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Environmental advocates spoke to reporters and answered questions on a report urging greater environmental protections as a prerequisite for future subsidies and to reject efforts to cut fun…

Witnesses testified about the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules to limit a pair of toxic chemicals that had been found in public water supplies. The chemicals chromium-6 and perchlorat…

Representatives from non-profit organizations testified on the use of dispersants in the clean up of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Among the topics they addressed were the effects on the env…

Kenneth Cook and a panel spoke about the world food crisis, rising costs of commodities, economic conditions, and efforts to feed the hungry. Following their remarks they responded to questi…

Michael Pollan moderated a panel discussion of the 2007 farm bill being debated in Congress. Among the topics addressed were federal agriculture policy, labor and immigration issues, the use…

David Boaz and Ken Cook talked about current news stories of interest to them and responded to audience calls, faxes, and electronic mail.

Officials of environmental and consumer groups joined Representative Charles Schumer, D-New Your, in briefing reporters on their perspectives on reforms in farm programs, including subsidies…

Participants talked to reporters about a report on herbicidal contamination in drinking water in 29 cities around the nation.

The Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Espy, met with members of Congress and academicians to participate in the Farm Income Policy forum sponsored by the Department of Agriculture. The speakers…