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When it comes to PFOA, an extremely potent toxic chemical formerly used to make Teflon, President Trump's nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency has a sticky history...

Before he became President Trump's pick to oversee the nation's chemical safety, Michael Dourson argued for a weak drinking water standard for a rocket fuel chemical that impairs babies' developing...

Michael Dourson, President Trump's nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency, has made his career being paid by polluters – like Monsanto, Dow, DuPont and the Koch...

When you think of chloroform, your thoughts may drift to faint memories of 1970s television shows in which a villain knocks out their victim with chloroform-soaked cloth.

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EWG's just-released Tap Water Database shows that a startling number of cancer-causing chemicals contaminate the nation's drinking water. Of 250 different contaminants detected in tests by local...

Water supplies for more than 7 million Americans in 27 states are contaminated with an industrial chemical at levels higher than what federal scientists say poses a minimal lifetime risk of cancer...

When it comes to your drinking water, getting a passing grade from the federal government may not be good enough.

Flame retardants found in everyday consumer products such as furniture could decrease a woman's fertility, and ability to conceive and have a healthy delivery, new research from the Harvard T.H. Chan...

When it comes to farm subsidies, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., says his farmers should “receive the long-term certainty they deserve.”

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The cellphone industry is pushing laws to take away local governments' rights to decide whether or where to allow facilities for high-speed wireless networks that use a technology whose health effects...

More than 3 million acres of soybeans and other crops were damaged when a herbicide called dicamba drifted onto their fields, according to a just-published report in The Washington Post on the “arms...

Atrazine, a widely used agricultural weedkiller that disrupts hormones, contaminates tap water supplies for about 7.6 million Americans at potentially harmful levels. But the federal government is...

For many of us, Labor Day is one of the last hurrahs of the summer. And it's a busy travel weekend, with roughly 35 million Americans taking a getaway.

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It has been roughly three weeks since we released EWG's new national drinking water database, and the response from consumers and media outlets has been sweeping and sustained.

We'd like to thank Rob Fraley, chief technology official at Monsanto, who's largely responsible for introducing genetically modified foods to the U.S. and Big Ag's surge in pesticide use that ensued.