Press Release

On Eve of Home & Garden Show, Local Ag Group Calls For Full Disclosure On Fertilizer Ingredients

As the Twin Minneapolis Home & Garden Show opens this week, a local sustainable agriculture organization is calling on fertilizer makers to disclose all of the ingredients in their products.

Farmers & Consumers Kept in the Dark As Toxic Metals Found in Minnesota Fertilizers

As "spring fever" takes hold and farmers and gardeners are preparing their soil for planting, many Minnesotans are unwittingly purchasing fertilizers made from industrial toxic waste.

Farmers & Consumers Kept in the Dark As Toxic Metals Found in Minnesota Fertilizers

As "spring fever" takes hold and farmers and gardeners are preparing their soil for planting, many Minnesotans are unwittingly purchasing fertilizers made from industrial toxic waste.

Johannesburg Summit Concludes With Mixed Results

Statement of Kristin Dawkins, Vice President of Global Programs at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, on the World Summit on Sustainable Development being held in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Johannesburg Summit Concludes With Mixed Results

Former UNC Health Policy Analyst Warns State Officials on Link between Slaughterhouse Expansion and Antibiotic Resistance

KAW testimony in North Carolina by a former UNC health policy analyst warning state officials on link between slaughterhouse expansion and antibiotic resistance.

A Fertilizer That Contaminates

Ironite is one fertilizer that bills itself as a "natural soil supplement . . . popular choice for home, lawn and garden for 43 years. Nothing greens like Ironite. Will not burn." Ironite is made from a 60 acre pile of mine tailings located at a Superfund-nominate site. Testing by state agencies in Washington and Minnesota in 1998 and 1999 found dangerously high levels of arsenic and lead.

Top Environmental Attorney Joins KAW Campaign as New Director

Press release announcing the hiring of Peter Coppelman, the former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Resources Division of the Justice Department during the Clinton administration, as the new director of KAW.

KAW Campaign Praises Kennedy Introduction of Bill to Fight Antibiotic Resistance

Press release praising U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy for his introduction of a bill that would phase out the routine feeding of medically important antibiotics to healthy farm animals.

Fishing Opener Raises Questions About Polluted Fish

Minnesota's annual Walleye fishing opener this Saturday should be a wake-up call for the urgent need to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants and other top industrial sources, says the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, the Sierra Club and Clean Water Action Alliance.