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Dangerous Levels of Mercury Found in Skin Creams Purchased on Amazon, eBay

Today, 51 environmental and public health groups, including EWG, called on Amazon and eBay to remove illegal skin care products containing dangerous levels of mercury.

Children’s Health
Household & Consumer Products

Gifts Without the Guilt: 11 Things To Give Your Kids for the Holidays

You shop for fruit and veggies with the EWG Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists and use only EWG VERIFIED® mascara. Yet when the time comes to shower your kids with holiday gifts that are good for...
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

Breathe Easy: Healthier Indoor Air in Cold Weather, Part 3

Kids spend up to 90 percent of their time indoors, often playing with toys and games they frequently put in their mouths. But playthings can release harmful chemicals such as hormone-disrupting...
Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (12/21): Farm Subsidies for Millionaires, Trump Ignores Consumers with GMO Rule and More

News Roundup (12/21): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

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

EWG News Roundup (6/28): Senate Combats PFAS Crisis, EWG Calls Upon CDC To Act on Glyphosate and More

EWG News Roundup (6/28): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Personal Care Products
Bug Repellent
Household & Consumer Products
Children’s Health

EWG’s Top Three Bug Repellent Recommendations for Kids

It's that time of year: Mosquitoes and ticks are out in full force, and so are all the latest bug repellent products claiming to keep them at bay. So what bug repellent ingredients do EWG scientists...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

How To Avoid Brain-Damaging Chlorpyrifos in Milk and Produce

You may know that many conventional oat cereals contain troubling amounts of the carcinogenic pesticide glyphosate. But another toxic pesticide may be contaminating your kids' breakfast.

Research

Murky Waters

Forty years after the Clean Water Act became law, the data are clear: Iowa's rivers and streams are still murky. The pollution that continues to degrade them has become a case study on the consequences of the most serious flaw in this historic and otherwise effective federal law: It does little or nothing to address agricultural pollution.
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Energy
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (8/2): Rich Farmers Get Bailed Out by Trump, Steps To Combat the PFAS Contamination Crisis and More

EWG News Roundup (8/2): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Asbestos
Pesticides
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water

10 Ways Trump Has Undermined Chemical Safety

President Trump toured a Shell chemical plant in Pennsylvania Tuesday, supposedly to promote his economic agenda. According to reports, he went off script quite a bit – but one thing he definitely...

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

EWG News Roundup (8/23): Big Energy Bends the Truth About Solar, Trump Team Hypocrites on Asbestos and More

EWG News Roundup (8/23): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Household & Consumer Products

Independent Pet Food Task Force Includes Pet Food Co. Scientists

Reprinted from CSPI's Integrity in Science Watch: Proctor & Gamble has launched a massive advertising blitz to counter consumer fears about the rising death toll from poisoned pet food. The firm took...
Farm Subsidies

Critic of "Bottom Feeders" Got $1 Million in Farm Subsidies

An Iowa state senator who called public workers requesting better retirement benefits “bottom feeders with their hand out” has been caught with his own hand in the cookie jar. Sen. Mark Zieman was...
Children’s Health
Household & Consumer Products

3 Things New Parents Do Differently Today to Protect Babies’ Health

If you're a new parent, it can be confusing to keep up with the latest recommendations about how to give your baby a healthy start. As scientists learn more about the dangers of toxic chemical...

EWG News Roundup (10/11): California Bans Brain Damaging Pesticide, Algae Blooms Across U.S. Swell in 2019 and More

EWG News Roundup (10/11): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

For PFAS, Hazardous Designation Is Not a Ban

Designating the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS as “hazardous substances” is critical to cleaning up legacy contamination of a chemical linked to cancer.
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

10 Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Louisville, Ky., Tap Water

A sample of residential tap water in Louisville, Ky, contained 10 different compounds in the family of toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS, according to laboratory tests commissioned by the...
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

PFAS Exposure May Increase Risk of Breast Cancer

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month – as you may have noticed from the annual explosion of pink products claiming to fund breast cancer research.

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies

Trump Campaign Advisors Receive Over $2 Million in Trade Bailout Payments

Fifteen members of an agribusiness council that advised Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign have received $2.2 million from the federal bailout program for farmers hurt by the president's trade...

EWG News Roundup (12/6): Key PFAS Legislation in Jeopardy, the Trump-Wheeler ‘Red Wedding’ and More

EWG News Roundup (12/6): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

Healthy Food Gets Short Shrift

Fruit and vegetable growers have historically been left out of agriculture policy, even though they provide foods that are vital for improving America's nutrition and reducing the costly toll of diet-related diseases. The 2008 farm bill began to correct this misguided policy by providing modest but important gains for programs that promote the production, research and marketing of fruits, nuts and

EWG News Roundup (12/20): Congress Fails on PFAS, Trump EPA’s Bear Hug for Hormone-Disrupting Pesticide, and More

EWG News Roundup (12/20): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (1/10): Trump Threatens To Derail PFAS Action, California Fails To Test Infants for Lead and More

EWG News Roundup (1/10): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

Study: PFAS Exposure Through Skin Causes Harm Similar to Ingestion

Exposure through the skin to the toxic fluorinated chemical once used to make Teflon could pose the same health hazards as ingesting the compound in water or food, according to a new animal study from...