EWG’s Anne Schechinger discusses a new study using aerial imagery to map Iowa’s animal feeding operations

How a remarkable activist went from working for Exxon during the famous spill, to the Peace Corps, to Fighting Factory Farms

The Senate Agriculture Committee passed a farm bill Wednesday, leaving out the Save Our Bacon Act.

In 1998, hog prices collapsed and Chris Petersen lost the family farm. This week, he stood in a barn near Elkhart and said US Rep. Ashley Hinson's "Save Our Bacon Act" could do it again to the Iowa fa...

The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival

If Congress is to tackle issues from DOGE sabotage to AI to social media, it needs to resurrect its Office of Technology Assessment.

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Hinson's Save Our Bacon Act would stop states from setting conditions on livestock products sold inside their borders. Iowa hog and dairy farmers stood in a field in Elkhart and said it would punish t...

Some Iowa producers argue the Save Our Bacon Act will harm farmers by taking away diversified markets and by sending a message to consumers.

The Save Our Bacon Act, which would override hundreds of state food safety laws, has triggered bipartisan revulsion. But the pork industry wants it so they can keep confining pigs.

Some Iowa producers argue the Save Our Bacon Act will harm farmers by taking away diversified markets and by sending a message to consumers.

A lover of forests, the farmer, author and former English professor died on Thursday, according to his family and the New York Times. He was 92.

A new book details the scale of the administrative burdens we face

Safety experts say a lack of inspectors and other cutbacks could result in more farmworker deaths and injuries.

Antitrust case started out aiming to force the concert giant to sell Ticketmaster. After two White House meetings, a deal kept the company intact.

The battle for the Senate is about to intensify ahead of the traditional Labor Day starting gun. Republicans still retain a structural advantage given the partisan challenges of the map, and Democrats still need almost every key race to break their way. But as we recently wrote, in a wave election akin to 2006, even states that President Donald Trump won by double digits could move within Democrats’ reach.

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The International Agency for Research on Cancer has labeled the product’s main ingredient ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’ since 2015.

One interesting thing about the political landscape in 2026 is that Democrats are looking surprisingly competitive in statewide races in Iowa. even relative to the favorable national context. Accordin...

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Democrats see an opening in rural states for the first time in decades. In Iowa, it’s about water.

For decades, the case for clean energy was rooted primarily in climate policy. Today, it is just as much about geopolitics.

In press conference comments today, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened that...

In a study across four European countries, researchers find that public acceptance of genome editing depends on clear animal welfare benefits, fairness, transparency, and trust, with notable cross-country variation in specific concerns.

Iowa – the nation’s top hog producer – had more than 15,000 factory farms in 2025 producing over 107 million tons of manure, a first-of-its-kind EWG analysis finds.

For years, national conversations about cancer have often focused on the so-called “Cancer Alley” in the Deep South or Appalachian states with high smoking rates. But recently, a different state has g...

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Justice Department lawyers said the courts are powerless to intervene in the dispute over the former East Wing.

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