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Farm Bailout Payments Could Ignite New Front in Trade War
Escaping Quarantine? Watch Out for Toxic Algae
With summer beginning and millions of Americans experiencing what feels like the thousandth week of quarantine, enjoying the outdoors is one of the few ways many of us can escape the claustrophobia...
COVID-19 Spreading to Food Processing Facilities Across the U.S.
As Meat Prices Soar in Pandemic, Try These Healthier High-Protein Foods
Meat and poultry processing plants are hot spots for COVID-19 outbreaks, constricting the supply chains for beef, chicken and pork – and sending their prices soaring.
USDA Pandemic Bailout Funds Will Go to Largest, Wealthiest Farms
This week the Department of Agriculture unveiled a pandemic relief initiative that will give farmers $16 billion in direct payments. Just like the Market Facilitation Program, or MFP, which gave $23...
National Potato Giant Uses Obscure Leasing Scheme To Skirt Environmental Oversight in Minnesota
One of the nation's largest industrial agriculture operations is hiding behind a small family farm to try to avoid environmental oversight of a plan to clear-cut pristine Minnesota forestland for a...
Investigation: Counties With Meatpacking Plants Report Twice the National Average Rate of COVID-19 Infections
Work Conditions Make Farmworkers Uniquely Vulnerable to COVID-19
COVID-19 Farm Bailout Funds Should Help Farmworkers, Not Big Farmers
Congress should direct the Department of Agriculture to use COVID-19 relief funds to ensure that farmworkers –not big farmers – have protections, free testing and paid sick leave.
Trump’s Farm Relief Won’t Protect Essential Farmworkers From COVID-19
In a Pandemic, Farmworkers Deserve a Raise, Not a Pay Cut
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, farmworkers are risking their lives to feed us. So why are some officials in the Trump administration and some Republicans in Congress trying to cut farmworkers'...
What if Lots of Food and Farm Workers Get Sick at the Same Time?
EWG Sends Open Letter to Produce Industry: Do More to Protect Consumers and Farmworkers from Pathogens and Pesticides
New Study Raises Concern About Airborne Exposure to Toxic Algae Blooms
Studies of the health hazards of toxic algae blooms have focused largely on the danger of direct contact with contaminated water in lakes, rivers and the ocean. Now a new study shows that even...
Toxic Algae Blooms Now a Year-Round Problem
Florida health officials are warning of an unusually early outbreak of blue-green algae on the Caloosahatchee River, a popular tourist area on the state's southwestern Gulf Coast.
EWG’s Most-Read Stories of 2019 – And Some You May Have Missed
Trump Cuts Food Stamps for Hungry Americans, But Handouts to Rich Farmers Keep Coming
Just in time for Christmas, the Trump administration has finalized a rule to kick 700,000 hungry Americans off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly called food stamps – the...
Trump’s Hollow Promise of Trade-War Relief for Small Farms
EWG News Roundup (10/4): PFAS Taints Military Bases, California Adopts Law To Protect People From Lead in Jewelry, and More
EWG News Roundup (10/4): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG News Roundup (9/27): ‘Forever Chemicals’ in California, Electric Cars Draw Ire of Big Oil and More
EWG News Roundup (9/27): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.