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The Pentagon Should Address All Types of PFAS on Military Bases

The toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS belong to a family with hundreds of different members. They are linked to an array of health risks, including cancer, thyroid disruption, reproductive and...

EWG Statement on the Murder of George Floyd

The Environmental Working Group stands in solidarity and mourning with the family of George Floyd, to honor his memory and grieve his senseless, hateful, brutal murder at the hands of Minneapolis...
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

How Trump’s Consumer Safety Nominee Weakened Regulation of ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Consumer Products

There are many reasons for the Senate to oppose President Trump's nominee to chair the Consumer Products Safety Commission, Nancy Beck.

COVID-19
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Farm Workers
Farm Subsidies
Midwest

COVID-19 Farm Bailout Funds Should Help Farmworkers, Not Big Farmers

Congress should direct the Department of Agriculture to use COVID-19 relief funds to ensure that farmworkers –not big farmers – have protections, free testing and paid sick leave.

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

On Juneteenth – and Every Day – Support Environmental Justice

Today is Juneteenth. This year the holiday is especially meaningful, as people of all backgrounds have gathered to raise their voices and declare: Black Lives Matter. EWG stands in solidarity with...
Pesticides
Sunscreen
Water

EWG News Roundup (6/30): Tap Water Endangered for 117M, Trump’s Pay-to-Spray and Best Budget Sunscreens

Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

U.S. Sunscreens Get Flunking Grade for UVA Protection

Fall is the iconic American season. Football. Soccer. Cross-country meets. Apple-picking. Hiking through forests blazing red and orange. Bicycling in crisp country air. Raking the leaves. Hayrides. Pumpkin patches. School fairs.
Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Meat and Dairy Alternatives
Factory Farms
Farm Pollution
Food & Farm Workers
Farm Subsidies
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals
Pesticides

How Can the Biden Administration Fix America’s Broken Food System?

The staggering number of food and farm workers who have died from Covid-19 has laid bare the Trump administration's disastrous policies on food and farm issues.

Food & Water
Food

Favorite Thanksgiving Recipes From EWG Staff

Whether you observe Thanksgiving this year with an intimate gathering or a virtual event, your day will still likely center on the traditional holiday meal. And no matter how many people you feed, you...

Food & Water
Food
Food Chemicals

Let’s Talk Turkey: Decoding the Label on Your Bird

Labels on turkeys can be confusing! It's difficult to sort the certifications and claims that are superfluous from the ones that actually mean something. Fortunately, EWG can help you find the facts.

Food & Water
Food

Thanksgiving’s Superfood Sweet Potatoes – Without the Sugar Splurge

This year many Americans are rethinking how they will celebrate Thanksgiving during the Covid-19 pandemic. Although this holiday will probably look different from any in recent memory, it's still...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Detailing the Big Handout to Big Ag

A timely new book explores how America's food, farm and energy policies got derailed by greedy lobbyists and government subsidies.
Food

A cookbook for everyone on EWG's list

My favorite gifts are recently released cookbooks. I love to give and get them. I know picking the right cookbook can be a challenge - especially when there are so many great ones these days to help...
Sunscreen
Cosmetics

Best, Worst Sunscreens and Lip Balms for Winter Sports

Hitting the slopes this winter? Gnarly is for steeps and chutes, not faces.
Children’s Health
Food

Feeding Baby Green: Dr. Greene tells us how - and why

My husband hates parenting books. Absolutely hates them. Which is a good thing (there. are. so. many.) and a bad thing (sometimes you just gotta get an expert outside opinion).
Research

New Study Confirms BPA in Receipts

Sophisticated tests on paper used to print cash register receipts at 10 suburban Boston-area stores found measurable levels of the controversial plastics chemical bisphenol A in all but two of them, according to a new study by John C. Warner, acclaimed as the co-founder of “green chemistry.”
Pesticides

America's schools have a pesticide problem

We talk a lot about pesticides around these parts, and with good reason. Marc Lame talks a lot about pesticides, too. He's an entomologist and professor at Indiana University's School of Public and...
BPA
Food & Water
Food
Food

BPA: Why I Became Best Friends with my Slow Cooker

My slow cooker is battered and dinged, and I love it. Fill it with filtered water and dried beans in the morning, set on low, and by dinnertime, I have a steaming pot of cooked beans. Or load it up...
Food & Water
Food

Back-to-School with Weelicious Lunches – for You and Your Children

With fall quickly approaching and some school bells already ringing, it's time to get back to thinking about what to pack for your kids' lunch. Your third grader might not give the food in his lunch...
Children’s Health
Midwest
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Energy
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (10/4): PFAS Taints Military Bases, California Adopts Law To Protect People From Lead in Jewelry, and More

EWG News Roundup (10/4): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Asbestos

Two Philadelphia Schools Closed After Renovation Reveals Deadly Asbestos

The Philadelphia School District has closed two schools indefinitely after renovations uncovered deadly asbestos. The closure of the schools, housed in the same building, comes just weeks after a...

EWG News Roundup (12/13): Key PFAS Provisions Left Out of Defense Spending Bill, EWG Map Shows 305 Military Sites Tainted With PFAS and More

EWG News Roundup (12/13): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

California Regulators

The state agency responsible for regulating oil and gas drilling in California has long turned a blind eye to the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), insisting as recently as this year that drillers rarely use the process in the state despite industry records documenting the practice at least as far back as 1953.
Energy
Renewable Energy
Fossil & Nuclear

Like Coal, Natural Gas Losing Ground to Renewables

As expensive, dirty coal power staggers toward its inevitable demise, natural gas has come to dominate the electricity market.