Ken Cook
Ken Cook
Ken Cook is president and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment. Cook has written dozens of articles, opinion pieces, and reports on environmental, public health, and agricultural topics. He has been an active lobbyist for over 20 years...
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The whole system is tilted to a handful of big farm operations, and everybody else comes up short,
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It's a pretty big storm system. It's really tapping the moisture from the Gulf and the sheer strength of the storm is leading to really heavy snow.
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I wouldn't say it's atypical for the time of year. This time of the year you get real strong storms and they're starting to track a little further south.
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Once members of Congress see just how much they would stand to gain by a fairer distribution, I think that will help shift the debate.
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We will watch it very carefully. We're taking nothing for granted.
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We can't make up the difference in the export market, and the taxpayers are on the hook.