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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...
Time's running out to comment on water contract negotiations
Federal regulators are negotiating an agricultural water contract in the Central Valley, the latest of several dozen deals that could tie up water resources for the next 50 years. Thursday is the...
The California Water Wars: Water Flowing to Farms, Not Fish
After 50 years of legal infighting, a victor has emerged in California's water wars -- agriculture. A decade after environmentalists prevailed in getting more fresh water down the north state's rivers...
The Most Politically Powerful Welfare Recipients in the World
He was immortalized in Grant Wood's 1930 painting "American Gothic": a grim, hardscrabble stoic in overalls, grasping a pitchfork. Guess what? It wasn't really a farmer. It was Wood's dentist posing...
Toxic runoff disposal could imperil water
U.S. agency offers 3 options; critics prefer retiring farmland San Francisco Chronicle, Glen Martin Published November 1, 2005 A pending decision on the disposal of contaminated wastewater produced by...
Session will look at water contracts
Feds reopen talks after criticism from environmentalists. Fresno Bee, Staff Published January 14, 2006 Federal officials are reopening negotiations on the renewal of some farm water contracts after...
Cities and farmers fight over water rights
United Press International, Staff Published January 15, 2006 BIG SKY, Mont. -- Environmentalists, fishermen and city officials are challenging the farmers and ranchers who have long controlled water...
Tide of Sentiment Shifts in Water War
Traditional Favoritism to Agricultural Interests Is Challenged as Demand Increases Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin BIG SKY, Mont. -- A hundred years after the city of Los Angeles and San Fernando...
Gorillas in the Bay: Time to Face Facts in the Chesapeake
Press coverage last week of the latest federal proposals to clean up the Chesapeake Bay was good. But, an important piece of the puzzle was missing from the discussion.
Senate Budget Spares Crop Subsidies, Cuts Conservation Payments
E and E News/Greenwire, Allison Winter Published March 26, 2009 Farmland conservation programs could take a hit in the spending blueprint under discussion in the Senate Budget Committee.
Environmental group: Target U.S. aid at most polluted waters in Iowa
Des Moines Register, Philip Brasher Published May 29, 2009 Government conservation money in Iowa should be targeted to farms in areas that pollute the Mississippi River basin and cause a dead zone in...
Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay
A frayed regulatory framework and dependence on voluntary action has done little to mitigate the damage from agricultural activities in the six states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Lobbyists Lining Up For Shot at Climate Bill
The Hill, Jim Snyder Excerpt: Meanwhile, environmental groups are focusing on another delicate issue: carbon offsets.
At what price tuna?
By Olga Naidenko, EWG Senior Scientist How much does a can of tuna cost to an average shopper in a U.S. supermarket? Something like 33 cents a can, if you look hard enough and search for a good sale...
New Doubts About Roundup
As the East Coast monsoon season slogs on, there's carnage in the garden. The dandelions and plantains are elbowing the grass aside, and the morning glory vines are garrotting the daylilies. Over at...
Who's afraid of the White House garden?
Fresh fruits and vegetables for the First Family, school kids playing in the dirt at the White House. A reminder to Americans that food actually comes from the Earth - who's going to object to...
Not so green-- Green Revolution
Everybody knows that using one technique to solve a diverse set of problems often doesn't work. But somebody forgot to tell that to the creators of the Green Revolution.
Loopholes in Climate Bill “Offset” Provisions
The agriculture provisions of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) open two loopholes that threaten to let coal-fired power plants and other big climate polluters off the hook and slow...
