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EWG News Roundup (3/30): Pruitt’s Pesticide Anniversary and $50 Condo, Chemicals Causing Weight Gain and More
Roundup 3/30: Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG’s News Roundup (3/16): Scrutinizing Stain-Resistant Carpets, Mining the Grand Canyon and More
Roundup 3/16: Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG’s 2014 Shopper’s Guide To Avoiding GMO Food
News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (Dec. 16)
Imports of Organic Corn and Soybeans Topped $1.5 Billion Since 2012
EWG’s News Roundup (2/9): A Must-Read Book for Parents, Asbestos in Children’s Cosmetics and More
EWG News Roundup (2/9): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Toxic Stew
Chemicals in Everyday Products Rival Cars as Source of Air Pollution
Releases from chemical products, including ones we use every day in our homes, are as much a cause of air pollution as automobile emissions, according to a new study that has big implications for how...
EWG’s News Roundup (3/2): EPA’s Pruitt Axes Environmental Health Center, Calif. Judge Blocks Pesticide Spraying by State Ag Agency and More
News Roundup (3/2): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG’s News Roundup (3/9): Shazi Visram Joins EWG Board, Pruitt Gets ‘Report Card’ and More
News Roundup (3/9): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Strict Work Requirements to Get Food Stamps, But Not Farm Subsidies
Proposals to tighten work requirements for low-income Americans who receive food stamps are halting progress on a new farm bill – meanwhile, work requirements for farm subsidies are almost nonexistent...
Scott Pruitt Has Literally Made Washington – and America – More Toxic
Mired in multiple scandals of his own making, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt attempted to shift the blame to “toxic” Washington yesterday. Photo courtesy of AP Photos
House Committee’s Farm Bill Would Make It Easier for Millionaires to Get Subsidies
The majority of federal farm subsidies already go to the wealthiest farmers: The top 10 percent of recipients received 77 percent of subsidies between 1995 and 2016. But a provision in the House...
Iowa's Low Hanging Fruit
Senate Bill Would Improve Water Quality in Critical Watersheds Nationwide
As House Weighs GOP Farm Bill, Subsidy Spending Keeps Soaring
Federal farm subsidies are now likely to cost almost $12.6 billion more than originally anticipated when lawmakers passed the 2014 Farm Bill.
Communities Near GMO Fields Sprayed By Monsanto's Glyphosate
One reason nine out of 10 Americans want genetically engineered, “GMO,” food to be labeled is their concern over the escalation of herbicide spraying on hundreds of millions of acres of GMO crops.
BB and CC Creams
Study: Glyphosate Doubles Risk of Lymphoma
Scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer have found what appears to be a strong link between pesticide exposure and a blood cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Monsanto’s Glyphosate Blankets GMO Crops Near Schools
Genetically engineered crops, or GMOs, have led to an explosion in growers' use of herbicides, with the result that children at hundreds of elementary schools across the country go to class close by...
Cancer Risks From Monsanto’s Weedkiller Deserve Further Scrutiny, Government Agency Says
A new analysis of Monsanto's signature herbicide, glyphosate, released by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, gives weight...
GMO Weed Killer’s Cancer Risk
Glyphosate – the active herbicide in the widely used Monsanto's Roundup and Dow Agrosciences Enlist Duo weedkillers – is “probably carcinogenic to humans,” a working group of scientists at the World...
Five Reasons to Skip Bottled Water