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Taxpayer Costs Balloon to $8 Billion under Farm Insurance Program

A newly released report on subsidized federal revenue insurance for industrial crop farmers shows that the government has failed to control its costs and big insurance companies and agents continue to...

Ruling Backs San Francisco on Transparency for Cell Phone Buyers

U.S. District Judge William Alsup last week gave the green light to city authorities to require that retailers distribute fact sheets about cell phone radiation to their customers.

Californians Urge Healthy Food and Jobs Focus in Fast Tracked Farm Bill

More than 60 public health, nutrition, food, farm and environmental groups representing hundreds of thousands of California citizens are urging Gov. Jerry Brown and the state's congressional...

Senate Votes to Bar Farm Subsidies to Millionaires

The U.S. Senate voted 84-15 last night to deny farm subsidy payments to millionaires.

Judge Delays Consumer Protection Law

US District Judge William Alsup today asked the city of San Francisco to delay enactment of its lauded cell phone right-to-know ordinance until he decides whether to grant the cell phone industry's...

Chemical Giants Bow to BPA Ban in Kids' Foodware

Yielding to pressure from parents, health advocates, and lawmakers, the chemical industry has conceded that the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol-A should not be used to make baby bottles and sippy...

BPA Banned in California Baby Bottles

California parents are cheering and letting out a sigh of relief with the news that Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation banning the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles...

National Academies: Ethanol Worsens Greenhouse Gases

A new report by the National Academy of Sciences has found that corn ethanol production increases greenhouse gas emissions and damages soil, air, water and wildlife habitat. As well it says advanced...

EPA Ruling Backs Camp Lejeune Victims

The Environmental Protection Agency has handed a major victory to veterans, civilian workers and families who resided at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina when its drinking water was polluted with the...

Cosmetic Industry Declares Formaldehyde In Hair Products Unsafe

The mainstream cosmetics industry has, for the first time, declared formaldehyde unsafe at any level in hair straighteners.

56 Groups Urge Budget Cutters to Protect Agricultural Conservation

A national coalition of 56 policy and advocacy organizations is urging Congress to preserve funding for essential U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation programs and to take additional steps to...

Obama’s Debt Reduction Plan Would Eliminate Wasteful Farm Subsidies

Kenneth A. Cook, president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group, has applauded President Obama's plan to reform the nation's wasteful agriculture policy in his drive to reduce the nation's...

Shortchanging Human Health and the Environment Won’t Trim Swollen Deficit

The Congressional Super Committee formed to break the political gridlock over the federal deficit will fail in its goal of balancing the budget if it heeds calls to slash programs that protect...

FDA Steps Up Pressure on Brazilian Blowout

Environmental Working Group issued the following statement this afternoon in response to the federal Food and Drug Administration's warning to Brazilian Blowout that the company's product containing...

Government Tests Find Roundup Widespread in Water, Air

Glyphosate, one of the most heavily used weed-killers in the world, has been found in air, rain and rivers in two states examined by government scientists.

California Senate Approves BPA Ban for Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups

The California State Senate voted today to ban the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A from baby bottles and sippy cups sold in California.

Burlingame Passes Cell Phone Radiation Bill

The Burlingame, Calif., city council has passed a motion to post guidelines on the city's website to advise consumers how they can minimize their exposure to cell phone radiation.

EWG Dissects Federal Fracking Report

A Department of Energy advisory panel's draft report has insufficiently examined in depth the health and safety issues raised by natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, according to a detailed...

California Deserves Disclosure on Fracking Chemicals and Water Use

Few Californians realize that the highly controversial shale gas and oil extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has been taking place in their state for more than 50 years.

Fracking Panel Ducks Substance, Focuses on Messaging

In a draft report on the increasingly controversial practice of shale gas drilling, the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board Subcommittee sidestepped the crucial question of whether hydraulic...

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