Articles by Alex Formuzis
Trump May Hand Sarah Palin Keys to Nation’s Public Lands, Wildlife
“Drill, baby, drill!” During her failed bid for vice president in 2008, that was Sarah Palin's crowd-pleasing chant promoting her energy policy. Now the pithy catchphrase – and the former Alaska...
Arsenic, Pesticides, Chemicals in Kids? Trump Adviser Ebell and Breitbart Dismiss Concerns, Target EWG
Myron Ebell, head of President-elect Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency transition team, is a notorious denier of global warming whose biography unashamedly notes that activists consider...
Trump May Hand Sarah Palin Keys to Nation’s Public Lands, Wildlife
During her failed bid for vice president in 2008, that was Sarah Palin's crowd-pleasing chant promoting her energy policy. Now the pithy catchphrase – and the former Alaska governor herself – could...
EWG News Roundup (Nov. 8): Factory Farms, Nontoxic Cleaning and GMOs
This week, EWG joined forces with our colleagues at Waterkeeper Alliance again to show how industrial animal farms can wreak havoc on public health and the environment. Through startling aerial...
EWG News Roundup (Oct. 28): Wastewater on California Crops, Children’s Health, Bogus ‘Organic’ Claims and Big Ag Myths
It's another busy week at EWG. Here's some news you can use from this week.
EWG News Roundup (Oct. 21): Water Contamination, Food Policy and Conservation
Beginning this Friday, EWG will post news you can use – some of the recent media coverage featuring our content and spokespeople.
IQs Plummet and Healthcare Costs Surge from Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
Rocket Fuel and the Not-So-Safe Drinking Water Act
In a remarkable moment of courtroom candor, an attorney representing the Environmental Protection Agency admitted last week the EPA "blew it" in botched efforts to regulate a hazardous chemical in the...
Manure in the Mist: Hog Hell Permeates Duplin County, N.C.
Study: Farm Fertilizers, Manure Are Leading Source of Air Pollution
Large-scale industrial agriculture in the United States and much of the world releases more air pollution than all other emissions sources combined, much of it forming fine particles that are “a huge...
Big Ag Doesn’t Want You to Know About Pesticides on Produce
Nothing sets off the chemical agriculture industry like questioning its heavy dependence on toxic pesticides. Every year, when EWG releases our Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, the Alliance...
Big Ag Fights to Keep Pesticide Linked to Brain Problems in Kids
After years of debate, the Environmental Protection Agency is finally poised to revoke all uses of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which first came on line as a pest control technology in 1965. That...
Widely Used Hormone-Disrupting Pesticides Put Millions at Risk
The European Union just banned two agricultural weed killers linked to infertility, reproductive problems and fetal development – the first-ever EU ban on endocrine-disrupting pesticides. That's good...
Why Children, Pregnant Women Should Eat Food with Fewer Pesticides
“For many children, diet may be the most influential source” of pesticides, said the Academy of Pediatrics in a landmark report published in November 2012.
Toxic Contamination Begins in the Womb
National media outlets, public health officials and Congress have all focused recently on lead contamination in drinking water, as they should be. The tainted water in Flint, Mich., Newark, N.J. and...
Premature Births Linked to Toxic Chemicals
Potentially Toxic Chemicals Plummet in Teens After Switching to Safer Cosmetics
The levels of potentially hormone-disrupting chemicals in the bodies of teenage girls plunged just three days after they stopped using certain cosmetic products, shampoos and soaps that contained the...
In Chemical Reform Law A Hidden Bailout for Monsanto’s Pollution
As the New York Times reported today, federal lawmakers may be about to give Monsanto a multi billion-dollar break. H.R. 2576, The TSCA Modernization Act, is a bill designed to update our nation's...
Congress Poised to Put 9/11 Heroes at Risk
In less than 20 minutes, the terrorist-controlled airliners hit both towers of the World Trade Center complex on the morning of September 11, 2001. As tens of thousands of workers and residents in...
Food Multinationals Behind Attacks on Dr. Oz and Consumer Rights
The front group of all front groups, the American Council on Science and Health, has not disclosed its donor list since the early 1990's.