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Forum: Advancing sustainable federal procurement

This forum is to engage sustainable business leaders in the Government's efforts to move toward a sustainability-centered procurement system, and ultimately to help E.O.14057 succeed.
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EWG news roundup (3/4): Carcinogenic ‘Erin Brockovich’ chemical contaminates tap water of more than 250 million, EU bans fragrance chemical lilial from cosmetics and more

EWG news roundup (3/4): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
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Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Regional Issues
Midwest

EWG: In the Mississippi River region, retiring frequently flooded fields could save billions in crop insurance payouts

Farmers received almost $1.5 billion in federal crop insurance payments from 2001 to 2020 for flood-related crop losses in the Mississippi River Critical Conservation Area, a region increasingly...
Flooded farm
Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Family Health
Women's Health
Toxic Chemicals

Lose the lilial: European Union ban shows risks of chemical in cosmetics

The European Union’s ban on lilial as an ingredient in cosmetics recently took effect, serving as a timely reminder of the need to end use of the chemical in U.S. personal care products.
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Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

EWG comments on EPA's preliminary plan 15

Attached is EWG and other groups’ comments on the EPA’s Preliminary Effluent Limitations Guidelines Plan 15.
Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

NEW: EWG’s 2022 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™

Today the Environmental Working Group announced that strawberries, spinach and leafy greens are again the top offenders on its 2022 Dirty Dozen™ – a list of the most pesticide-contaminated fresh...
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Research

Timeline: Black farmers and the USDA

Timeline: Black farmers and the USDA, 1920 to present
Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Family Health
Children’s Health

Pervasive phthalates: New study links child exposure to cancer

Exposure to phthalates is widespread in the U.S., with more than three in four adults having detectable levels of the chemicals in their urine. And now a new study suggests an association between...
Children applying nail polish

EWG news roundup (11/19): Congress moves to tackle PFAS in firefighting foam and food packaging, tips for a healthy Thanksgiving and more

EWG news roundup (11/19): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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Food & Water
Food
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

FDA, not food companies, should decide whether green tea extract is safe

Consuming green tea is associated with several health benefits, such as reduced cancer risk, impacts on weight loss and lower LDL cholesterol. Credit for these effects often goes to a compound...
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EWG news roundup (12/3): The risks with green tea extract, meat’s math problem, healthier face masks and more

Last week, EWG published an analysis of epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG, an extract of green tea that’s both added to food and used as a supplement. Though credited with several health benefits, it...

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Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Household & Consumer Products
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

EWG’s 2021 gift guide

It’s hard enough to figure out the perfect gift for some people on your holiday shopping list. It can be more difficult when you factor in a desire to protect the health of your family and the...

Gift
Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Pollution
Food & Farm Workers
Family Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

EWG comments to California Department of Pesticide Regulation on the development of a statewide pesticide notification system.

The Environmental Working Group submitted comments to the California Department of Pesticide Regulation in support of the development of a statewide pesticide notification system. EWG emphasized that...

Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

Biden administration launches new federal purchasing policy to spur alternatives to “forever chemicals”

The Biden administration today issued an executive order on sustainable purchasing that directs federal agencies to seek alternatives to the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.

EWG news roundup (12/10): Defense funding bill includes over $500 million to clean up ‘forever chemicals,’ holiday gift tips and more

EWG news roundup (12/10): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG weekly news roundup
Energy
Utilities
Federal & State Energy Policy
Renewable Energy
Regional Issues
California

State regulators poised to side with PG&E and move to quash California’s rooftop solar program

Millions of California residents could soon no longer be able to afford to install rooftop solar panels and reap the financial and environmental benefits that come with the renewable source of energy...
Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Conservation
Meat and Dairy Alternatives
Factory Farms

Tackling food, farming emissions key to avoiding climate catastrophe

Even if we stopped burning fossil fuels today, greenhouse gas emissions from food and farming could make a climate catastrophe unavoidable.

Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in eggs, spotlighting need for action

Chicken eggs from homesteads and farms near Fairfield, Maine, are contaminated with the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, new testing finds, spotlighting the need for swift regulatory action to...
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Food & Water
Water
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Lead
Regional Issues
California

Sacramento’s lead line removals sidestep drinking water safeguards

To reduce lead levels in drinking water, the city of Sacramento has removed thousands of lead pipes and fittings. But it seems to have sidestepped safeguards that would have ensured residents didn’t...
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

Decades after Congress’ orders, toxics still contaminate millions of schools

More than 40 years ago, Congress banned harmful polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, from schools. And it’s been 37 years since Congress directed schools to address asbestos. But today, millions of...

Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Meat and Dairy Alternatives

More meat means more land use and even more greenhouse gases

Don’t believe the meat industry’s claims of embracing sustainability and using less land to produce more meat. Land use, and its associated greenhouse gas emissions, are rising. Plowing grassland and...

Cows
Energy
Utilities
Federal & State Energy Policy
Regional Issues
California

California officials confirm PG&E responsible for devastating Dixie Fire

California’s fire management agency has confirmed that Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) was responsible for last summer’s Dixie Fire, which burned nearly 1 million acres and destroyed more than 1,300...
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EWG news roundup (1/7): Calif. finds PG&E responsible for Dixie Fire, harmful ingredients in breakfast cereals and more

EWG news roundup (1/7): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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Research

Crop losses from climate crisis cost billions of dollars in insurance payouts

Farmers received more than $143.5 billion in federal crop insurance payments from 1995 through 2020, and just under two-thirds of it was for crop damage from drought and excess moisture exacerbated by the climate crisis, according to EWG’s new crop insurance database.
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