USDA's conservation programs are the single largest investment of federal taxpayer's dollars to encourage farmers to adopt practices that improve natural resources and the environment. 

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EWG works to find innovative ways to protect your health and environment while ensuring a sustainable future for America’s working farmers.

Factory Farms

Large-scale agriculture isn’t just a nuisance, but a health threat to the people living nearby — disproportionately people of color and low-income communities. 

Farm Pollution

Conventional agriculture can pollute rivers, lakes and tap water with unsafe levels of toxic chemicals. EWG offers science-based information to learn more.

Food & Farm Workers

America’s food system relies on food and farm workers, who often have little to no protection against diseases like COVID-19. EWG wants to fix the system.
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Subsidies

EWG’s Farm Subsidy Database reveals that taxpayers are mostly supporting big, rich farms, not sustainable family farms that truly need help. We’re working to change the broken system.

Toxic Algae

Lakes, reservoirs, rivers and streams are critical sources of drinking water. But they’re threatened by toxic algae blooms, fueled by polluted runoff from farms and made worse by climate change.