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EPA Drags Feet on New Lead Rules
An EPA whistle-blower has exposed the agency for secretly delaying completion of required rules to protect children and construction workers from lead poisoning from paint and dust in favor of...
Farm Subsidies Contradict Food Pyramid Recommendations
USDA's new food pyramid encourages Americans to make fruits and vegetables the lion's share of their diets, but this policy, the Chicago Tribune points out, doesn't stack up with the crops the agency...
World Oil Production Could Peak Earlier Than Expected
A retired oil-industry geologist told a group of conservative Swiss bankers last week that while the world's supply of oil won't run out for many years, peak production may come as early as next year...
Energy Bill Debate Highlights Phantom Restrictions on Domestic Oil and Gas Exploration
During debate over the energy bill in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Tuesday, Representatives Hall, Green, Murphy, Rogers, Pickering, and Committee Chair Barton, among others, voiced...
EWG Congratulates Sen. Grassley on Payment Limits Amendment
Congressional Quarterly reports that Senator Grassley (R-IA) won support on his amendment to reasonably limit wasteful farm payments.
California Paper Looks at One Family's Body Burden
The Oakland Tribune devoted three days and thousands of words to telling the story of one local family's exposure to toxic chemicals. The paper's superb series presents a new and updated take on the...
DuPont Agrees to Settlement After Poisoning Drinking Water
DuPont Corp. has agreed to pay a settlement of over $100 million to residents of Parkersburg, WV, after knowingly contaminating their drinking water with PFOA, a toxic chemical used to make Teflon.
New Hampshire Determined to Limit Mercury Emissions, Despite Federal Stalling
With the Bush administration dragging its heels on limiting mercury emissions from power plants, concerned New Hampshire citizens are calling for legislation independent of federal regulations, the...
Farmed Fish Consumption Rising Along With PCBs
The Washington Post reports that half the fish consumed worldwide will be farm-raised instead of wild-caught by the year 2025, exposing Americans to more fish with plenty of healthy omega-3s and...
Politicizing Safety: When Corporations Trump Children
In her new book "It's My Party Too,” former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christie Whitman's accuses the chemical industry's lobbying arm, the American Chemistry Council (ACC)...
Testing for Mercury in our Bodies is on the Rise
Pregnant Women, Potential Mothers and Kids are of Most Concern. The Wall Street Journal reported in July about the increasing popularity of tests designed to tell how much mercury has accumulated in...
USDA Weakens National Organic Food Standards
Grist magazine reports that the Bush Administration, at the behest of agribusiness lobbyists, has quietly taken several actions to weaken national standards for organic food. The Department of...
NY Newsday, FL Times Union document diverse asbestos problems
As U.S. Senate leaders negotiate a trust fund for Americans sick or dying from asbestos, new facts are transforming the debate. Despite what many Americans believe, asbestos is still being used, and...
Fuel Stop: Your Weekly Roundup of Ethanol-Related News (Jan. 5-11)
Ethanol related stories for January 5-11, 2013
Re-doubling my commitment to organic food
There's nothing to make you feel like a dope like a bunch of experts telling you you're wasting your money by buying organic food. And after the recent review of the issue by Stanford University...
Junk food is “safe” too – but that’s not the whole story
The Environmental Working Group has always urged people to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, organic or conventional – and we always will. A diet heavy in produce and light in processed foods, red...
Food and Nutrition
For too long, funding provided by the United States' most far-reaching food and farm legislation -- the farm bill -- has primarily benefited agri-business and industrial-scale commodity farms that...
Tunnel Vision
Gulf state taxpayers help fund the creation of agriculture pollution they ultimately deal with. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has launched a new initiative to pay Gulf Coast farm businesses in...
Western drilling claiming more victims?
Well, it’s finally happened. The out-of-control explosion of oil and gas drilling in the Mountain West has started to claim other victims besides the environment. Politicians who were early...
Shifting sex ratio may be caused by PCBs, but how?
More girls than boys are being born in certain Inuit villages in the Arctic, and scientists say man-made chemicals are to blame. Women were tested for the level of PCBs (pervasive hormone mimicking...
EnviroHealth in blogs: Green tea, nurdles, and demystifying the Farm Bill
A little light reading to get you through your Wednesday. In response to a reader comment, Marc at Ethicurean boils the Food and Farm Bill down to a handful of easy to understand talking points. Now...
SMM: City Slickers
So EWG designed a little gadget, ages ago, that allows users to find out who's getting farm subsidies (and how much, and where). We call it the Farm Subsidy Database (creative, I know). The database...
Mossville's dioxin-free dreams
I wonder what health insurance costs are like in Mossville, Louisiana? Sky high, I imagine. Residents of that community have three times as much dioxin in their bodies as the average U.S. population...
How cutting out certain food additives could curb ADHD (and cancer too)
A UK study published today in the Lancet reveals that certain food additives, including sodium benzoate and some colorings, likely play a role in the increasingly frequent diagnosis of ADHD in...