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Ga. City Suspends Pesticide Use on Athletic Fields
After a local 15-year-old was hospitalized due to what doctors speculated was a reaction to pesticides on her soccer field, Peachtree City, Ga., has temporarily stopped spraying fields and is looking...
Asbestos Bill's Fuzzy Math Draws More Condemnation
More and more groups are examining the Senate asbestos bill called FAIR and finding it doesn't keep its promises – to anyone. Environmental Working Group's research has shown that the Senate's answer...
Congress, Spare Food Stamps
As the New York Times editorialized on August 17, Congress will soon debate how to trim the nation's agricultural budget by $3 billion dollars. EWG agrees with the Times that Congress should not cut...
Flame retardants ingested through household dust
New research confirms that people can take up brominated flame retardants (PBDEs) from the dust in their homes.
Wall Street Journal story of the day: Organic Foods
From Buz Livingston at Motley Fool: Yesterday's most popular article on The Wall Street Journal's online edition (www.wsj.com) was not Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC) 39% drop in earnings, nor was it...
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH to be adapted for young adults
Publishers Penguin and Rodale have announced today a joint effort to publish an adaptation of Al Gore's book AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL WARMING for young readers.
Inconvenient Truth 2 with Cameron Diaz?
Al Gore's Nashville-based Climate Project expects to train well over 1,000 volunteers to be effective messengers of climate change science through slideshow presentations. Al's use of the slideshow...
Experimental Xerox paper erases itself
Feel guilty about those documents you print out, only to be read once and then tossed? Not guilty enough to strain your eyes reading every last word from your computer screen? Xerox Corporation thinks...
EPA considers dropping landmark lead restrictions
Battery makers and lead smelters have been lobbying the Bush administration to roll back standards that keep lead out of gasoline and their efforts may prove successful for industry, that is...
Fluoridated water for infants still on shelves
In a little-noticed but dramatic turnaround, the nation's leading fluoride advocate, The American Dental Association (ADA), issued an alert on November 9th urging parents to avoid fluoridated water...
Are the new hydrogen cars as clean as they claim?
BMW has announced the introduction of the first hydrogen powered luxury car. Rather than C02, pure water vapor drips from its exhaust pipe. While the hydrogen tank's range is limited to 200 kilometers...
French proposal to tax non-Kyoto supporters
As the climate change talks in Nairobi stagger forward, the French have thrown a new proposal into an already sludgy mix. Instead of allowing the world's worst polluters, the United States and China...
Westland's Water Subsidies More Corporate Welfare
Bakersfield Californian, Bill Walker Published October 29, 2005 In his recent Community Voices column, the president of Westlands Water District blasted Environmental Working Group's investigation of...
Cotton and Accountability
With first compliance deadline in WTO cotton decision looming, Brazil explores a novel trade retaliation: suspension of intellectual property rights for U.S. products.
Building a Balanced Meal
A few staple recipes, along with our tips on putting healthy meals together, will give you the tools to create a long-lasting, nutritious lifestyle in line with EWG's Cancer Defense Diet.
Conservation Cuts in Spending Bills Grab Attention of Environmental Groups
Hoosier Ag Today, Gary Truitt Published September 12, 2008 Environmental groups are not happy to see the Senate is already trying to cut spending levels for some of the conservation programs included...
EWG and Allies Urge Defeat of Biofuels Green House Gas Analysis Exemption
On behalf of our millions of members and activists, we strongly urge you to oppose the Emerson Amendment (#019) and any other attempts to sidestep the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) process...
Time's running out to comment on water contract negotiations
Federal regulators are negotiating an agricultural water contract in the Central Valley, the latest of several dozen deals that could tie up water resources for the next 50 years. Thursday is the...
Session will look at water contracts
Feds reopen talks after criticism from environmentalists. Fresno Bee, Staff Published January 14, 2006 Federal officials are reopening negotiations on the renewal of some farm water contracts after...
Cities and farmers fight over water rights
United Press International, Staff Published January 15, 2006 BIG SKY, Mont. -- Environmentalists, fishermen and city officials are challenging the farmers and ranchers who have long controlled water...
Ag Groups Want Water Allocation Change
Capital Press Agricultural Weekly, Chip Power A handful of the Central Valley's influential agricultural interests pleaded with a congressional panel to roll back portions of a 14-year-old federal law...
Ethanol Positions Affected Rural Vote
Corn grower Tim Recker says Barack Obama's relatively strong showing in rural Iowa should provide a warning to both parties: Attack ethanol subsidies at your peril.
Group Calls for 'Greener' Gas
Ft. Collins Coloradoan, David Young Published March 11, 2009 A group of America's ethanol producers dedicated to furthering the nation's economy through cleaner, "greener" energy has called upon the U...