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The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has revealed some $1.5 Billion in agricultural subsidies tucked away in a congressional emergency relief bill. The subsidies' supporters say they are designed to help farmers cope with rising fuel costs. But according to the EWG, "the majority of America's farmers, ranchers and rural residents will be excluded from the new subsidy, as the aid is funneled yet again to recipients of annual crop subsidies, who already collected a record $23 billion in 2005."