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Eight Key Questions on Chemical Safety Reform

Chemicals used in everyday products should be safe – right? States should have a role in regulating potentially toxic chemicals – right?

Toxic Chemicals

Toxic Trash

Feeling good about donating your old computer for use by someone in another country? Then don't read Laurie J. Flynn's New York Times story about the finding that many of those donated electronics end...

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Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

Schwarzenegger Vetoes Biomonitoring Bill

Using a line straight from the chemical industry's playbook, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have established the nation's first state biomonitoring program last weekend...
Pesticides

Forest Service Fires Pesticide Whistleblower

The U.S. Forest Service has fired a 40-year employee after he filed a whistleblower complaint related to misuse of pesticides across several forests in Arizona and New Mexico. He said he was fired him...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Asbestos

W.R. Grace Asbestos Threatens Dallas Community

W.R. Grace strikes again, the Dallas Morning News reports, with news that up to 450 employees of the company's West Dallas plant and their families are at risk from asbestos-related illnesses.
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Pesticides

Fla. Chemical Maker Drops Pesticides Linked to Birth Defects

Ag-Mart Produce, the giant Florida tomato grower, is eliminating the use of some pesticides linked to birth defects following a lawsuit involving three seriously deformed babies born to field workers.
Mercury
Food

Utah Hunters Warned of Mercury in Duck

Just before hunting season opens in Utah, state officials are warning hunters not to eat two types of ducks that feed on Great Salt Lake marhes because tests on the animals show dangerous levels of...
Conservation

DOJ Seeks to Blame Environmental Groups for Levee Failure

Straight from the Jackson Clarion-Ledger: E-mail sent to various U.S. Attorney's offices: SUBJECT: Have you had any cases involving the levees in New Orleans?
Pesticides

EPA Proposes New Human Pesticide Testing Rules

EPA's new human pesticide testing legislation prohibits intentional dosing of pregnant women and children, but will allow some human testing, subject to ethical standards and approval of a review...
Farm Subsidies

Will Congress cut food programs instead of wasteful farm subsidies?

The Associated Press reports that Congress is considering cutting food programs for the poor instead of reforming wasteful farm subsidies to huge agribusinesses. The farm programs cost taxpayers...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Asbestos

More health problems for asbestos victims?

Researchers at the University of Missouri have discovered a possible link between asbestos and autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Research

K-Beauty Trends: Serums, Essences and EWG’s Best Bets

Like K-Pop music and spicy fried chicken, skin care and beauty products from Korea are flooding the American market. U.S. sales of K-beauty products, as they're called, have increased by almost 300 percent in the past two years alone.
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Research

The "Farm Crisis" Myth

There's a lot of doom and gloom in the air about the state of the farm economy. As commodity prices continue to fall from the historic highs of the last few years, advocates for the agriculture industry have been claiming that growers will have a hard time making ends meet. The House Agriculture Committee has held hearings to “focus on the farm economy,” inviting witnesses from Big Ag to declare

Food & Water
Water
Family Health
Women's Health
Children’s Health

Trump Must Make Safe Drinking Water for Children, Pregnant Women a 'Huge' Priority

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged that providing “crystal clear, clean water” to all Americans will be a top priority of his administration. To make good on his promise, he should adopt the...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

EWG News Roundup (1/6): Kids and Sugar, Avoiding Pesticides and Toxic Teflon

EWG's research on the serious sugar problem in many kids' cereals, published between 2011 and 2014, received renewed attention this week in the media. Other widely covered EWG projects included our...

Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (Jan. 13)

With President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration only a week from today, questions on what environmental policies he will put in place during his first 100 days in office, as well as who he will pick...

Research

Off the Books II: More Secret Chemicals

Code names for untested chemicals, secret production amounts reported by unnamed companies, discharges of undisclosed amounts of pollutants – these occurrences are not the fantastical inventions of some Dr. Seuss book. These are realities currently allowed under the federal Toxic Substances Control Act, commonly referred to as TSCA, which became law in 1976.
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

Kids’ Health at Risk Under Trump’s EPA

Last week's confirmation hearing for President Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency underscored the agency's foremost responsibility: protecting the health of America's children...
Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (Jan. 27)

As President Trump's first week in office comes to an end, a number of startling decisions that could have serious implications for public health and the environment have already come out of the White...

Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water
Food

Your Game Plan for a Healthier Super Bowl Sunday

When it comes to eating holidays, Super Bowl Sunday comes in second only to Thanksgiving, with some reports suggesting that the average football fan consumes more than 2,400 calories during the game...

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies

5 Things to Know About California’s Cleaning Products Disclosure Bill

Many of the supplies we use to clean and freshen our homes and workplaces contain ingredients that could harm our health or the environment. Some products use ingredients that have been linked to...

Research

Food Lobby Spends $101 Million in 2015 to Avert GMO Labeling

Big food and biotechnology companies and trade associations seeking to block labeling of food with genetically modified organisms through a rider in the end-of-the year federal spending bill have reported spending $75.5 million on lobbying from January through September of this year.
Midwest
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (2/17): Pruitt’s Emails, DuPont’s $671M Teflon Settlement and Lead in Lipstick

Today, in a near-partisan vote, Scott Pruitt was confirmed as the next head of the Environmental Protection Agency. It's no secret that EWG opposed him for the job.