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EPA is Behind Schedule in Curbing Childhood Lead Poisoning
"The Clinton administration in 2000 set a goal to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010. To achieve that, in the next two years the EPA would have to reduce the estimated cases to 90,000 from...
What General Motors has Learned from Big Tobacco
This summer, kids will be getting toy Hummers with their Happy Meals thanks to a new McDonald's promotion to bring “the fun and excitement of Hummer vehicles” to “McDonald's youngest guests.” In a...
"Ok, Ok--So I Hid My Industry Ties, But Everybody's Doin' It!"
Recently there's been plenty of debate within scientific, regulatory, and public health circles about the role of industry funding in scientific research and on government advisory panels--with robust...
Are the National Academies Fair and Balanced?
Today Center for Science in the Public (CSPI) Interest hosted a public forum to discuss conflicts of interest on National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issue panels. CSPI's most notable finding was that...
UPDATE to Cook v. Combest
Purdue University has offered to host one of a series of debates on farm subsidies and the next farm bill that EWG president Ken Cook has proposed to former House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry...
Dell to Offer Free Recycling of Old PCs
Dell is expanding its services to include free recycling of any of their computers, regardless of whether its being replaced by a new Dell product. This goes one step beyond the policy of rival...
Consumers Willing to Pay for Greener PCs
The BBC reports that a study commissioned by Greenpeace reveals consumers want more environmentally friendly PCs. What's so bad about computers? Well--they contain, among other nasty chemicals: lead...
Something In The Air
As Reported in the L.A. Times, a recent study of teeneagers in Los Angeles and New York found that contaminants in indoor air made up 40-50% of participants' cancer risk. The two main culprits cited...
Consumer's Union Concurring with EWG
According to a Consumer's Union study, canned tuna is off the menu for pregnant women due to elevated levels of mercury commonly found in the product. The report follows a 2005 Chicago Tribune...
FDA Test Finds High Benzene Levels in Soda
Last Friday, FDA released results of a limited sampling of sodas the agency tested for benzene, thanks in part to the more than 4,300 signatures on EWG's benzene petition asking the agency to remove...
Tuna Warning Overturned
A California Superior Court judge has overturned a ruling requiring tuna companies to brand their cans with mercury warning labels under the state's Prop 65 legislation.
The Next Green Revolution: How technology is leading environmentalism out of the anti-business, anti-consumer wilderness.
Enviromental news article from Wired Magazine.
Wetland: Land That Gets Watered?
It's all fair enough. Some of these environmental terms sound like we should all know what they are, but in fact have precise technical definitions: watershed, wetland, sediment to name just three. So...
East Coast Group Running Ad Campaign for a West Coast Congressman?
Environmental Action, a Boston-based advocacy group, is taking a poll on which of two anti-Pombo ads you would prefer to see run in Rep. Pombo's district. Each ad protests the potential sale of up to...
EPA Study: Week of Organics Cleans Pesticides from Kids' Blood
A new EPA study fed 23 Seattle children an all-organic diet for a week and saw the pesticide levels in their blood drop to virtually zero. As soon as the kids started back on their conventional diets...
DuPont Employee Union Maps Company's Toxic Legacy
The people who know DuPont best – its workers – have launched a website that pulls no punches about the company's health and safety practices. “Throughout its history, DuPont has ignored scientific...
FDA: We Don't Know What's in Tuna Cans
Apparently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) relies on the same sources of information as the general public to learn what's in popular foods: the newspaper.
Canada Bans Hair Dye Ingredient
Lead acetate, an ingredient used in personal care products such as men's hair dye, has been banned in Canada over fears of cancer and reproductive toxicity. The chemical has been banned in Europe, and...
Grist spotlights farm bill debate
Like a barnyard sow basking in attention at a county fair, the farm bill -- that monstrously complex five-year plan for federal agriculture policy -- has suddenly gained a high profile.
Society seeks support for "peculiar" animals
The Zoological Society of London highlighted 100 species – ranging from the spiny long beaked echidna to the potentially already extinct Yangtze river dolphins – for their new program EDGE...
Plant a tree for your new PC
Dell has a new program to plant a tree for each computer it sells, saying it could offset CO2 emissions from the machines. I'm not sure who did the math on that, but the program is commendable...
Frog researcher lectures Mayo Clinic docs on widely used weed-killer
Doctors at the Mayo Clinic heard a dire warning on the possible link between a widely used weed-killer and cancer. In a forum usually reserved for medical researchers, amphibian endocrinologist Tyrone...
Activists use research keep pollution out of their neighborhoods
"Neighborhood activists from California to Washington, D.C., are using a growing body of research on how pollutants exacerbate illness to block the building of facilities, relocate residents from...
Organic farmed fish a contradiction in terms
Can fish really be “organic?” Well, that depends how the USDA shapes that definition in the coming years. Currently the agency has no standards for what qualifies a fish as organic and it seems they...