By Craig Cox, EWG Senior Vice-President
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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 higher quality meals intended...
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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 potent greenhouse gas. As...
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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 supplies Perdue with...
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Guest blog posted by EWG Action Fund board member Robyn O’Brien
“The less we spend on food, the more we spend on health care,” author and food activist Michael Pollan said on Oprah.
Today, Americans spend almost 20 cents of every dollar managing disease — diabetes, allergies, asthma, cancer, obesity — and only 10 cents of every dollar on food.
The jury is still out on what exactly may...
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The American Farm Bureau convention irresponsibly passed a resolution opposing climate change legislation on January 12th. Laughably, at the same time they threw down the gauntlet on climate legislation, the Farm Bureau also created a Budget Deficit Reduction Task Force. Their stand:
There are just three ways to reduce the federal deficit and eliminate the national debt — reduce spending, collect...
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