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Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Will Land O’Lakes/Microsoft ‘Carbon Bank’ Actually Cut Emissions?

Land O'Lakes touts its new agricultural carbon credits market as a “transformational” program rewarding farmers for adopting conservation practices while “incentivizing” corporations to reduce...

Farming & Agriculture
Family Health
Women's Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

EWG Calls on EPA To Ban Use of Brain-Damaging Pesticide

The neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos should be banned for use immediately by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Working Group wrote in a public comment letter [link to letter] to...

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

EPA Takes First Step To Address Industrial Pollution From ‘Forever Chemicals’

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to propose a new rule, asking chemical companies to provide information on the production and discharge of the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, which...

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water

Comments From 30 Organizations to the EPA on Interim Guidance on the Destruction and Disposal of PFAS Chemicals

The Environmental Working Group, along with more than 30 environmental and public health organizations, submitted comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s interim guidance on the destruction...

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

It’s Time To Protect Firefighters From Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’

Firefighters take enormous risks to protect us. Now it's time to protect them from the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

‘Forever Chemicals’ Must Be Regulated as a Class

To protect the health of people, communities and the environment, the toxic fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS should not be regulated one by one but as a class, more than a dozen...

Food & Water
Children’s Health

3 Things Parents Should Know About Toxic Heavy Metals in Baby Foods

Many popular baby food brands contain dangerous levels of mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic, according to a new investigation by a House of Representatives oversight committee. Exposure to these...

Research

Pesticides in Baby Food

To determine the extent of pesticide contamination of baby food, we tested eight foods (applesauce, garden vegetables or pea and carrot blend, green beans, peaches, pears, plums, squash and sweet potatoes) made by the three major baby food producers that account for 96 percent of all baby food sales -- Gerber, Heinz, and Beech-Nut. All samples were purchased at retail from grocery stores in three
Food & Water
Food

Study: Additive found in Skittles and Starburst no longer considered safe

An additive used in Skittles, Starburst, Hostess’ Donettes and thousands of other foods should no longer be considered safe for human consumption, according to a new study from the European Union’s...
Skittles
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Do farmers need more federal welfare?

Every year, the American Farm Bureau Federation and other Big Ag lobby groups demand more federal subsidies for farmers. Before that happens this year, with the farm economy white-hot, it’s time to...

Children’s Health

EWG news roundup (5/14): How the Biden administration should address the nation’s lead pipe problem, EWG calls on produce industry to support chlorpyrifos ban and more

EWG News Roundup 5/14: Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Regional Issues
Defense Communities
North Carolina

At the most contaminated military sites, little to no progress in cleaning up ‘forever chemicals’

The Pentagon has made almost no progress in cleaning up the military installations that are some of the most contaminated with the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, according to an EWG review...
Personal Care Products
Household & Consumer Products
Cookware & Food Containers
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
California
Defense Communities

EWG applauds bill to end Defense Dept. use of ‘forever chemicals’ in household items

The Environmental Working Group today applauded Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) for introducing legislation to end the Defense Department’s purchase, procurement and...
Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Toxic Chemicals

Bipartisan Senate bill would help protect consumers from toxic chemicals in personal care products

A bipartisan bill introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) would give the Food and Drug Administration the power to ensure that the chemicals used in cosmetics and...
Woman putting on face cream
Food & Water
Food

Organic sales soar in 2020 to over $61 billion

Sales of organic food and other organic products in the U.S. surged to nearly $62 billion in 2020 – up more than 12 percent from the year before, according to a new survey by the Organic Trade...
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
Lead
Regional Issues
California

California Assembly approves bill to sharply reduce lead leaching from water faucets and fixtures

Today a bill to sharply reduce lead leaching from water faucets and fixtures passed the California Assembly. If it becomes law, it will create the nation’s most legally stringent lead leaching limit...
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

Bayer may end sales of toxic weedkiller Roundup for residential use

After a federal judge rejected a proposed $2 billion settlement for all future claims that Roundup causes cancer, the maker of the widely used weedkiller said it will consider whether to end its sale...

EWG news roundup (6/4): Maryland cosmetics bill becomes law, FDA budget targets food safety and more

EWG news roundup (6/4): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

City Slickers

American taxpayers are sending hundreds of millions of dollars in Federal farm subsidy checks every year to a handful of absentee owners, corporations and other "farmers" who live smack in the middle of the country's biggest cities. Over the past decade, taxpayers wrote 1.6 million agriculture subsidy checks worth more than $1.3 billion to "city slickers" whose permanent mailing address is in the
Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Conservation
Farm Subsidies

Cover crops, touted as a climate crisis solution, planted on only 1 in 20 acres of Corn Belt cropland

Cover crops, which help control water pollution from farm runoff, remain a little-used tool on Midwestern farmland, despite almost 100 years of science showing its value, according to a new...

Cancer and the Environment: 10 Common Misconceptions Answered

Conjecture and falsehoods that masquerade as fact can hamper efforts to prevent and treat cancer.

Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Lead

Study: Lead detected in more than half of U.S. kids under age 6

A new study of children in every U.S. state and the District of Columbia finds more than half had detectable levels of lead in their blood. The proportion of children with lead in their blood...
Energy
Utilities
Federal & State Energy Policy
Fossil & Nuclear
Regional Issues
California

California oil spill revives EWG’s fears about toxic dispersants, weak EPA rules

Efforts to clean up the massive oil spill off southern California’s coast should carefully consider the risks of using toxic dispersants, warns the Environmental Working Group, given the harm the...
Oil rig offshore

EWG's Cancer Defense Diet

The foods we eat have a powerful effect on our health. Learn about changes you can make to your diet that can help reduce your risk of cancer through EWG's Cancer Defense Diet.