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Food

Eating More Veggies: A Recipe for Sustainability

The Obama administration's Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, a panel of respected scientific and medical experts who help craft the federal government's official position on nutrition, yesterday...

Research

Report: Up to 110 Million Americans Could Have PFAS-Contaminated Drinking Water

More than 1,500 drinking water systems across the country may be contaminated with the nonstick chemicals PFOA and PFOS, and similar fluorine-based chemicals, a new EWG analysis shows.
Food & Water
Food
Food
Food

An Apple A Day, Too Much Pesticide Spray

For the fifth year in a row, EWG 's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in ProduceTM ranks apples at the top of the Dirty Dozen PlusTM list of non-organic fruits and veggies with high levels of pesticide...

Household & Consumer Products
Cell Phones

Your Cell Phone Case May Increase Your Radiation Exposure

When I bought my first iPhone 3G, one of the first things I did was research the best (and cutest) cases on the market. Even though I had worked on the issues of cell phone radiation and transparency...

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

EU Study Highlights Toll of Poorly Regulated Toxic Chemicals

A groundbreaking study released today (March 5) concludes that endocrine-disrupting chemicals add at least $209 billion a year to the European Union's health costs for diseases and disabilities...

Midwest
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

House Budget Hits Hungry Kids, Spares Fat Cat Farmers

House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga) put fat cat farmers ahead of hungry kids in his 10-year budget, cutting funding for food assistance by $140 billion over ten years and cutting farm...

Research

Case Study: Corn Belt Communities Plagued by Nitrate in Tap Water

In December 2015, the 1,500 residents of Erie, Ill., received a warning that the community's tap water should not be given to babies under 6 months old, or used to mix formula or juice for those infants.
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

Industry Chemical Bill Worse Than Current Law

Consumers rightly expect that the chemicals used in everyday products are safe.

Research

Update: Mapping the Expanding PFAS Crisis

The latest update of an interactive map by EWG and the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University documents publicly known PFAS pollution from 94 sites in 22 states, including industrial plants and dumps, military air bases, civilian airports and fire training sites. It also shows PFAS pollution of tap water for 16 million people in 33 states and Puerto Rico.
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Lead
Household & Consumer Products
Children’s Health

Toxic Cadmium in Jewelry: States Lead in Protecting Kids

In the absence of adequate federal regulation of hazardous chemicals, the states have stepped up to protect public health and the environment.

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

How American Industry Skips Some Chemical Safety Checks

American industry often avoids the federal government's chemical safety checks in an unexpected way, by relying on chemicals “grandfathered” by the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, according to a...

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

EWG’s #FightForChemicalSafety Campaign

The fight for chemical safety is on! It's time for Congress to hear from you – that you're fighting for real reform and your family's health. Take a stand today and join EWG's #FightForChemicalSafety...
Research

Double Dipping: How Taxpayers Subsidize Farmers Twice for Crop Losses

After a decline in crop prices in 2014 and 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture boosted farmers' income by more than $13 billion through two newly enacted subsidy programs. But during the same period, another USDA program paid out nearly as much to “compensate” the same farmers for the same decline in prices. In all, this double-dipping cost American taxpayers almost $23.9 billion.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

Crop Insurance: Bad for Taxpayers, Bad for the Environment

Unlimited crop insurance subsidies lead growers to make planting decisions that are bad for the environment, two of the nation's most respected agricultural economists conclude in a newly published...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

The Audacity of Scope

Late Wednesday night, July 11, the House Agriculture Committee added an amendment by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to the farm bill that would severely limit states' authority to regulate conditions or...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies

Insurance for Corn, Not Kids?

On the same day that the House will vote to end health insurance subsidies for low income Americans, the House Agriculture Committee will vote to increase crop insurance subsidies for the largest and...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies
Conservation
Food & Water
Food

Really?

The farm bill proposed yesterday by House Agriculture Committee leaders would cut funds for nutrition programs and the environment to help finance new price and revenue guarantees and increase...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies

Crop Insurance Subsidy Double Speak

When the government allows oil and gas companies to avoid paying taxes, lawmakers call it a “subsidy.” But when the government pays 62 percent of the cost of obtaining crop insurance, it's called a...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food

Subsidy Buffet for Agribiz, Table Scraps for Good Food

The farm bill draft released by the Senate Agriculture Committee last week (April 20) falls far short of providing farm and food policies Americans want. In a national poll last year, 78 percent said...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation
Food & Water
Food

Local Food and The Farm Bill: Small Investments, Big Returns

For too long, funding provided by the United States' most far-reaching food and farm legislation has primarily benefited agri-business and large scale industrial-scale commodity farms that aren't...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

Farm Subsidy Research and Analysis

Since 1995 U.S. taxpayers have sent $194 billion in subsidies to farmers including $5 billion per year in fixed direct payments paid regardless of need or crop price. Below is a list of recent EWG...
Energy
California
Federal & State Energy Policy

FRAC Act Re-introduced to Senate

Amid widespread fears that the boom in “fracking” for natural gas poses a growing array of environmental threats, some members of Congress are making a new effort to reverse a 2005 law that exempted...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies

The Flip-flopper’s Guide to “Fiscal Conservatism”

Under the best-case scenarios, crop insurance alone is expected to cost taxpayers $9 billion over the next 10 years. So who are the 48 Republicans who voted for this lavish taxpayer funded giveaway?

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Farm Subsidies

Worst. Farm Bill. Ever

Farm income has never been higher. The federal deficit has never been deeper. So why are House Republicans celebrating passage of a “farm-only” farm bill that includes the most generous farm subsidies...