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Chrome-Plated Fraud

How PG&E's Scientists-For-Hire Reversed Findings of Cancer Study
» Read more... | Published December 23, 2005

National Assessment of Tap Water Quality

More than 200 contaminants with no enforceable safety limits found in the nation's drinking water
More than 200 contaminants with no enforceable safety limits found in the nation's drinking water. Search our database for your water quality reports.
» Read more... | Published December 20, 2005

Food News v. 2.0

An EWG simulation of thousands of consumers eating high and low pesticide diets shows that people can lower their pesticide exposure by 90 percent by avoiding the top twelve most contaminated fruits and vegetables and eating the least contaminated instea
» Read more... | Published October 20, 2003

Glacier Vended Water and Contaminants in California

Glacier Water Services is the largest owner-operator of drinking water vending machines in California and the U.S.
But statewide testing in California found that a third of Glacier machines sold water that failed to failed to meet California standards for a class of chemicals linked to increased risk of cancer and birth defects.
» Read more... | Published December 10, 2002

Rocket Science

Perchlorate and the Toxic Legacy of the Cold War
Sources of drinking water for more than 7 million Californians and unknown millions of other Americans are contaminated with a chemical that disrupts child development and may cause thyroid cancer, but is unregulated by the state or federal government.
» Read more... | Published July 15, 2001

Lead Pollution at Outdoor Firing Ranges: Poisonous Pastime

Lead in Outdoor Firing Ranges
Shooting ranges are poisoning children and polluting the environment with lead, yet remain almost entirely unregulated-exempt from even the Bush Administration's new lead pollution reporting rules.
» Read more... | Published May 1, 2001

A Few Bad Apples

Pesticides in Your Produce
Despite an August, 1999 ban by the federal government, an apple pesticide deemed too dangerous for children's foods has shown up in new tests of apples from Washington State.
» Read more... | Published March 31, 2000

Polluter Privilege

» Read more... | Published September 1, 1999
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