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New York Food Chemical Safety Act clears state Senate
On Thursday, New Yorkers moved a step closer to a safer food supply, after the New York State Senate successfully passed a bill to get toxic chemicals out of food.
Your New Phone: Extra Radiation or Extra Features?
Most of us want the latest and smartest phones - but not at the price of high cell phone radiation. This season's good news: a batch of smart-smart phones: lower-radiation choices with plenty of...
Common cosmetics ingredient can harm sperm
Exposure to butylparaben, an ingredient common in personal care products, has been associated with DNA damage in men's sperm, according to an important new study led by John Meeker of the University...
TEDx Great Pacific Garbage Patch: 11.6.10
EWG President Ken Cook is in Los Angeles on Saturday, November 6th to talk about plastic at the TEDx Great Pacific Garbage Patch event.
Breast Cancer: One in Eight
The stats are stark: according to the National Cancer Institute, at some point in her life, one in eight American women will be told she has breast cancer.
FCC Softpedals Cell Phone Radiation
Battle lines are being drawn. Alliances formed. And as the cell phone industry wages war against San Francisco over its cell phone-labeling ordinance, many are looking east to see if the Federal...
Cosmetics safety debate on Democracy Now
It's a busy time for the multi-year effort to make cosmetics safer in the U.S.
Support the 2010 Safe Cosmetics Act. It's Urgent.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should have the authority it needs to regulate cosmetics and personal care products - so that you can trust that what you're buying is safe for you and your...
The (shocking) story behind cosmetics
Have you ever counted how many cosmetics or personal care products you use in a day? Chances are it's nearly 10.
Strawberry Lovers, Take Action
Methyl iodide: it's listed as a human carcinogen, is considered a neurotoxin and has been linked to late-term miscarriages. Now the state of California is poised to let farmers spray it on the state's...
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”...
Research
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
