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Resolve to make your 2024 diet more environmentally friendly
New year, new you – but the same, if not worsening, climate crisis we’ve been experiencing. As you think ahead to resolutions and fresh starts in 2024, you can improve your own well-being and that of...
Do billionaires get farm subsidies?
Four ways to reduce emissions from food and farming
The EPA hasn’t banned this brain-damaging pesticide, so states are stepping up
USDA: Conservation backlogs grow despite new climate-smart funding
Triple dipping: Rice farmers received at least $3B from three types of taxpayer-funded programs
In the race for the plant-based foods market, the U.S. is falling behind
USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program needs reform to improve climate benefits
EWG: Schools near pesticide spray zones could lose health protections
Millionaire CEOs run companies getting billions from the federal Crop Insurance Program
Rice to riches: Sixteen rice farms padding their pockets with taxpayer dollars
Giving IRA conservation funds to farm subsidies threatens millions of cover crop acres
Despite record farm income and subsidies, some seek even more handouts
Pocket pickers: Eight cotton farms picking taxpayer pockets
Farm bill for the few?
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently pleaded with Congress to reform farm policies to serve the “many and the most,” not the few, citing data showing family farms lagging behind their bigger...
USDA conservation funding benefits all farmers, not just rice, cotton and peanut farmers
All farmers and ranchers – regardless of what they grow or where they live – can participate in Department of Agriculture conservation programs.
Update: Federal facilities struggle to routinely offer plant-based or vegetarian options
Despite new climate-smart funds, agricultural conservation programs remain oversubscribed
The Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, set aside $19.5 billion for agricultural conservation programs that pay farmers to implement conservation practices that reduce agriculture’s greenhouse gas...
Calls to increase crop reference prices would help fewer than 6,000 farmers
Some farm groups and legislators have proposed increasing price guarantees for major crops. But the higher price guarantees would mostly benefit fewer than 6,000 farms in a few states, EWG found.