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EPA Chief Scraps Scheduled Ban of Pesticide That Harms Kids’ Brains
In one of his first major decisions as Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt sided with the pesticide lobby over scientists in an eleventh-hour decision to abort the agency's...
EWG Report: How Congress Can Help Farmers Meet Soaring Demand for Organic Food
Despite the rapid growth of the organic food industry, U.S. production lags significantly behind consumer demand. A new report from EWG shows that with modest reforms to existing programs, Congress...
From Satellite Imagery, EWG's First-Ever Analysis of Cover Crops in U.S. Corn Belt
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving farmers millions of taxpayer dollars a year to support the planting of cover crops, which reduce polluted runoff from farm fields. To see how this...
Trump Plan to Gut Stream Protections Imperils Tap Water for 117 Million Americans
President Trump's executive order calling for the gutting of the Clean Water Rule puts the drinking water of 117 million Americans at risk, according to a nationwide county-by-county analysis by the...
Plate of the Union: New Campaign Will Activate Consumers for Healthy Food and Sustainable Farm Policy
Every five years, the government passes an almost-trillion-dollar piece of legislation that profoundly impacts food and farm policy. For decades, big agribusiness has dominated the process, with its...
Despite Pruitt’s Cleanup Claims, Factory Chicken Farms Still Threaten Okla. Water
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, claims he made great progress in protecting the state's water from pollution by factory...
Fields of Filth: First Inventory of Hurricane’s Impact on N.C. Factory Farms
Hurricane Matthew's rampage through North Carolina's coastal plain flooded more than 140 feces-strewn swine and poultry barns, more than a dozen open pits brimming with hog waste and thousands of...
New EWG Database Details $30 Billion Spent on U.S. Farm Conservation Programs
In the last decade, U.S. taxpayers have sent $30 billion to farmers and landowners to fund federal conservation programs to protect public health and the environment, according to data obtained...
Think U.S. Agriculture Will End World Hunger? Think Again, Says New Report
U.S. agribusiness spokesmen routinely defend practices that pollute air and water, and destroy soil by claiming that American farmers are doing what it takes to “feed the world.”
Fields of Filth: Landmark Report Maps Feces-Laden Hog and Chicken Operations in North Carolina
A first-of-its-kind interactive map revealing the locations of more than 6,500 concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, across the state of North Carolina was released today by Waterkeeper...
National Academy of Sciences Urges Greater GMO Transparency
Today's National Academy of Sciences report on genetically engineered foods takes a major policy step in calling on the food and agriculture industries to increase transparency regarding GMO foods...
Statement of EWG’s Scott Faber on Passage of DARK Act by Senate Agriculture Committee
The Environmental Working Group issued the following statement today after the Senate Agriculture Committee narrowly passed a version of the House-adopted Deny Americans the Right to Know, or DARK Act...
New Report Shows Farmers Win Big on Crop Insurance
Most farmers collect more money in crop insurance payouts than they pay in premiums on their federal policies over time, making the term “insurance” a misnomer, according to a new report from EWG.
Budget Proposal Would Reform Broken Crop Insurance Program
Proposed cuts to crop insurance and other expensive farm subsidy programs in the Obama administration's 2017 budget would be good for taxpayers and the environment, EWG said in a statement today.
Voluntary Conservation Practices Are a Fool’s Errand
A new EWG report reveals the fatal flaw in the voluntary approach to cutting pollution from farm fields: Farmers who voluntarily start pollution control practices can just as easily stop.
Study: Monsanto’s Glyphosate Most Heavily Used Weed-Killer in History
Monsanto's signature herbicide glyphosate, first marketed as “Roundup,” is now the most widely and heavily applied weed-killer in the history of chemical agriculture in both the U.S. and globally...
Farm Bill “Reforms” Fall Flat as Crop Subsidies Soar in New Projections
Despite promises from Congress that reforms to the farm subsidy program would save taxpayers money, spending on subsidies will soar in the next three years, according to new government spending...
Fewer Taxpayer Giveaways Would Cut the Fat, Not ‘Cripple’ Crop Insurance
The proposed $3 billion cut in crop insurance subsidies in the recent federal budget deal would not “kill the crop insurance program,” contrary to claims by the crop insurance industry and its allies...
Crop Insurance: An Annual Disaster for Taxpayers and the Environment
EWG's new analysis found that the federal crop insurance program is much more costly to taxpayers and more harmful to the environment than the disaster payment program it has largely replaced. EWG...
Proposal Would Reform Bloated Crop Insurance Program
Legislation introduced in Congress today would ease the burden placed on taxpayers and the environment by the bloated federal crop insurance program, according to the Environmental Working Group.
