EWG Comments to EPA To Ban All Uses of Chlorpyrifos

Evidence keeps mounting about the health risks of common food chemicals. At the same time, Americans are waking up to the fact that the federal government not only doesn’t vet the chemicals used in...

The agricultural chemical and seed giant Syngenta announced it will stop producing the toxic weedkiller paraquat by the end of June this year. 

But this is a tactical retreat, not a public health...

Last week, President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to boost the American supply of glyphosate-based herbicides, declaring the controversial weedkiller essential to national security...

State bans on toxic chemicals – including cancer-causing formaldehyde in children’s products and the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in clothing and other consumer products  – are under threat from...