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Pesticides
Food

Pesticide Defenders Say the Darndest Things

In an interview last week (Jan. 16) at the pesticide lobby's D.C. headquarters, Washington State University Environmental Toxicology Professor Allan Felsot told Energy and Environment News...
Chemical Policy
Energy
Food & Water

Hey Parents: Read This Book, Then Save the Planet, Would Ya?

We parents give a lot of orders. "Put your pajamas away. Clear the table, please. Don't pull the cat's tail!" But in her new book, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental...
Household & Consumer Products
Children’s Health

Don't Let Toxic Toys Grinch Your Holiday!

There may be 12 days of Christmas and eight days of Hannukah, but EWG has boiled the shopping hullabaloo down to the number five: five ways to detox your holiday shopping. And, no, our list does not...
Midwest
Food

Join EWG to talk school lunch

Ann Cooper isn't called "The Renegade Lunch Lady" for nothing. She calls it like it is, and she can because she's been there -- in the kitchens, in the schools, with the kids.
Food

Feeding the kids and caring for the planet? Yes we can.

Luckily, she's been helping families convert that chaos (hungry kids, tired parents, no dinner!) into a more organized, pleasant, and healthy mealtime. When we stare blankly at the fridge, hoping for...
Toxic Chemicals
Children’s Health

Rubber Ducky: You're so not the one

The first question we usually get asked about our book, Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things, is: "What's up with the unusual title? A rubber duck? Dangerous?"

History of the war on cancer no longer secret

We here at Enviroblog loathe chemical waste. You regular readers may have caught that. Most people don't know enough about it, though -- about its sources and the nasty things it may be doing to our...
Food

Government Should Help Poor, Not Rich

The Environmental Working Group joins other food, poverty and hunger groups calling for an increase in food stamp benefits.
Cosmetics
Sunscreen

Sunscreen or Sunscam?

Almost a year after consumer concerns pushed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to promise tougher sunscreen standards, an investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreen products finds that...
Energy
Energy
Food & Water
Water

Surge in Uranium Mining Claims Spurs Concern for Drinking Water Safety

In response to the threat that surging mining claims along the Colorado pose to drinking water in Las Vegas, the General Manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), Patricia Mulroy, sent a...
Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

EWG Warns Senate Over Rocket Fuel in Nation's Drinking Water

For almost 50 years, the federal government, defense contractors and the chemical industry have worked together to block public health protections against a component of rocket fuel that can disrupt...
Energy
Midwest

Biofuels and Bad Weather: America’s Food-to-Fuel Gamble

With relentless rains, cold temperatures, and record floods pounding the Midwest, the nation's ill-conceived corn ethanol mandate appears headed into a perfect storm, helping to push food and feed...
Energy

Mining Threats to Grand Canyon and Crested Butte Halted

As pressure mounts to overhaul the antiquated 1872 Mining Law, two high-profile mining operations have come to a halt - one along the south rim of the Grand Canyon, and the other right above the...
Water

Major Infant Bottled Water Company Provides Parents with Misleading & False Information About Benefits of Fluoridated Water

One of the nation's biggest infant bottle water companies – Nursery Water - is misleading parents with erroneous information on its website and advertising materials touting the safety and benefits of...
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Government Report Focuses on Agriculture as 'Dead Zone' Culprit

Today the USGS released findings that show agricultural practices in 9 states contribute 75% of the nitrogen and phosphorous pollution to the “Dead Zone” in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Currently, the...
Toxic Chemicals

Chemical Exposures on the Job May Be Linked to Diseases in Nurses

A first ever national survey of nurses' exposures to chemicals, pharmaceuticals and radiation on the job suggests there are links between serious health problems such as cancer, asthma, miscarriages...

Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

U.S. One-Year Olds Overexposed to Rocket Fuel Chemical

One of every 16 one-year-old children in the U.S. is exposed to the rocket fuel chemical perchlorate at levels above the government's safe dose, according to an Environmental Working Group analysis of...
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water
Food
Food

Tonight: EWG’s Ken Cook to Debate GMO Labeling Initiative at Commonwealth Club

Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, will join other experts at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club at 6 p.m. tonight for a debate on California ballot initiative Proposition 37, to...

Research

Gas Gouge Calculator

Americans in 50 metro areas will pay $83 billion more for gasoline this year at $3 per gallon, compared to the prices they paid in February 2003 — and even more if prices continue to rise as expected, says a new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis that calculates the increased cost of gasoline per family in the 50 largest metro areas.
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

GAO: After Decades and Billions Spent On Voluntary Measures Agriculture Pollution Remains Unchecked

A new Government Accountability Office report recommends that Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency should toughen the federal Clean Water Act's approach to curbing pollution from...

Food & Water
Food

200 Groups Call on Obama to Keep Campaign Pledge: Label GMOs

Congressional champions for GE labeling, led by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., held a press conference in support of a letter sent to President Obama. Congressional leaders were joined by Center for Food...

Flame Retardants

Chemical Company Sues California Over Flame Retardants

The chemical company Chemtura sued the state of California yesterday seeking to block new fire safety regulations that would permit furniture production without toxic flame retardants.

Food & Water
Food

New EWG Guide Aims to Help Shoppers Avoid GE Food

A new shopping guide released by the Environmental Working Group today will help consumers find supermarket foods made without ingredients likely to be genetically engineered.

Food & Water
Food
Food

Proposed Nutritional Label Will Promote Healthier Diets

The long-overdue changes to the Nutrition Facts label announced today by First Lady Michelle Obama would improve Americans' diets and promote healthier eating, Environmental Working Group said in a...