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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The most egregious flaw of the United States' toothless and outdated system of regulating chemicals is the failure to adequately and independently test chemicals for safety.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...
EWG News Roundup (2/22): Safe Levels of Exposure to PFAS Keep Getting Lower, Federal Agencies Seek Volunteers for PFAS Testing and Safer Sunscreens on the Way
EWG News Roundup (2/22): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Cosmetics Safety Bill Gains Support from Industry and Advocates
EWG News Roundup (9/21): Asbestos in U.S. Schools, House Members’ Votes on Toxic Chemical Bills and More
EWG News Roundup (9/21): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG News Roundup (12/7): EWG Analyzes Korean Beauty Trends, Coal Consumption Plummets and More
EWG News Roundup (12/7): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG’s News Roundup (12/1): Chemicals in Cribs, Investigating the EPA and More
EWG's News Roundup (12/1): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG’s News Roundup (11/17): Farmers Double Dip into Subsidies, California Leads on Clean Energy and More
In a new report this week, EWG discovered that a large swath of profitable farm operations are getting subsidized twice for one crop loss. In 2014 and 2015 these double dippers took advantage of...
EWG News Roundup (5/12): N.C. Lawmakers Favor Big Pork Over Public Health, Trump Threatens Paris Climate Agreement and Senators Take on Chemicals in Cosmetics
Here's some news you can use as you begin your weekend.
California Is Years Ahead of Schedule on Cutting Global Warming-Causing Pollution
Twelve years ago, California set a goal many energy experts thought was too ambitious: reduce climate-disrupting air pollution to 1990 levels by 2020. Last week, the state announced it had not only...
EWG News Roundup (4/12): The First EWG VERIFIED® Fragrance, Unregulated Factory Farms in Ohio and More
EWG News Roundup (4/12): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
US Seafood Advice Flawed on Mercury, Omega-3s
EWG News Roundup (5/3): Dirty Duke Energy, Assessing the Combined Risk of Water Contaminants and More
EWG News Roundup (5/3): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
We Can Take Climate Action Now – and Create Millions of Green-Collar Jobs
When Congress returns, the House will consider the Climate Action Now Act, which would direct the Trump administration to honor America's commitments to reduce greenhouse gases.
Hurricane Florence Knocked Out N.C. Coal and Nuclear Plants, but Solar and Wind Were Back Online the Next Day
As Hurricane Florence approached North Carolina last month, Duke Energy was busy securing power plants to weather the storm.
In Reversal, EPA Confirms That Fracking Pollutes Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency has just confirmed what communities near many oil and gas production fields have known for years: fracking – the injection of a chemical slurry into drilling sites...
Better Biofuels Ahead
Dirty corn ethanol was supposed to be a bridge to greener fuels, but 10 years after it was mandated, it's looking like a bridge to nowhere.
Ethanol Industry Study Fudges the Numbers
A study released today by the Renewable Fuels Association makes the bogus claim that the use of corn ethanol as a vehicle fuel reduced emissions by 240 million tons of carbon dioxide since 2008.
Corn Ethanol Is Not a Renewable Fuel
Production of corn ethanol has led growers to plow up of millions of acres of prairie grassland and wetlands to plant more corn. By the Environmental Protection Agency's own definition, this means...
Why Is Congress Bending Over Backwards to Protect Polluters?
Days after the United Nations released startling new data showing that agriculture's contribution to climate change is getting worse, the House and Senate Appropriations committees approved spending...
