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On silky hair and toxic humans

If you are exposed to the sun, wind, chemical treatments, heat from blow dryers, chances are, you have dry hair. And if you are like me, you can write a book about the steps you have taken trying to...

Here come the plastics ambassadors!

Good news, everyone! The Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council and the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. are rolling out a new ' plastics ambassador' program. You'll be happy to...
Lead
Water

Scientists: Lead contamination in drinking water is never safe.

When are traces of lead in drinking water dangerous? The better question is, when aren't they?
Mercury

Mercury in your medicine cabinet?

Mercury was on my mind a lot last December, but imagine my surprise to find out it was also in my medicine cabinet!

New study and new dangers of the old toxic Teflon chemical

We suspected this for a while but the new study proves it all - PFOA, the chemical found in Teflon, has dangerous consequences for the reproductive health of women. The UCLA-based team of scientists...
Lead
Water

Study links tap water to high lead levels in Washington children

Researchers have found a shockingly high lead levels in the blood of young Washington, D.C. children tested between 2001 and 2004, when the District of Columbia's drinking water was being contaminated...

GAO presses for EPA fix

How many times have you heard senior officials in Washington say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it? So they do nothing. But what if it is broken? So busted up that it's actually dangerous? The U.S...

Let's talk mercury with the experts: In S.F.

With all the recent talk about safe levels of mercury in fish, why not learn more about it from the experts? Join EWG and Earthjustice for a fascinating evening with Dr. Jane Hightower, author of the...

Lead

The real problem with fake grass

I suffer every spring in Washington DC because of the smell of the fake grass that surrounds my apartment building, my walk to work, my walk in the park, my walk pretty much anywhere. I am not super...

The call for citizen involvement: It's loud, clear & important

When John F. Kennedy gave his famous "Ask not what your country can do for you" inaugural speech in 1961, I wasn't alive. But I've long loved that line, as do so many others. Not because he stressed...
Toxic Chemicals
BPA

New studies show heightened toxics risks in newborns

Newborn babies are more intensely exposed than previously documented to contamination by bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen and ubiquitous plastic component, according to two new studies...

The value of clean water

Agricultural pollutants affect drinking water quality nationwide Economic losses caused by nutrient pollution of U.S. freshwaters are felt by people all around the country, according to the policy...

A signature can save the Grand Canyon

Special to Enviroblog by Dusty Horwitt, EWG Analyst Within moments of taking office, Secretary of the Interior-designate Ken Salazar (D-CO), has an opportunity with the sweep of his pen to protect the...

Something fishy about the fish....oh, wait, it's mercury

It was all over the news few weeks ago. On December 12, Environmental Working Group published a report called Mercury Mischief at FDA, disclosing internal documents from the federal Food and Drug...

Klean Kanteen: Once, twice, still worth it

Since I started working for EWG a mere six months ago, I have been through two serious kid cup searches. Not necessarily the most momentous events during that period, but quite possibly the most time...

EWG asks HHS nominee Tom Daschle: what about toxics?

Topic A at the Senate confirmation hearing for Health and Human secretary nominee Tom Daschle was health reform. Also Topics B through Y. That's understandable: this country's health crisis is...
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Loopholes in Climate Bill “Offset” Provisions

The agriculture provisions of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) open two loopholes that threaten to let coal-fired power plants and other big climate polluters off the hook and slow...

Autism: There's more of it, not just better detection

Special to Enviroblog by Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Researcher A study published earlier this week confirmed what parents of children with autism have argued for years--that the dramatic increase in...
Energy
Midwest

Ethanol’s Federal Subsidy Grab Leaves Little For Solar, Wind And Geothermal Energy

As Congress and the incoming Obama administration plan the nation's next major investments in green energy, they need to take a hard, clear-eyed look at Department of Energy data documenting corn...

All the EWG environmental health issues you care about - on Facebook.

I'm convinced that having a Facebook group is now like having a web site: if you don't have one, where are you, really? Does your group really exist? If you can't be found online, who's going to find...
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