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Guaranteeing a clean and ample supply of water should be at the core of our energy policy. Sometimes Washington seems to have forgotten that. But a recent survey shows that the American people have not.

Key Issues: 

Energy

Fracking

Water

Tap Water

Environmental Working Group’s researchers have created Good Food on a Tight Budget, a science-based shopping guide of the top 100 foods that are healthy, cheap, clean and green.  Here are the files for our webinar.  

Key Issues: 

Food

Healthy Eating

The Environmental Working Group has always urged people to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, organic or conventional – and we always will.  A diet heavy in produce and light in processed foods, red meat and soda could well help you live a longer, healthier life. 

Key Issues: 

Toxics

Pesticides

Food

Healthy Eating

Chemicals in Food

High crop prices and unlimited crop insurance subsidies contributed to the loss of more than 23 million acres of grassland, shrub land and wetlands between 2008 and 2011, new research by Environmental Working Group and Defenders of Wildlife shows.

Key Issues: 

Farming

Subsidies

Farm Policy

Environment

Environmental Working Group released a statement today opposing the drought disaster package proposed by House agriculture committee leaders that would be paid for with damaging and unnecessary cuts to conservation programs. Livestock and fruit and vegetable farmers who don’t have access to federal crop insurance certainly need assistance during this historic drought. But the proposal would cut the very conservation programs that help farmers mitigate severe weather conditions. This is a shortsighted and counterproductive move.

Key Issues: 

Farming

Farm Policy

Environment

In an AgMag post today, Environmental Working Group’s Scott Faber urges the full House to reject a cynical one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill because it cuts vital conservation programs and extends wasteful direct payments.

Key Issues: 

Farming

Subsidies

Farm Policy

The Environmental Working Group has unmasked the latest scheme to cook up a “new” farm policy that has the worst faults of the old one. In a statement released today, EWG says: "Legislation that costs more than the Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as TARP, doesn’t stand a chance in the U.S. House of Representatives."

Key Issues: 

Farming

Farm Policy

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was right to put the fatally flawed House Agriculture Committee farm bill out to pasture, writes Environmental Working Group’s Scott Faber in EWG’s latest AgMag post.

Key Issues: 

Farming

Farm Policy

A House proposal to extend the 2008 farm bill by one year is a repudiation of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2012 (FARRM) produced by the House Agriculture Committee and would deny the full House the opportunity to debate meaningful and long-overdue reform of crop insurance subsidies.

Key Issues: 

Farming

Farm Policy