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EWG: House Farm Bill Will Resurrect Farm Subsidies for Millionaires, Billionaires and Distant Family Members

WASHINGTON – The House will vote on its version of the 2018 Farm Bill Friday. The bill would balloon the already bloated federal farm subsidy program to hand subsidy checks to individuals worth...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water

EWG Statement on Senate’s Bipartisan Farm Bill

WASHINGTON – Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group, issued the following statement today on the Senate version of the farm bill: The bipartisan farm...

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Cell Phones

EWG Comments on Peer Review of NTP's Draft Technical Reports on Cellphone Radiation

EWG submits comments on the peer review of the National Toxicology Program's draft technical reports on cellphone radio-frequency radiation. The external peer reviewers strengthened the conclusions of...

Research

Toxic Farm Fumigants Drifting Into California Neighborhoods

Testing of air in two California neighborhoods adjacent to agricultural fields receiving applications of the soil fumigant methyl bromide revealed high levels of this extremely toxic pesticide outside state mandated buffer zones. Buffer zones are recommended based on the size of the field and the rate of methyl bromide application and are intended to protect the public from exposure to unsafe

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

Groups Urge Immediate Action by EPA To Improve PFAS Disposal Guidance for Communities

The Environmental Protection Agency must take a series of steps to protect public health and the environment from the toxic fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS from being incinerated or...

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics

FDA Asks Women To Protect Themselves From Products The Agency Refused To Ban

Today, the Food and Drug Administration sent a special women's health alert and unveiled a new webpage urging caution for anyone using formaldehyde in hair-smoothing treatments, sometimes referred to...

Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

OUT NOW: EWG’s 2021 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™

Collard and mustard greens join kale among the most pesticide-contaminated fresh produce on the Environmental Working Group's 2021 Dirty Dozen™ list. For the first time, bell peppers and hot peppers...

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture

EWG Comments to EPA Opposing New Uses of Aldicarb

EWG submitted comments to the EPA in opposition to proposed new uses of the neurotoxic insecticide aldicarb on oranges and grapefruit in Texas and Florida.

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG Comments to NTP to Strengthen and Prioritize the Goal of Environmental Justice

The Environmental Working Group submitted comments urging the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Toxicology Program to strengthen and broaden the NTP efforts to identify and characterize...

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture

EWG Comments to EPA To Ban All Uses of Chlorpyrifos

The Environmental Working Group submitted comments to the EPA urging the agency to revoke the proposed interim decision for chlorpyrifos, issued in December 2020, to cancel all chlorpyrifos uses, and...

Food & Water
Food
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Study: Ditching Diet Drinks May Reduce Risk of Heart Disease

The soda industry has long been recognized as a major contributor to the obesity epidemic. In an attempt to change the narrative, Big Soda is pushing diet drinks, spending $296 million on marketing in...

EWG News Roundup (1/15): Follain Commits To Support Black-Owned Brands, Trump EPA Announces 11th-Hour Toxic Rollbacks and More

EWG News Roundup (1/15): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

Just Add Water

More than 45 million Americans in thousands of communities were served drinking water during 1994-1995 that was polluted with fecal matter, parasites, disease causing microbes, radiation, pesticides, toxic chemicals, and lead at levels that violated health standards established under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. More than 18,500 public water supplies reported at least one violation of a
Research

In The Drink

In 1993-94 over 53 million Americans drank water that did not meet Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) health or biological treatment standards or guidelines. In the Drink documents, on a community-by-community basis, drinking water utilities that have been listed as violating or exceeding these basic health and treatment safety standards.
Children’s Health
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PFAS Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

California Assembly approves bill to ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from kids products

Today the California Assembly passed Assembly Bill 652 by a vote of 53-0.
Research

In the Corn Belt, planting of cover crops plateaus, even as interest grows in their potential to address the climate crisis

The Department of Agriculture has known for almost a century that planting cover crops between growing seasons benefits soil, water and air quality. Now the USDA, heartland politicians and the agricultural industry are touting cover crops as a solution to the climate emergency.
Water
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Pollution

Minnesota appeals court ignores threat to Pineland Sands communities’ water and health

The Minnesota Court of Appeals will not reverse the state’s decision to allow more irrigation permits in the Pineland Sands region, despite the lack of full environmental review – a ruling that clears...
Crop duster photo
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals

Biden EPA reverses Trump ‘secret science’ rule

The Environmental Protection Agency today officially reversed the former Trump administration’s controversial “secret science” rule that prevented the agency from relying on the most up-to-date...
Food & Water
Food
Personal Care Products
Bug Repellent
Sunscreen
Food Chemicals

Tips for a healthy and safe Memorial Day holiday weekend

It’s Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial beginning of summer. As you get ready to spread the picnic blankets, fire up the grills and enjoy the warm evenings, EWG has useful tips for helping you and...

Family having a cook out
Research

Much Ado About Nothing

Wetlands, and federal efforts to protect them, have become the source of considerable controversy in recent years. Many opponents of the current wetlands regulatory system have made exaggerated claims about the effects of the federal wetlands permitting program on private landowners. Among those claims are that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wetlands program (authorized under Section 404 of the
Conservation

Methods: In the Corn Belt, planting of cover crops plateaus, even as interest grows in their potential to address the climate crisis

In the Upper Mississippi River Basin, cover crops are usually planted in the fall, after the cash crop has been harvested, with emergence occurring later that year or the following spring. These emergence seasons help differentiate cover crops from cash crops like corn and soybeans, which are harvested in the fall and planted in the spring.
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

PFAS news roundup

Groups petition the EPA to ban ‘forever chemicals’ in food applications, bill introduced to limit PFAS water discharges, risks of PFAS exposure in children, and more.
This week in PFAS
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

EPA chemical office takes three actions on ‘forever chemicals’

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention today announced three actions to protect the public from the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.
Consumer Guides

EWG’s Guide to Safer Cellphone Use

At least six countries have issued warnings to consumers to reduce cellphone radiation exposures, especially those of children.