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Farm Bill Amendment Limits Crop Insurance Subsidies for Big Farmers

Thursday, May 23, 2013
Washington, D.C. – Environmental Working Group applauds the Senate for passing a farm bill reform amendment offered by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) that would limit crop insurance premium subsidies for farmers with an adjusted gross income of more than $750,000. EWG’s Senior...
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Food

EWG President Ken Cook Weighs In On Senate Chemical Policy Reform Bill

Thursday, May 23, 2013
The Chemical Safety Improvement Act introduced by Sens. David Vitter, R-La., and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., is an “unacceptably weak response to the chemical exposure problems American families face every day,” Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, said today.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Chemical Policy

Canada plans strong sunscreen warnings

Thursday, May 23, 2013
The Canadian government has proposed sunscreen rules much stronger than those governing U.S. sunscreens. Because numerous companies are major players in both the Canadian and United States markets, if Canada’s planned rules take effect, they could prompt welcome changes in sunscreens sold in the U.S.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Consumer Products
Cosmetics
Sunscreens

New Analysis Finds Bloated Crop Insurance Subsidies

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
WASHINGTON -- EWG’s 2013 Farm Subsidy Database, launched today, documents that free-spending federal crop insurance subsidies are badly in need of reform. The new data detail $292.5 billion in subsidies paid from 1995 through 2012, including $53.6 billion in crop insurance subsidies. View the data...
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Subsidies
Farm Policy

Obama Backs Crop Insurance Reform, Conservation Compliance

Monday, May 20, 2013
The Environmental Working Group welcomes the Obama administration’s willingness to work with Congress to find savings in the bloated federal crop insurance program and require the program’s subsidy recipients to carry out basic conservation practices.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Food

EWG’s 2013 Guide to Sunscreens: What to Use, What to Lose

Monday, May 20, 2013
Ahead of the Memorial Day holiday, Environmental Working Group today released its 7th annual Sunscreen Guide rating the safety and efficacy of more than 1,400 sunscreens, lotions, lip products and makeups that advertise sun protection.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Consumer Products
Cosmetics
Children’s Products
Sunscreens

AFFIRM Act Cuts Wasteful Insurance Subsidies, Increases Transparency

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Reps. Ron Kind (D-Wis.) and Tom Petri (R-Wis.) today introduced the Assisting Family Farmers through Insurance Reform Measures Act (AFFIRM), common sense legislation that will reform the heavily subsidized crop insurance system in order to level the playing field for family farmers, improve transparency for taxpayers and protect the environment for future generations.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Food

Fracking Bill Gains Bipartisan Support

Thursday, May 9, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.) reintroduced the bipartisan Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act of 2013 – a bill that Rep. DeGette first introduced in 2008. The bill would require drillers to obtain permits under the Safe...
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Key Issues: 
Energy
Fracking
Oil & Gas Drilling

Farm Bill Proposal Increases Subsidies for Big Farmers

Thursday, May 9, 2013
The farm bill draft released today by the Senate Agriculture Committee contains the same flawed provisions as the 2012 Senate-passed bill that increase unlimited crop insurance subsidies to the largest and most successful farm businesses.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Food

Bill Would Modernize Conservation Programs in Farm Bill

Thursday, May 9, 2013
Environmental Working Group (EWG) applauds Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and the other co-sponsors of the Balancing Food, Farm and the Environment Act for recognizing that our land, our food, and our farms are all worth protecting.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Subsidies
Environment
Food
Local & Sustainable

Conservation Reforms Needed to Protect Environment and Drinking Water

Wednesday, May 8, 2013
A new analysis by Environmental Working Group underscores the need to reform the nation’s primary land restoration program for long-term protection of wetlands, prairies and other lands that protect drinking water and wildlife habitat.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Environment
Food
Water
Tap Water

Chef Tom Colicchio and EWG Launch “Worth Protecting” Campaign

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Environmental Working Group (EWG) today launched the Worth Protecting social media and advocacy campaign to underscore the need for federal farm bill reforms that protect public health and the environment and support future generations of family farmers.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Subsidies
Farm Policy
Environment
Food
Local & Sustainable

EWG Stands with San Francisco on Cell Phone Radiation Right-to-Know

Monday, May 6, 2013
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected to accept a settlement with the cell phone trade association tomorrow (Tuesday, May 7) to bring to an end a long legal battle over the city's groundbreaking right-to-know ordinance on cell phone radiation.
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Key Issues: 
Consumer Products
Cell Phones

Taxpayers Paid $7 Billion Too Much for Crop Insurance Last Year

Wednesday, May 1, 2013
A new analysis commissioned by the Environmental Working Group debunks the myth that federally-subsidized crop insurance will save taxpayers money and protect farmers from crippling losses when natural disasters occur.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Subsidies

Legislation Would Require Clear Labeling of GE Food

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Environmental Working Group applauds Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) for introducing the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, bipartisan legislation that would require food manufacturers to clearly label genetically engineered (GE) foods.
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Key Issues: 
Food

Consumers Deserve to Know the Facts about Antibiotics and Meat

Monday, April 22, 2013
The federal Food and Drug Administration has posted a statement on its website criticizing the Environmental Working Group’s report, Superbugs Invade American Supermarkets , published April 15. The agency contends that EWG oversimplified data from the federal government’s 2011 Retail Meat Report, a joint project of the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Key Issues: 
Food
Healthy Eating

Apples Top EWG's Dirty Dozen

Monday, April 22, 2013
Apples top the Environmental Working Group's annual Dirty Dozen™ list of most pesticide-contaminated produce, followed by strawberries, grapes and celery. Other fresh fruits and vegetables on the new Dirty Dozen list, a part of EWG's 2013 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ are peaches, spinach, sweet bell peppers, imported nectarines, cucumbers, potatoes, cherry tomatoes and hot peppers.
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Key Issues: 
Food
Local & Sustainable
Healthy Eating
Chemicals in Food

Superbugs Invade America’s Supermarket Meat

Monday, April 15, 2013
The latest round of tests by federal scientists, quietly published in February , has documented startlingly high percentages of supermarket meat containing antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a new Environmental Working Group analysis .
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Key Issues: 
Farming

Reform Bill Paves the Way for Cleaner Biofuels

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Bipartisan legislation introduced today to eliminate the federal requirement to blend corn ethanol into gasoline would pave the way for cleaner biofuels, said Environmental Working Group Vice President for Government Affairs Scott Faber.
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Key Issues: 
Energy
Biofuels
Farming
Farm Policy
Environment

Lautenberg Renews Drive to Protect Public from Toxic Chemicals

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Legislation introduced today by Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.) would overhaul the way synthetic chemicals are regulated. Lautenberg’s proposal would for the first time place the burden of proof on chemical companies to ensure the substances they create in the lab are safe for human health and the environment before they are allowed on the market.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Chemical Policy

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