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The nation's organic food sector is far too dependent on imports to meet the growing demand for organic here at home. Although organic food accounts for more than 5 percent of total U.S. food sales...

Farm pollution poses a serious threat to drinking water supplies, and too much federal conservation spending has been squandered. Fortunately, the 2018 Farm Bill includes important reforms that will...

Scott Faber, senior vice president of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group, issued the following statement today following final passage of the farm bill by Congress.

EWG News Roundup (11/30): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

The heavy rains and high waters after Hurricane Florence flooded 35 industrial poultry operations in North Carolina housing an estimated 1.8 million birds, according to a new investigation by...

Farm bailout payments intended to offset the impacts of President Trump's trade war have instead flowed to more than 1,000 “city slickers” who live in the nation's largest cities, an EWG analysis of...

EWG News Roundup (11/16) - Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Cities across the nation are fighting a provision in the House of Representatives' version of the federal farm bill that would block cities, counties and school districts from restricting the use of...

Farm subsidies should help farmers, not billionaires and beach bums, right?

EWG News Roundup (11/9): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Nearly 20,000 people living in the nation's 50 largest cities received federal farm subsidies in 2017, according to a new EWG analysis.

EWG News Roundup (10/26): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

News Roundup (10/19): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

News Roundup (10/12): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Under President Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency has repeatedly betrayed its responsibility to safeguard the health of children. But in recent weeks, the hostile actions of the president and...

Hurricane Michael is rapidly advancing toward Florida, raising concerns that the storm could worsen and spread the red tide that is plaguing a 145-mile stretch of the state's Gulf Coast. Although...

EWG News Roundup (10/5): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG found that 245 people who have received taxpayer-funded farm subsidies or disaster payments for 32 straight years currently reside in the nation's 50 largest cities, according to an analysis of...

Residents of communities near industrial-scale hog farms in North Carolina face an increased risk of potentially deadly diseases, Duke University scientists reported in a study released this week.

This summer, EWG is tracking outbreaks of potentially toxic algae across the U.S. We have been startled to find that these outbreaks are erupting everywhere: from the East Coast to the West Coast...