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Crop Insurance Subsidies Could Provide Bumper Crop of Budget Savings
Reducing subsidies to large farm businesses, crop insurance companies and their agents, and trimming their windfall profits could generate enormous savings, EWG has found.
In Defense of Billionaires
Millennial Momentum
I am a millennial – one of the roughly 50 million Americans born after 1980 and coming of age in the 21st Century. Generational theorists have called me lazy, narcissistic and entitled. But they've...
Stewardship Stories Document Benefits – For Taxpayers and Farmers
Every day, thousands of farmers take steps to reduce polluted runoff and restore wetlands and grasslands. Many more would help, but 40 percent of farmers have been turned away by the U.S. Department...
Subsidies and Ethanol Mandate Fuel Massive Dust Storms
Waxman, DeGette Urge White House To Curb Toxic Diesel in Fracking Fluid
Diesel fuels contain highly toxic chemicals, one of which is benzene, a known carcinogen. Even very small concentrations of benzene can contaminate water supplies. If benzene and other toxic chemicals...
Poverty Grows in Many Counties Alongside Higher Farm Subsidies
Belgium Boosts Cell Phone Radiation Safeguards
Belgium recently adopted new cell phone regulations that bar mobile phone models designed for, and marketed to children ages 7 and younger. Under Belgium's new rules, slated to take effect next March...
Chemical Agriculture on the Attack, Again
Keeping politicians on message can sometimes be difficult. That also holds true of corporate chiefs and movie stars. Even the most seasoned, media-savvy folks veer off their talking points on occasion...
Crop Insurance: A never-ending disaster
As the cost of crop insurance has ballooned – from less than $500 million a year in the 1990s to more than $14 billion in 2012[1] – the program's most ardent defenders keep repeating the same mantra...
At the Gym: Foam Pits Filled with Fire Retardants
A landmark study led by Courtney Carignan of the Dartmouth Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research has found that the blood of 11 female collegiate gymnasts ages 18...
EWG Lab Test, HBO Documentary Highlight Toxic Risk of Fire Retardants
Bipartisan Coalition Would Link Land Conservation to Farm Subsidies
From Sea to Shining Sea: Subsidy Millionaires Are Everywhere
World Series of Subsidies
Untapped: Farm Bill Conservation Programs Must Do More to Clean Up California's Water
Hundreds of millions of conservation dollars in the federal farm bill should be used more effectively to address widespread water pollution problems in California, concludes a new report by...
Should Foxes Build the Hen House?
Guest Blog: Toxic chemical reform must help, not hinder states and victims’ rights
In the United States, the framework for safeguarding people and the environment against the dangers of toxic chemicals comprises three mutually reinforcing legal systems: federal regulation, state and...
True Horror Stories Of Cosmetic Dangers
People will go to great lengths to be “beautiful,” and cosmetics companies know it. It was not until 1938 that Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which gave the FDA power to act...