years: Farm subsidies overwhelmingly go to the largest and most successful farm businesses, instead of to...

Between 2014 and 2015, three federal farm subsidy programs paid farmers multiple times for the same loss in crop yield or decline in crop price.

During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the federal government planted 220 million trees to stop the blowing soil that devastated the Great Plains.

More than 3 million acres of soybeans and other crops were damaged when a herbicide called dicamba drifted onto their fields, according to a just-published report in The Washington Post on the “arms...

Lead has been detected at high levels in Chicago's tap water, but that doesn't mean residents of the Windy City have to drink it.

What would it take to make the 2018 federal Farm Bill the best ever for public health and the environment?

President Trump's budget request managed to do something few could have imagined: unite farmers and foodies.

As the southern Great Plains get hotter and drier, is federal policy that encourages farmers not to adapt to climate change leading to another Dust Bowl?

Central Iowans got bad news about the quality of their drinking water on Friday when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Des Moines Water Works against three northern Iowa drainage districts.

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Today, in a near-partisan vote, Scott Pruitt was confirmed as the next head of the Environmental Protection Agency. It's no secret that EWG opposed him for the job.

Oklahoma has a dangerous and widespread groundwater pollution problem caused by illegal discharges of toxic swine waste from industrial-scale swine Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs...

There they go again. In the run-up to the 2018 Farm Bill, agriculture interests are squawking that America is facing a new farm crisis – one that can only be staved off by billions more taxpayer...

The first week of the Trump administration is just about over, and what a week it's been. It started with a media blackout at EPA and a freeze on EPA grants to states and localities used to protect...

Last weekend, EWG reported that after taking $40,000 in campaign contributions from poultry industry interests, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt – President Trump's nominee to head the...

Last fall, an EWG investigation debunked the agriculture industry's claims that American farms “feed the world.” In fact, fewer than 1 percent of U.S. exports go toward feeding the hungriest nations.