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Obstruction of Justice
Virtual Flood: Virtual Water, Real Profits
Double Dippers
IRS Form 990 for the Environmental Working Group
Natural Gas Adds To Greenhouse Problem
In his State of the Union address, President Obama perpetuated a misleading idea -- that natural gas can reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that lead to global warming.
EWG’s FracFocus Principles
A growing number of states – Texas, Montana, Colorado and South Dakota, to name a few – are requiring oil and gas drilling companies to disclose the chemicals they use for hydraulic fracturing, or...
California Set to Declare BPA Toxic to Reproductive System
In the last decade. Study after study by scientists from around the globe has connected the plastics and food packaging ingredient with more than a dozen serious health problems, including...
Methane Hunt Shines Light on Natural Gas
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is only the latest of a number of commentators who have been advancing the dubious argument that expanding use of natural gas is mitigating climate change.
New Chemicals: Sell First, Test for Safety Later?
A lot of people assume a company can't sell a chemical until it is has been proved safe. They're wrong. Under current law, the Environmental Protection Agency is charged with determining that a...
EWG's Guide to Safe Drinking Water
Friends and Foes of Organic Food
The Alliance for Food and Farming, which is run out of a P.O. box in Watsonville, Calif., claims to extol the health benefits of consuming both conventional and organic produce and maintains that its...
When Are Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes "Superbugs?"
Our report struck at nerve at FDA. The agency issued a statement calling it “misleading” and “alarmist.” You can read our full response here. Essentially, the FDA argued that antibiotic-resistance to...
Across U.S., Toxic Blooms Pollute Lakes
In 2010, there were just three reports of toxic blooms in the U.S. In 2015, there were 15, including the largest to date in Lake Erie, although the bacteria did not get into Toledo's drinking water. In 2016, there were 51, including a huge bloom in Florida that prompted the state to declare an emergency in four counties on the Atlantic Coast. Last year, 169 blooms were reported. And in March, Ohio
Breakfast With a Dose of Roundup?
Plantation workers v. Dole: Whose victory was it?
At the Gym: Foam Pits Filled with Fire Retardants
A landmark study led by Courtney Carignan of the Dartmouth Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research has found that the blood of 11 female collegiate gymnasts ages 18...
Genetic Engineering Has No Place In “Natural” Foods
Supermarket shelves are loaded with products that display the label “natural.” The food industry likes to use the word to persuade consumers that what they're buying is somehow better for them, their...
Genetic Engineering Has No Place In “Natural” Foods
Supermarket shelves are loaded with products that display the label “natural.” The food industry likes to use the word to persuade consumers that what they're buying is somehow better for them, their...
FDA is trying (again) to clean up your hand soap
The federal Food and Drug administration has announced proposed rules that could drive unnecessary and potentially dangerous products from the market -- antibacterial hand soaps like those marketed by...
What We Can Learn From West Virginia
On January 9, more than 7,500 gallons of a chemical used to process coal – crude MCHM – spilled into West Virginia's Elk River at a facility owned by Freedom Industries.
Snow White and Her Seven Drilling Rigs
As a mom of an eight-year-old and a six-year old, I can't escape Disney. But thankfully, my little princesses haven't yet been exposed to the company's pro-fracking campaign, “Rockin' in Ohio.”
For 50 Years, Polluters Knew PFAS Chemicals Were Dangerous But Hid Risks From Public
As far back as 1950, studies conducted by 3M showed that the family of toxic fluorinated chemicals now known as PFAS could build up in our blood. By the 1960s, animal studies conducted by 3M and DuPont revealed that PFAS chemicals could pose health risks. But the companies kept the studies secret from their employees and the public for decades. Here is a timeline of internal memos, studies and
EWG’s Top Ten Environmental Health Stories of 2013
When EWG's staff voted on the most important environmental health stories of 2013 that didn't directly involve agriculture, it turned out that antibiotic overuse was at the top of the list. Of course...
