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Loophole Deja Vu: Senate Climate Bill's Agriculture Offsets Include Polluter Giveaway
Hearings began in the Senate last week on the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. This bill, the companion legislation to the Waxman-Markey climate change bill passed by the House...
Minnesota Ethanol Plant Fined $425K for Environmental Violations
Corn ethanol is far from an environmentally friendly fuel. While petroleum's pollution contributions are obvious and well reported, ethanol's are less clear. However, from chemical fertilizers and...
Tips for safer (face) painting this Halloween... and beyond
It's the Thursday before Halloween and my kids haven't quite decided what to be. Top runners at this point (it changes daily) are pretty standard: witch and princess.
If You Follow the Science, It's Senseless to Boost the Corn Ethanol Blend
Last week saw the launch of a new web property by a coalition of environmental and business groups who take a dim view of plans to raise the ethanol content of gasoline to 15%. The site, Follow the...
Healthy Home Tip 5: Another reason to wash those hands
With one case of kid flu and another serious case of coughing and sneezing in the house this week, our family is hand washing like never before. Parents included.
Climate Change Cage Match: EWG vs. Farm Bureau
Crying Wolf, EWG's recent report on current climate change legislation, convincingly debunked exaggerated claims that a cap-and-trade system to limit greenhouse gases will increase costs for the...
Study Challenges Biofuel Numbers Game
Whoops. A study in the journal Science today got widespread news coverage by pointing out a major flaw in the way the world has been calculating the impact of biofuels use on the atmosphere's...
11 Everyday Pollution Solutions
Use cast iron pans instead of nonstick. Read about Teflon health concerns. To avoid chemicals leaching into food, go easy on processed, canned or fast foods and never microwave plastic. Read about...
Something is amiss with our children
Written by Alice Shabecoff, co-author with her husband Philip of Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on our Children As we watched each of our five grandchildren and their friends enter this world and...
Cell Phone Radiation Series - Part 2: 8 Ways to Reduce Your Exposure
Research has not yet established whether cell phone radiation is harmful. But. Some studies are troubling enough that we recommend reducing your exposure by buying a low-radiation phone or making some...
Gulf Dead Zone Cause and Cure: Remarks by Craig Cox
Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico watershed informational slides.
New Yorkers Focus On Gas Drilling Threat
Natural gas may seem clean, but it has a dark back story. As Environmental Working Group has reported, gas producers out West have drilled thousands of wells with hydraulic fracturing or "fracking,"...
Senator Cardin Offers Hope for the Chesapeake Bay
Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced legislation today aimed at reducing pollution that has endangered the Chesapeake Bay watershed for over 25 years. The Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem...
What's for (School) Lunch? Cornbread and Corn Cobbettes
“Frito-Lay traveling nachos with cornbread, served with a corn cobbette” – that's what's for lunch today in my old elementary school cafeteria in Richmond, VA.
California Leads on Climate Change, Except in Agriculture
When we talk about California and climate change, agriculture matters. California's agriculture sector faces two major challenges: Reduce its contribution to climate change. Arm itself against the...
State of the Rockies Project Studies Big Ag
If you're a Westerner - and what American isn't, really? -- Colorado College's State of the Rockies Project is a must-read, must-bookmark web destination.
A closer look at cosmetics safety
Last month, you saw the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics' first video about cosmetics safety, What's going on with toxic chemicals in cosmetics?
Cell Phone Radiation Series - Part 1: The Science
To a lot of people, it might sound about as worrisome as walking under a ladder or not forwarding an email chain letter, but really, what is the deal with cell phone radiation? Is it something you...
Talking Toxics Policy: A Historic stakeholder conversation
As Enviroblog readers know, EWG has been pushing for years to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the nation's chemical "safety" law.
Crying Wolf: Climate Change Will Cost Farmers Far More Than a Climate Bill
Farm industry leaders and their supporters in Congress are trying to derail climate change legislation by insisting that the House-passed bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), will...
