Trouble Downstream: Upgrading Conservation Compliance
Yesterday, EWG released a new report detailing the failings of current conservation programs and it is already gaining notice.
Arkansas Democrat Gazette - Farmland erosion expands dead zone
Agricultural erosion this year in the Mississippi River basin has helped create the third-largest “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico’s history, according to a report released Monday by the Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D. C.-based nonprofit.
Des Moines Register - Environmentalists urge farm runoff crackdown
“It’s high time for Congress to require more environmental protection in exchange for farm subsidies, especially now, when budgets are tight, and there isn’t enough money to solve problems with the conventional voluntary cost-share approach,” said Michelle Perez, a senior analyst for the Washington-based Environmental Working Group and the report’s chief author.
Reuters - U.S. farmers should curb fertilizer runoff: study
In light of the boom in fuel ethanol, EWG said conservation compliance should be expanded to cover all land eligible for federal crop subsidies and to cover nutrient runoff "associated with the increase in agricultural biofuels production."
