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More organophosphates please, Mom!
People may know that organic produce is a better bet - for our heath and the environment, yet only about 2% of U.S. food sales are organic. Yes, a paltry 2 percent.
Should state employees be drinking bottled water? On your dime?
You may have kicked the bottled water habit, but has your state government?
Awakening to Cancer's Environmental Roots
When I was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 1979, at the age 20, I drafted a list of goals. The first thing I would do, once I was sprung from the hospital, would be to pay a visit to Claire's...
It's time to look upstream
Chanda Chevannes has made an important documentary film about Sandra Steingraber's work, based largely on her first book, Living Downstream. The trailer below will give you a sense of Steingraber's...
PBS's NOW on toxic natural gas extraction
Josh Fox, director and star of the award-winning new documentary film Gasland, goes on PBS's Now to highlight the threat that natural gas extraction brings to human health and the environment. Fox was...
How to get more fruits and veggies into school cafeterias
First Lady Michelle Obama's noble fight against childhood obesity cannot be won unless members of Congress act boldly this spring and vote to give school lunches the healthy makeover that our kids...
The 8-minute Story of Bottled Water: Watch it, then stop drinking it
You've seen The Story of Stuff, right? That short and sweet video explanation of our "consumption problem" and what we can do about it? Well Annie Leonard and the gang at Free Range Studios (plus a...
An App for everything, except radiation levels
Curious about how much radiation is coming from your iPhone? Sorry, there's no app for that.
Help EWG do bottled water research - and win a prize!
Last year we took a close look at 100s of bottled water labels to see how good (or bad) manufacturers are at sharing important information with consumers - like my mother, who buys it by the box (me =...
EWG statement on Trump EPA PFAS announcement
Today Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to address contamination from the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.
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Nearly 19M Californians could lose protection from toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in tap water
Eliminating federal limits in drinking water on the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS could end a vital safeguard against continued pollution for 18.9 million Californians.
Statement on FDA announcement to speed up use of AI for scientific review
Today Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary announced an aggressive timeline to scale up the use of artificial intelligence internally across FDA centers.
EWG testimony before the Pennsylvania Assembly House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee on H.B. 1131 and H.B. 1132, to ban unhealthy ultra-processed foods and food dyes from school foods
The following is May 13 testimony from Scott Faber, the Environmental Working Group’s senior vice president for government affairs, before the Pennsylvania Assembly House Consumer Protection...
USDA reverses course, commits to restore purged climate webpages in response to farmers’ lawsuit
Shortly after filing the lawsuit, the plaintiffs moved the court for a preliminary injunction, which sought a court order requiring USDA to restore the removed webpages and preventing USDA from taking...
Trump administration moves to weaken landmark PFAS protections in drinking water, putting millions at risk and letting polluters off the hook
In a shocking reversal of one of the most significant public health victories in a generation, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is moving to roll back vital portions of the...
New York state Sen. Brian Kavanagh celebrates Agriculture Committee’s advancement of Food Safety and Chemical Disclosure Act
Albany, N.Y. – State Sen. Brian Kavanagh, lead Senate sponsor of the Food Safety and Chemical Disclosure Act, applauds the Senate Agriculture Committee’s vote today to advance the critical food safety...
Harmful heavy metals: Why they’re in tap water and how to reduce your exposure
Heavy metals can be harmful even at low levels in tap water. Lead is a heavy metal contaminant in that it comes from pipes, not polluters. Filters like reverse osmosis can remove some heavy metals...
Almost 10,000 farmers have received subsidies for 40 straight years
For decades, the Department of Agriculture sent a total of over $10 billion in repeat payments to farmers, according to a new EWG analysis. Every year, for 40 years, the money went to nearly 10,000...
Hold the Applause
Two weeks ago (Feb. 17), fellow activists proclaimed the upbeat news that the European Union had banned xylene and five other toxic chemicals that pose risks to human health and the environment.
How sunscreen ingredients are regulated in the U.S.
Wearing sunscreen is one of the simplest and most important ways to protect your health. Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States, and it’s on the rise, with one in five...
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Triple dipping: Budget bill raises farm subsidies for wealthy farmers by billions of dollars
In the past five years, some farmers across the country may have dipped into three types of taxpayer-funded federal farm support to collect a staggering $113.9 billion, according to EWG’s newly updated Farm Subsidy Database . And the House-passed budget reconciliation bill could make this “triple dipping” problem even worse. It would do this by increasing funding for commodity program subsidies
EWG statement on banned toxic chemicals found in personal care products sold in California
More than 170 personal care products occupy store shelves in California, even though they contain toxic chemicals banned under state law.
EWG: Reducing multiple tap water contaminants may prevent over 50,000 cancer cases
WASHINGTON – Drinking water treatment that pursues a multi-contaminant approach, tackling several pollutants at once, could prevent more than 50,000 lifetime cancer cases in the U.S., finds a new peer...
Minnesota farmers would not gain much from GOP budget farm subsidy proposals
The House and Senate budget reconciliation bills are packed with loopholes that will send tens of billions more dollars in subsidies to the largest farms. But most farmers in Minnesota would not...
