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EPA Chief Backs Another Pesticide Harmful to Kids
A pesticide called dicamba has become a poster child for the arms race between ever-stronger weeds and ever-stronger weed killers.
Planting Trees Helped End the Dust Bowl. Crop Subsidies Reward Farmers Who Rip Them Out.
During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the federal government planted 220 million trees to stop the blowing soil that devastated the Great Plains.
Six Reasons to be Concerned About a Pruitt EPA
News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (Dec. 9)
News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (Jan. 20)
Now that President Donald Trump has been sworn in, the focus can now shift fully to his incoming cabinet and first presidential actions. Here are several of this week's deep dives into the new...
EPA Nominee Again a Know-Nothing on the Dangers of Lead
Did Scott Pruitt Lie to the Senate?
EPA Nominee Pruitt Refused to Promise Asbestos Ban
Last year, former President Barack Obama signed an update to the federal Toxic Substances Control Act into law, finally giving the EPA authority to ban asbestos use and importation. The agency is...
Cancer Prevention Month: Poor Air Quality May Increase Children’s Cancer Risks
We've all choked on the billowing smoke of a passing truck. But poor air quality can have more serious effects that results in chronic disease, hospital admissions and even death.
Monsanto Bullies EPA on Glyphosate Ruling
Chipotle, GMOs and Monsanto’s Toxic Glyphosate
Chipotle gets it. The popular quick-service restaurant understands that genetically engineered foods, called GMOs, are often grown in a way that is harmful to the environment.
‘Should I Throw Out My Cheerios?’ and Other Questions about Roundup in Children’s Food
Too Dangerous For War On Drugs, But O.K. For GMOs?
Does the president of Colombia care more about the health of coca cultivators than President Obama cares about the health of U.S. farmworkers?
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...
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...
