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Farm Subsidies Lead to Ocean Pollution, Researchers Say
New Standard, Jessica Azulay Published April 11, 2006 Every summer, a huge swell of algae spreads through the Gulf of Mexico and then dies, smothering aquatic life in its wake. Scientists have...
Small percentage of rural counties contribute to fertilizer pollution
Chicago Tribune, Andrew Martin Published April 9, 2006 A new study on Monday found that a relatively small percentage of rural counties – many of them in Illinois – are contributing most of the...
New EWG Analysis Says Nitrogen Pollution a Fixable Problem
Farm Futures, Jacqui Fatka Published April 9, 2006 Nitrate pollution in the Mississippi River Basin is a growing problem, creating a Dead Zone downstream for marine wildlife. A new analysis from the...
Report: Fertilizer is killing Gulf fish
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Nancy Cole Published April 10, 2006 Farmers in 15 northeast Arkansas counties are among the top contributors of fertilizer pollution that creates a "dead zone" of more than...
Dead zone linked to farm subsidies
New Orleans Times-Picayune, Matthew Brown Published April 16, 2006 Louisiana's fishing industry faces an uncertain future after the pounding it took last hurricane season, but fishers know one thing...
First shot in the 2007 farm bill debate?
Delta Farm Press, David Bennett Published May 4, 2006 In what could be the first significant shot fired in the 2007 farm bill debate, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released a report on how...
Report highlights reasons
Minnesota Pilot-Independent, Babe Winkelman Published June 19, 2006 What grows larger with each passing summer and is roughly the size of New Jersey? The answer: the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico...
Time to help the 'dead zone'
Peoria Journal Star, Steve Tarter Published June 25, 2006 It's an area the size of Connecticut that fails to harbor aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Dead Zone
Aberdeen American, Larry Gabriel Published August 24, 2006 If you have not heard of it, you will. The mass media is blaming "agriculture" for a predicted increase in the size of the so-called "dead...
Fertilizer runoff creates 'Dead Zone' in Gulf
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Bill Lambrecht Published June 14, 2007 There was hope for a cure down in the Louisiana bayous even as the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone expanded like a B-movie blob.
Curb Farm-Payment Excesses
Des Moines Register Published July 14, 2007 Work on the 2007 farm bill comes at an exciting time for agriculture in America. Adding energy crops as a third major source of income, along with food and...
Westland's Water Subsidies More Corporate Welfare
Bakersfield Californian, Bill Walker Published October 29, 2005 In his recent Community Voices column, the president of Westlands Water District blasted Environmental Working Group's investigation of...
New Law Lets Black Farmers Seek Claims
Gannett News Service (Detroit Free Press), Doug Abrahms Published June 4, 2008 Robert Harrold missed the 2000 deadline for filing a benefit discrimination claim against the U.S. Department of...
House Farm Bill: A Missed Opportunity for Leadership and Real Reform
Statement of Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson, Ranking Member Bob Goodlatte, members of their committee, and their staffs, are to be...
Disaster Aid Fund for Farmers to Get Push
Farm state senators, confronting an increasing struggle to win special disaster assistance for farmers, today will push for creation of a permanent disaster aid trust fund. The Senate Finance...
Addition to climate bill: Cash for no-till farming
Washington, D.C. - Some growers could get payments just to keep farming the way they already are, under changes being made to a House climate bill. Farm groups won provisions in the legislation that...
Farm Bill Conservation Plan Facing Cuts
Argus Leader, Faith Bremner Published September 10, 2008 Senate Democrats are about to renege on an earlier plan to give more money to programs that pay farmers and ranchers to protect wildlife...
Conservation Programs May Get Less Money Than Specified in Farm Bill
Des Moines Register, Philip Brasher Published September 10, 2008 The new farm bill has barely taken effect and the Democrat-controlled Senate is already moving to shrink spending levels for some land...
Environmental group: Target U.S. aid at most polluted waters in Iowa
Des Moines Register , PHILIP BRASHER Published May 29, 2009 Washington, D.C. - Government conservation money in Iowa should be targeted to farms in areas that pollute the Mississippi River basin and...