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‘City slicker’ farm payments top $2B – and House GOP bill would make problem worse
Almost 80,000 “city slickers” living in some of the biggest metro areas in the U.S. took in more than $2 billion in farm subsidies between 2020 and 2024. Many recipients used loopholes that allow the...
House budget bill’s top farm subsidy loopholes and giveaways
Farm subsidies already favor the largest farms . But the budget reconciliation bill the House will consider this week is packed with farm subsidy loopholes that would make the problem worse. These...
Transcript of EWG podcast ‘Ken Cook Is Having Another Episode' – Episode 33
In this podcast episode, EWG President and co-Founder Ken Cook talks with Dr. Aly Cohen about how lifestyle changes can help with protecting the immune system.
French law informs, protects cell phone users
France will soon become the first nation anywhere to require merchants to inform consumers of the radiation levels of cell phones at the point of sale.
Tell Congress: Pass the Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act
With the aftershocks from this month's midterm election still reverberating around the nation, the "lame-duck" Congress returning to Washington for one last week's work is largely ready to punt most...
EWG Honors CA Officials for Efforts to Protect Public Health and Environment
Six dedicated public servants in California will be honored tonight in San Francisco for their shared commitment to protecting the health and environment of Californians.
Texas Schools are Drilling for Dollars
Pro sports teams regularly use signing bonuses to lure the star athletes they want. Now some Texas school districts are taking the bait, too.
Introducing: EWG's Guide to Healthy Child Care
Truth is, when my husband and I chose a childcare facility for our kids (way back in 2003), the question of environmental health didn't even cross our minds.
Federal grants to promote pesticides? Oh, my.
More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials' award of a $180,000 taxpayer-funded grant to a...
Rachel Maddow: Don't Frack Me, Bro!
For a while there, it was just environmental watchdogs like EWG and film makers like Josh Fox (Gasland) and Debra Anderson (Split Estate) talking about the environmental consequences of hydraulic...
Yes we can - and should - make our food safer
We're all used to hearing Big Food and Big Ag brag about America having "the safest food supply in the world," usually as a warm-up for complaining that EWG and other critics of our food system are...
Is your sunscreen in EWG's Sunscreen Hall of Shame?
When it comes to protecting yourself from the sun, it's easy to go wrong. To help you go right, instead, we whipped up a list of the really bad actors because sometimes, knowing what's on the "avoid"...
All about sunscreen: Live chat with EWG
On May 24th, we released our 4th annual Sunscreen Guide. While our basic message is pretty straight forward - cover up first, slop on some effective sunscreen next - the sunscreen choices are so...
New Science, New Solutions Explored at Heinz Conference
Since 1996 Teresa Heinz has been pioneering the way women approach common (and not so common) health concerns with her annual conference "Women's Health & the Environment."
CNN's Sanjay Gupta MD interviews EWG President Ken Cook
Last weekend Dr. Gupta's short interview with EWG Founder & President, Ken Cook, aired on CNN's Sanjay Gupta MD show.
Kids' Food a Fly Won't Touch
A Denver grandmother of eight, who happens to be a trained nutritionist, decided to see for herself just how effective the preservatives used in large segments of the U.S. food system actually are.
Thank you, Administrator Jackson
It's not news that getting anything substantive through Congress these days is like pushing very big rocks uphill, even when there is remarkable consensus on a topic.
Learn about the methodology behind EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™
Background EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ ranks popular fresh fruits and vegetables based on levels of pesticide contamination and toxicity. EWG has released the Shopper’s Guide...
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GOP budget bill boosts crop insurance payouts to wealthy corporations, insurance middlemen
Almost $37 billion in federal crop insurance payments went to a small number of insurance companies and agents, a new EWG analysis finds. And the House-passed GOP budget bill and the bill proposed by the Senate could send even more money their way. The bill would hike those payments in part by slashing billions in food assistance funds, harming millions of hungry people to benefit wealthy
EWG applauds reintroduction of Senate bill to close food chemical safety loopholes
Today Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) reintroduced legislation to strengthen food chemical safety by closing regulatory loopholes and requiring the reassessment of chemicals of...
California Supreme Court considers the legality of net metering change that harms rooftop solar
Should California’s utility regulators be allowed to make sweeping energy policy decisions without fully considering the benefits of rooftop solar to all Californians? And are those decisions exempt...
If you ask a caveman a chemistry question...
Good news. Maine governor Paul LePage claims he has read the scientific research on the health dangers posed by bisphenol-A, the plastic component and synthetic estrogen.
California Senate committee advances landmark bill to protect schoolkids from harmful UPF
SACRAMENTO – Advancing commonsense policy to protect children’s health, the California Senate Education Committee today passed a bipartisan bill that would phase out certain ultra-processed food , or...
A farm bill for the one-tenth of the 1%
Don’t call it a budget reconciliation bill. Call it a “farm bill for the one-tenth of the 1%”.
