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New Round of EWG Testing Finds Glyphosate in Kids’ Breakfast Foods from Quaker Oats, General Mills

Glyphosate, an herbicide that is heavily used in the U.S., was detected in all 28 oat-based cereal and breakfast products sampled in a new round of testing commissioned by EWG.
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Food

Does Monsanto’s Glyphosate Cause Cancer?

When the Environmental Protection Agency recently released and then abruptly withdrew a draft document on the cancer risks posed by the pesticide glyphosate, Monsanto jumped at the chance to say that...

Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

Monsanto's Glyphosate GMO Weed-killer Is Pervasive, GMO Labels Nonexistent

Reuters reported today that recent tests by private labs have found residues of the weed killer glyphosate in samples of honey, soy sauce, infant formula and even breast milk.

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

EWG’s Guide to a Healthy Summer

For many families, summer means a whole new routine – different schedules, carpools and activities, and kids spending more time outside. These changes bring a whole new set of considerations about how...

Glyphosate
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture

New Doubts About Roundup

As the East Coast monsoon season slogs on, there's carnage in the garden. The dandelions and plantains are elbowing the grass aside, and the morning glory vines are garrotting the daylilies. Over at...
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

Monsanto’s GMO Herbicide Doubles Cancer Risk

Glyphosate – the main ingredient in Monsanto's widely used herbicide Roundup – is a colorless, odorless chemical and might seem innocuous to those who spray it on crops. But in the past few months the...

Midwest
Midwest
Midwest
Toxic Chemicals
2,4-D
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Food

The Agrichemical Industry’s Broken Promise

In a newly published review, former Environmental Protection Agency senior scientist Dr. Ramon J. Seidler explains that the agrichemical industry's promise that genetically engineered crops would...

Research

Hallmarks of Cancer

The Hallmarks of Cancer are the ten characteristics that differentiate a cancer cell from a normal cell. Over the course of a year, science translator Dr. Buddhini Samarasinghe tackled each of the the ten Hallmarks of Cancer in a guest blog series for Scientific American. The blogs break down the basic biology of each Hallmark and what happens when the system breaks down. It is important to
Research

Going, Going, Gone!

Across America's heartland, in county after county and state after state, the landscape-devouring machinery of modern agriculture has been churning through millions of acres of irreplaceable wetlands and fragile, highly erodible grassland and prairie.
Toxic Chemicals
2,4-D
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

Big Corn and Soy Go on the Defensive As Cancer Experts Probe Weed Killers

News that the world's cancer experts are taking a fresh look at 2,4-D has farm organizations worried.

Glyphosate
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Food
Food

GMO Labeling Urgent As USDA Frees Growers to Use New Monsanto GMO Corn

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week (March 23) it will allow farmers to plant a new strain of genetically modified (GMO) corn created by Monsanto to be tolerant of the week killers...

Toxic Chemicals
2,4-D
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Food

Monsanto’s GMO Weed Killer Sprayed on Fields Close to 12,000 Churches

Genetically engineered crops, commonly called “GMOs,” have led to an explosion in the use of toxic weed killers linked to cancer and other health problems – and people in America's heartland are most...
Research

Poisons in the Pipeline

On March 29, 2013, a pipeline carrying tar sands oil ruptured in Arkansas, sending an inky river through a residential neighborhood in the town of Mayflower. A concerned neighbor scooped up a sample of the spilled oil, which Environmental Working Group later arranged to have tested by an independent laboratory.
Food & Water
Farming & Agriculture
Glyphosate
Pesticides

EPA: Popular Weedkiller Threatens Wildlife

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday (June 2) released a draft risk assessment confirming what some scientists have been warning for years: the weedkiller atrazine likely poses a risk to...
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water
Food

Attack of the Frankenfoods: Genetically Engineered Crops Use 26% More Pesticides, and Growing

The dedicated folks at The Organic Center released a hard hitting report today, Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use: The First Thirteen Years.

EWG News Roundup (9/28): Calif. Leads Nation to Protect Kids from Lead, Trump Fights Pesticide Ban, Top Children’s Health Official Ousted at EPA and More

EWG News Roundup (9/28): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

Paradise Lost

The reality is that the nation's primary prairie and wetlands protection program – the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) – was not designed to meet the environmental challenges being created by record prices for farm commodities. Because the majority of the land in the program is taken out of agricultural production under 10- and 15-year rental agreements with the owners, cropland that had
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate

Roundup at Recess? How to Get Cancer-Causing Pesticides Off Your Local Playground

Two University of California, Berkeley alumnae recently succeeded in convincing the entire UC system to suspend its use of the cancer-causing pesticide glyphosate in its landscaping. If they can do...

Food & Water
Children’s Health

‘A Civil Action’ Carcinogen Pollutes Tap Water Supplies for 14 Million Americans

Drinking water supplies for 14 million Americans are contaminated with a cancer-causing industrial solvent made notorious by the book and film "A Civil Action," according to a new EWG analysis of...
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Energy

Cementing Kavanaugh’s Legacy: How a Supreme Court Nominee Lied About a Cement Pollution Case

When Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he testified that he had ruled for the environment in “many” and a “large number” of cases.
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (10/5): Flooded Animal Waste Pits in N.C., Financial Burdens on Small Water Utilities, Victory on Drinking Water Pollutant and More

EWG News Roundup (10/5): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Children’s Health
Food & Water

EWG Study: Smarter Seafood Choices Can Lower Mercury Exposure for Parents and Their Future Children

Choosing low-mercury fish and other seafood can significantly lower the body's mercury levels in just three months, according to a new EWG study.
Food & Water
Food

EWG's Guide To A Healthy Thanksgiving

Roughly a third of the meat on every turkey goes straight into the garbage. If you tend not to finish your leftovers, buy a smaller bird this year. Try an organic, local or heritage turkey or one...
Children’s Health
Food & Water

10 Healthy-ish Halloween Treats That Won’t Make Your Kids Roll Their Eyes. (Much.)

Parents are trapped in the Halloween guilt vortex: going full-scale green mom, handing out whole walnuts or pennies or dental floss to avoid loading kids with sugar and additives but thereby making...