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Farmers, Labor, Green Groups United to Fight Cuts in Conservation Programs
Proposed budget cuts threaten half a billion dollars in federal grants to help U.S. farmers protect the environment, but an alliance of California agriculture, labor, and conservation groups are...
Will Black Farmers Finally See Justice?
Today (Feb 15th) may be the President's Day holiday, but for the president of the National Black Farmer's Association (NBFA) it's the culmination of a remarkable push to bring justice to thousands of...
Climate Change Far Greater Threat to Farmers Than Climate Legislation
Farm industry leaders and their supporters in Congress are trying to derail climate change legislation by insisting that the House-passed bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), will...
California Climate Change Policy Leaves Out Agriculture
California agriculture, which grows roughly 40 percent of America's food, faces grave threats spurred by climate change, including volatile weather, crippling drought and assaults by growing hordes of...
Gulf Dead Zone Cause and Cure Known, Action Still Required
A representative from the Washington, D.C. based Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been asked to present remarks to the Mississippi River Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force Public...
Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay
Despite a quarter of a century of effort by farmers, citizens, environmentalists, and government officials to address pollution in the streams, rivers and waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region...
67 of the Dirtiest Power Plants off the Hook in Current Climate Legislation
The American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), narrowly approved in the House, is an important first step toward slowing climate change.
EQIP Cuts Worse Than Expected
The US Geological Survey reported today that nutrient loading in the Gulf of Mexico will be among the highest measured in the past 30 years. This news underscores how decades of broken funding...
Seizing a Watershed Moment
Agriculture is a leading source of water pollution in the 10 states that border the Mississippi River. Agriculture is also the leading source of pollution causing the “Dead Zone” at the mouth of the...
Cutting Conservation Programs No Way to Fight Global Warming
President Obama's proposed budget continues the long string of broken promises that have left conservation programs billions short over the past two farm bills. While the White House and the US...
Obama Stands Firm on Push for Farm Program Reform
Making good on his promise to find savings in the federal budget, president Obama announced several proposed cuts today that could help reform a broken farm subsidy system. The most promising proposal...
USGS Identifies Top Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Polluting Watersheds
For the first time, the U.S. Geological Survey has identified the top 150 polluting watersheds in the Mississippi River Basin that cause the annual 8,000 square-mile “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico...
For Senator Conrad, Millionaire Subsidy Recipients Trump the Environment
Senate Budget committee chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) announced yesterday he would reject President Obama's plan to cut billions in crop subsidy payments that flow mostly to large profitable farm...
EWG Lauds Obama Pick for USDA’s No. 2 Job
Statement of Ken Cook President, Environmental Working Group Feburary 24, 2009 "President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack have done the public a great service by nominating Kathleen Merrigan...
California Air Resources Board Must Consider Impact of Agriculture
The Environmental Working Group's (EWG) West Coast office has written the California Air Resources Board pointing out deficiencies in its Climate Change Proposed Scoping Plan with respect to...
Millionaire Farmers Still Receiving Subsides Despite Attempts at Reform
In times of tight budgets and empty federal coffers, millionaires, large profitable farm operations and wealthy absentee landlords are still receiving federal farm subsidies, despite repeated attempts...
Pollution Solutions For Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Disaster
Nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from agriculture sources flowing from the Mississippi River is devastating the northern Gulf of Mexico and impacting human health, killing fish and limiting...
State-by-State Conservation Cuts
WASHINGTON – September 22, 2008. Today, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released a follow up report to Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill’s Passage that details the...
State by State EQIP Cuts
Today, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released a follow up report to Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill's Passage that details the proposed conservation program cuts...
Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill’s Passage
Behind the thin green gloss Congressional leaders spread across the subsidy-laden 2008 farm bill, the Democratic Congress is now hacking away at pledges to expand conservation and other environmental...