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Hormone-Disrupting Weed Killer Taints Tap Water for Millions in Corn Belt
Seasonal spikes of atrazine – a weed killer that can disrupt hormones and harm developing fetuses – contaminate drinking water in corn-growing areas of the Midwest and beyond, according to an analysis...
Dramatic Satellite Photos Reveal Impact of Hurricane Florence on North Carolina CAFOs
Newly released satellite images show the devastating flooding contaminated by pollution from Hurricane Florence's pounding of the Carolinas, including waste from the hundreds of industrial-scale hog...
Will Hurricane Florence Flood N.C. Factory Farms and Manure Pits?
When Hurricane Matthew hit North Carolina in 2016, it flooded more than 140 feces-strewn industrial-scale swine and poultry barns, more than a dozen open pits brimming with liquid hog waste and...
EPA Chief: Environmental and Public Health Rollbacks ‘Make Things Better’
Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler told a Senate oversight committee today that the scores of rollbacks of environmental and public health regulations under the Trump administration...
Environmental Racism: A Public Health Crisis
Last month, after a year-long investigation, former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and eight other officials were charged for their roles in the Flint water crisis – the environmental disaster that shocked...
EWG News Roundup (3/12): Northern Virginia Water Contaminated With PFAS, Michael Regan Confirmed as EPA Administrator and More
EWG News Roundup (3/12): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
None of the Above: The False Energy ‘Solutions’ America Doesn’t Need
America is at an energy crossroads. Over the past decade, the phenomenal growth of clean, cost-efficient, renewable energy sources has shown the environmental and economic folly of reliance on the...
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Guide to Healthy Cleaning
EWG’s Guide to Healthy Cleaning provides you with easy-to-navigate hazard ratings for a wide range of cleaners and ingredients.
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How Investing $75 Billion on Infrastructure Will Make Drinking Water Safer
For the next COVID-19 stimulus bill, House leaders have proposed spending $75.9 billion over five years on water infrastructure. This urgent and long-overdue investment would enable community water systems to significantly reduce drinking water contaminants linked to serious health problems, including harm to the immune system. Two well-established treatment technologies – granular activated
A Timeline of EWG-Commissioned Laboratory Test
Biden Throws Support Behind Commercial Offshore Wind Power Program
The Biden administration today committed to backing offshore wind projects along the Atlantic Seaboard that by 2030 will generate enough electricity to power 10 million homes for a year, will have...
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In New Round of Tests, Monsanto’s Weedkiller Still Contaminates Foods Marketed to Children
Major food companies like General Mills continue to sell popular children’s breakfast cereals and other foods contaminated with troubling levels of glyphosate, the cancer-causing ingredient in the herbicide Roundup. The weedkiller, produced by Bayer-Monsanto, was detected in all 21 oat-based cereal and snack products sampled in a new round of testing commissioned by the Environmental Working Group
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EWG's Advice for Avoiding Bug Bites
No bug repellent will work in every situation or against every pest. You should research the diseases carried by mosquitoes and other insects and ticks where you plan to spend time outside, and choose the best product accordingly.
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EWG's Guide to Safe Drinking Water
Drinking plenty of good, clean water is important for a healthy body.
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EWG’s Guide to Reducing Disinfectant Byproducts in Pools
EWG’s Guide to Reducing Disinfectant Byproducts in Pools
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EWG’s Top Tips for Better Air Quality
Airborne pollutants are an important contributor to all respiratory diseases, including asthma attacks.
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EWG's Quick Tips for Choosing Safer Personal Care Products
EWG created our Skin Deep® database as a way to combat the serious deficiencies in cosmetics regulation. Still, navigating store aisles can be difficult. Our researchers have evaluated thousands of safety studies and ingredient labels to bring you our top recommendations for which products to avoid.
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EWG's Tips to Avoiding Superbugs in Meat
Responsible doctors don’t give people antibiotics they don’t need, but until recently many livestock producers fed healthy animals antibiotics to make them grow faster – no prescription needed.
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EWG's 10 Household Tips for Cancer Prevention
Cancer prevention starts with a healthy lifestyle. That means not smoking or using tobacco products, eating a healthy diet, getting regular physical activity, practicing safe sex and getting appropriate vaccinations.
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EWG’s Guide to Avoiding PFAS Chemicals
Per- or polyfluorochemicals, known as PFAS chemicals, are a family of chemicals that are widely used to make water-, grease- and stain-repellent coatings.
EWG applauds Booker-Spanberger bill to reward climate stewardship on farms and forest lands and expand rural renewable energy production
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) yesterday announced the reintroduction of legislation to support voluntary conservation practices on more than 100 million acres of U.S...
Six ways to boost your health this spring
The start of spring means longer days, stronger UV rays, open windows and spring cleaning. Here are a few tips EWG suggests for safely enjoying the season.
Leftover Trump EPA rule leaves millions at risk from lead-tainted tap water
Civil rights and environmental groups are urging the Biden administration to delay implementation of a Trump-era rule that would leave millions of Americans exposed to toxic lead in drinking water.
EWG applauds coal miners union push for just transition to clean energy
The nation’s biggest coal mining union announced its support Monday for federal legislation and policies that shift the U.S. from fossil fuels to renewable energy, while also including job training...
