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Cancer Risk is Cause for EPA to Act on GMO Weed Killer
The Environmental Working Group joined a number of other environmental and consumer rights organizations today to ask the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop the rollout of Dow AgroSciences'...
Unregulated Genetic Engineering: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
California Moves To Protect Citizens From Monsanto’s GMO Weed Killer
California officials want to add glyphosate, the main chemical ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, to the state's official list of known carcinogens. This could significantly curb the weed...
EWG's Guide to Safer Cell Phone Use
EPA Watchdog to Investigate Monsanto GMOs and Superweeds
Genetically modified corn and soybeans were supposed to reduce chemical use on farms, but instead they've done the exact opposite by creating herbicide-resistant "superweeds" and increasing the use of...
Court Docs: Monsanto Paid Chemical Industry Front Group To Claim Cancer-Causing Weedkiller ‘Safe’ and Attack Its Critics
EWG News Roundup (8/17): Breakfast with a Dose of Roundup, Protecting Salon Workers and More
Trapped on Monsanto’s Chemical Treadmill: Dicamba Debacle Shows Folly of Herbicide Arms Race
More than 3 million acres of soybeans and other crops were damaged when a herbicide called dicamba drifted onto their fields, according to a just-published report in The Washington Post on the “arms...
How Industry Twists Science to Downplay the Dangers of Toxic Chemicals
The most egregious flaw of the United States' toothless and outdated system of regulating chemicals is the failure to adequately and independently test chemicals for safety. Because of the...
EWG’s Top 10 Agriculture Stories of 2015
As in past years, EWG asked its staff of scientists, policy analysts and governmental and communications specialists to vote on what they considered the 10 most important stories of 2015 in two...
Citing GMO-Herbicide Link, Renowned Children’s Health Expert Calls for GMO Labeling
An article published today in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine by two of the nation's most respected experts on pesticides and children's environmental health calls for the Food and...
EWG News Roundup (5/17): Cover Crops Expand Across the Corn Belt, Billion Dollar Monsanto Ruling and More
EWG News Roundup (5/17): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
FDA Tests Confirm Suspicions about PFAS Chemicals in Food
A recent investigation by the Food and Drug Administration found per- and poly- fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in food, including meat, seafood and dairy products; sweet potatoes; pineapples; leafy...
Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the Senate DARK Act
This week, the Senate Committee on Agriculture will consider a new version of the DARK Act. The House of Representatives has already passed legislation blocking your right to know what's in your food...
Duke Energy Refuses to Acknowledge the New Realities of the Electricity Market
Duke Energy's new 20-year plan for generating power for its 840,000 Indiana customers shows why the nation's largest electric utility is Public Energy Enemy No. 1. It continues the utility's outdated...
5 Ways To Prevent the Flu When You’ve Got (Germy) Kids
PFAS in Drinking Water: Hazardous at Ever-Lower Levels
Last week, as he unveiled the Environmental Protection Agency's toothless “action plan” on fluorinated chemicals, acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler maintained that the current guideline of 70 parts per...
EWG News Roundup (2/22): Safe Levels of Exposure to PFAS Keep Getting Lower, Federal Agencies Seek Volunteers for PFAS Testing and Safer Sunscreens on the Way
EWG News Roundup (2/22): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Cosmetics Safety Bill Gains Support from Industry and Advocates
EWG News Roundup (9/21): Asbestos in U.S. Schools, House Members’ Votes on Toxic Chemical Bills and More
EWG News Roundup (9/21): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG News Roundup (12/7): EWG Analyzes Korean Beauty Trends, Coal Consumption Plummets and More
EWG News Roundup (12/7): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG’s News Roundup (12/1): Chemicals in Cribs, Investigating the EPA and More
EWG's News Roundup (12/1): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG’s News Roundup (11/17): Farmers Double Dip into Subsidies, California Leads on Clean Energy and More
In a new report this week, EWG discovered that a large swath of profitable farm operations are getting subsidized twice for one crop loss. In 2014 and 2015 these double dippers took advantage of...
EWG News Roundup (5/12): N.C. Lawmakers Favor Big Pork Over Public Health, Trump Threatens Paris Climate Agreement and Senators Take on Chemicals in Cosmetics
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