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Dr. Weil on EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce
Dr. Andrew Weil, renowned medical expert on natural health and wellness, tells why and how he uses the Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists from EWG's Shoppers Guide to Pesticides. As he says, "We should...
Preventing Cancer: 9 Practical Tips for Consumers
By Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior V-P for Research Four of every 10 Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes, and two of every 10 will die of it. But there are some things you can do to...
Have a Coke and a Smile? Maybe Not.
Do big corporations care about what large blocks of their shareholders have to say about company practices? I don't know. I've never worked for one.
EWG's Healthy Home Checklist: Assess your house
The good news is that there's a lot of information available these days about how to reduce your exposures to toxic chemicals at home. The bad news, of course, is exactly that: there's a lot of...
Greening your family: One woman's inspiration
My public health ethics class began with the intense, young professor asking a simple question: What do you value the most?
Healthy Home Tip: Green cleaning this spring
Spring has sprung, so here at EWG our "to do" list now includes a little spring cleaning. Green cleaning, of course. Why green?
CNN on cell phone safety
When we released our cell phone radiation report in Fall 2009, we heightened a national conversation about the issue. Our consumer database is helping people choose lower-radiation phones and our 8...
Blue Vinyl: Good movie. Bad plastic.
As you might imagine, I've seen my share of movies about toxic chemicals. There are a bunch, many of them excellent.
EPA should start where chemical contamination begins: In utero
By Alex Formuzis, EWG Director of Communications A comprehensive plan to reform the nation's primary law responsible for regulating the use of industrial chemicals is about to be introduced in...
EWG statement on Sen. Marshall’s Better Food Disclosure Act
Yesterday Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) introduced a bill that would, if enacted, fall short of what is needed to close the regulatory gap that allows food ingredients onto the market that have not...
Tyson Foods agrees to stop making ‘net-zero’ and ‘climate-smart beef’ claims
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Working Group has reached a settlement in its lawsuit alleging that Tyson Foods’ promises to reach “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and sell “climate-smart”...
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Apples to apples: Organic varieties can be an affordable way to reduce pesticide exposure
With colder weather and Thanksgiving looming, this is a great time to make delicious warm apple pie, crisp and more. The only question is what kind of apples to use. New EWG research may provide answers – it shows that organic apples, long seen as a splurge, can sometimes cost about the same as non-organic varieties that may have pesticide residue. As food prices soar and families look to protect
California violated state law when it gutted rooftop solar program, EWG claims in legal brief
SAN FRANCISCO – California utility regulators violated state law by approving policy changes pushed by monopoly utilities that severely throttled a once-thriving rooftop solar market, the...
Congress opens door to more ‘forever chemicals’ contamination at military bases
WASHINGTON – The House today released an update to the National Defense Authorization Act , or NDAA, for fiscal year 2026 that could result in more contamination by the toxic “forever chemicals” known...
Bridge to nowhere: Trump bailout to again flow to the largest, wealthiest farms, leaving struggling farmers behind
WASHINGTON – Today the Trump administration announced yet another multibillion-dollar round of trade-war-related bailouts for the agricultural industry. The $12 billion the administration is set to...
EWG statement on new federal dietary guidelines
WASHINGTON – Today the federal government published new dietary guidelines that urge Americans to pump the brakes on eating highly processed foods – often called ultra-processed food, or UPF. Research...
CNN's Sanjay Gupta, MD on federal chemicals policy
EWG has long known the Toxic Substances Control Act (aka "TSCA") needs to be overhauled. Most Enviroblog readers likely do, too - because we talk about it a lot.
The new crop of eco-films: Which should you see?
With green being the new black, there are more than a few environmental documentaries to choose from when popping that (not-in-the-microwave) popcorn.
Top 10 Environment Stories of the Decade -- That You Might Have Missed
EWG staffers put our heads together to come up with this list of bad news environmental stories of the last decade that people might have missed. But there were plenty of big stories that hardly...
Louisiana Bucket Brigade...
A group of Lousiana residents who track the air quality in the vacinity of refineries. Their website can be found here: http://www.labucketbrigade.org/
California senator introduces 'balcony solar' bill to lower energy bills for millions of households
Update appended SACRAMENTO – A bill introduced Monday in the California Senate offers a practical, affordable and clean path to relief from historically high electricity prices that hurt middle- and...
How plugging into the sun could help Californians lower their energy bills
Californians, who face some of the highest electricity rates in the country, could get financial relief from something as simple as plugging a device into an outlet at home. Plug-in solar technologies...
New York state lawmakers introduce bill to ban the herbicide paraquat, linked to Parkinson’s disease
ALBANY, N.Y. – Lawmakers today introduced legislation to ban the use of paraquat, one of the most toxic herbicides allowed for use in the U.S. The lawmakers cited overwhelming scientific evidence...
