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New USDA Subsidy Program Will Send Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Cotton Farmers
A new federal farm subsidy program for cotton growers could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Trump Embraces the Ag-Right
When Trump appears before the Farm Bureau today, he will be not speaking to America's farmers – he'll be preaching to his base. Photo courtesy of AP Photo
Do Cotton Farmers Need More Subsidies?
Once again, Congress is attempting to provide more subsidies to cotton farmers – this time in a bill designed to provide disaster relief to Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico.
USDA Confirms Subsidies Overwhelmingly Flow to Wealthiest Farmers
A new report from the Department of Agriculture confirmed what EWG has been saying for years: Farm subsidies overwhelmingly go to the largest and most successful farm businesses, instead of to...
Double Dipping: How Taxpayers Subsidize Farmers Twice for Crop Losses
Between 2014 and 2015, three federal farm subsidy programs paid farmers multiple times for the same loss in crop yield or decline in crop price.
Planting Trees Helped End the Dust Bowl. Crop Subsidies Reward Farmers Who Rip Them Out.
During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the federal government planted 220 million trees to stop the blowing soil that devastated the Great Plains.
Trapped on Monsanto’s Chemical Treadmill: Dicamba Debacle Shows Folly of Herbicide Arms Race
More than 3 million acres of soybeans and other crops were damaged when a herbicide called dicamba drifted onto their fields, according to a just-published report in The Washington Post on the “arms...
Filtering Lead Out of Chicago’s Drinking Water
6 Steps Toward the Greenest Farm Bill Ever
What would it take to make the 2018 federal Farm Bill the best ever for public health and the environment?
Trump’s Budget Unites Farmers and Foodies
President Trump's budget request managed to do something few could have imagined: unite farmers and foodies.
Is Federal Crop Insurance Policy Leading to Another Dust Bowl?
As the southern Great Plains get hotter and drier, is federal policy that encourages farmers not to adapt to climate change leading to another Dust Bowl?
Lawsuit Dismissal Spells Bad News for Iowa Water Quality
Central Iowans got bad news about the quality of their drinking water on Friday when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Des Moines Water Works against three northern Iowa drainage districts.
How Sonny Perdue Got a $100,000 Tax Break
How can you get your friend to give you a $100,000 tax break?
EWG News Roundup (3/3): Trump’s Budget Cuts, the Clean Water Rule and Neurotoxin in Hair Dye
Here's some news you can use as you begin your weekend.
EWG News Roundup (2/17): Pruitt’s Emails, DuPont’s $671M Teflon Settlement and Lead in Lipstick
Today, in a near-partisan vote, Scott Pruitt was confirmed as the next head of the Environmental Protection Agency. It's no secret that EWG opposed him for the job.
As Okla. Attorney General, EPA Nominee Did Nothing to Protect Oklahomans from Toxic Swine Waste
Oklahoma has a dangerous and widespread groundwater pollution problem caused by illegal discharges of toxic swine waste from industrial-scale swine Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs...
‘The Next American Farm Bust’? Chicken Littles Ignore the Facts
There they go again. In the run-up to the 2018 Farm Bill, agriculture interests are squawking that America is facing a new farm crisis – one that can only be staved off by billions more taxpayer...
EWG News Roundup (1/27): Trump’s Media Blackout at EPA, Okla. Enviros Push Back on Pruitt and More
The first week of the Trump administration is just about over, and what a week it's been. It started with a media blackout at EPA and a freeze on EPA grants to states and localities used to protect...
EWG News Roundup (1/20): Pruitt, Perdue, Big Poultry and Organics
Last weekend, EWG reported that after taking $40,000 in campaign contributions from poultry industry interests, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt – President Trump's nominee to head the...
Billions Spent on Farm Subsidies Don’t Lower Food Prices or Reduce Hunger
Last fall, an EWG investigation debunked the agriculture industry's claims that American farms “feed the world.” In fact, fewer than 1 percent of U.S. exports go toward feeding the hungriest nations.