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Needlessly Pitting Kids Against Conservation
By Craig Cox, EWG Senior Vice-President – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark) today (March 17) unveiled legislation to reauthorize child nutrition programs and increase nutrition funding by $4.5 billion over 10 years. Of the total, $1.2 billion would increase the number of children who receive food and $3.2 billion would go toward delivering... Continue Reading...
Gulf Dead Zones Just Got Deadlier
It’s bad enough what marine “Dead Zones” do to the oceans; now it looks as if they’re drivers of global warming as well. In a new report in the March 12 edition of the journal Science, Dr. Lou Codispoti of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science found that as Dead Zones expand, they release more nitrous oxide — a particularly... Continue Reading...
The Other National Debt
By Craig Cox, EWG midwest vice-president, and Nils Bruzelius, executive editor. You hear plenty of talk about the ballooning federal deficit created by tax cuts, two wars and the effort to dig out of the economic meltdown, but precious little about the funding gap that’s hollowing out federal programs designed to protect America’s soil and water. An economic recovery and... Continue Reading...
It’s Time for Big Chicken to Take Responsibility
Environmentalists filed suit against poultry giant Perdue and one of its contract chicken farms last week (March 2) for violations to the Clean Water Act. For decades, livestock producers have allowed large amounts of toxic run-off from animal waste to flow into the streams and rivers feeding Chesapeake Bay. The suit aims to link Perdue to an 80,000-bird factory operation that... Continue Reading...
