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Congress Continues Scrutiny of Discriminatory USDA Practices
WASHINGTON, DC - Today a subcommittee for Congress’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform convened a hearing on “Management of Civil Rights at the United States Department of Agriculture”. The...
As Congress Finalizes Farm Bill Deal EWG Lists Recipients of Controversial Direct Payment Subsidies for 2007
By any measure, 2007 was a banner year for farmers of grain, soybeans and cotton, as high prices for their crops earned them record net income, even after they paid skyrocketing costs for fuel...
In Recession, Big Bucks for Big Farms
Over the next few weeks, some American couples will get $1,200 of their own money back from Washington. This is the maximum, one-time tax rebate Congress provided last February in their desperate...
Senate Set to Debate the Farm Bill, EWG Presses for Reforms
After weeks of haggling, the Senate is set to deliberate on the 2007 Farm Bill. The Environmental Working Group, along with a diverse coalition of groups, is advocating for reform of wasteful...
EWG Calls on Congressional Leadership to Oppose Shortsighted Renewable Fuel Standards Proposal
Today, the Environmental Working Group sent the attached letter to Congressional leadership expressing opposition to the reported Renewable Fuels package in the Energy Bill.
Media Advisory
Members of the media are invited to join Indiana Senator Richard Lugar and EWG president Ken Cook on Thursday, November 1st for a press conference announcing the launch of the EWG report on Direct...
A Disaster Waiting To Happen…Forever
A bid to establish a dedicated trust fund to compensate farmers and ranchers who suffer weather damage to crops and livestock would direct most of the funds to a handful of states where agricultural...
Required conservation practices poorly monitored, farmers consistently denied conservation money, large farms continue to reap l
As the five major commodity crops reap billions in taxpayer dollars each year, nearly 70 percent of farmer requests for voluntary conservation assistance go unfunded and soil erosion rules for subsidy...
Widening Farm Subsidy Gap Is Leaving Black Farmers Further Behind
Black farmers receive between one-third to one-sixth of the benefits under major federal crop subsidy programs that other farmers receive, and the “subsidy gap” has widened over the past decade.
Naming (1.5 Million) Names
A new Web site, developed by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) from millions of previously unpublished USDA subsidy records and released today, provides nearly full disclosure of federal farm...
Power Drain
Some of America's richest and largest farms are paying pennies for the vast amounts of electricity needed to deliver irrigation water to California's arid Central Valley.
EWG President Ken Cook Testifies Before Congressional Committee
Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook testified today before the US House of Representatives Agricultural Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research. Using previously...
USDA Report: Corn Plantings May be Highest Since World War II
It's one thing to have an ethanol boom in the Corn Belt. An ethanol blow-out is another thing altogether.
Study Finds Thousands Receive Farm Disaster Aid At Least Every Other Year for Over Two Decades
Pressure is building in Congress for pre-election enactment of a $6.55 billion farm disaster aid bill, by far the most expensive such measure in history.
Cook vs. Combest Debates?
Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook today challenged one the nation's most ardent and articulate defenders of status quo farm subsidy programs to a nationwide series of policy debates...
Bonus Subsidy 2006
A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis identifies and posts online prospective recipients of a pending $1.5 billion crop subsidy bonus that is contained in an emergency spending bill the...
Bonus Subsidy Unfair, Wasteful
A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis identifies and posts online prospective recipients of a pending $1.5 billion crop subsidy bonus that is contained in an emergency spending bill the...
Farm Subsidy Reform Key to Restoring Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone"
Each year, an average of $270 million worth of wasted fertilizer flows down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, creating a "Dead Zone" of more than 5,000 square miles that is completely...
Senator Chambliss' Agriculture Proposal Would Extend Wasteful Farm Subsidy Programs for 4 Years
In advance of Thursday morning's mark-up of budget reconciliation measures in the Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) proposed to extend bloated, highly controversial U...
How Big Ag Taps Into Taxpayers' Pockets -- Twice
Some of America's richest agribusinesses are double dipping from U.S. taxpayers' pockets at a rate of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) computer...