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Don't get slimed: Skip the fabric softener

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Fabric softeners contain toxic ingredients that are bad for your health and the environment. EWG recommends that laundry doers just say no.

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Cleaning Products

Feinstein to fight for BPA-free formula

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Five years ago, tens of millions of baby bottles and sippy cups sold in the United States were manufactured with a petrochemical derivative called bisphenol A. Today, according to the American Chemistry Council, that number is - zero.

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BPA

Canada, San Francisco blaze forward on cell phone advisories

Thursday, October 20, 2011

As the world mourns the passing of iPhone creator Steve Jobs, San Francisco and Canada are blazing new paths to ensure that the public knows how to use cell phones safely.

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Cell Phones

The Great Food Divide

Monday, October 17, 2011

The fortunate among us need never struggle with either hunger or obesity. This morning my healthy 3-year old had yogurt, a banana and scrambled egg whites for breakfast before beginning her day. But for many in the U.S. and around the world, the story is very different.

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Healthy Eating

Dear Super Committee: What to Cut, What NOT to Cut

Monday, October 3, 2011

Lobbyists for polluting industries and opponents of environmental regulation have been tripping over one another to come up with self-serving lists of targets for the Congressional Super Committee as it labors to find ways to reduce federal spending and trim the deficit.

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Your best air freshener isn't an air freshener

Friday, September 30, 2011

A quick spritz of air freshener may seem like a simple way to kill funky odors. Unfortunately, that pleasing smell is just more indoor air pollution.

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Chemical ag's flyboys often miss the mark

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

"I came out of a sound sleep and honestly our entire house was shaking, and I said, 'What is that God-awful roar'," said Stephanie Feller, a resident of Sagewater Court in Fossil Lake Ranch (Colorado). "I thought, 'My God, we are all under attack'. " The "God-awful roar" Feller experienced came from a crop duster, not enemy aircraft, and it wasn't gunfire, but pesticides that hit her property."

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Pesticides

Environment

EWG to FDA: Sunscreen Regs a Good Step, Not Enough

Monday, September 26, 2011

Nearly thirty-three years after the federal Food and Drug Administration announcing its intention to develop sunscreen regulations, it finally finalized some of its rules this summer. And while we at the Environmental Working Group were pleased with some of the progress made, in some key areas the FDA didn't go far enough to protect public health.

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Sunscreens

Fracking Jobs? N.Y. Residents Need not Apply

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Think fracking for natural gas means jobs? Think again.

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Don't wipe out: The hidden hazards of antibacterial wipes

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Antibacterial cleaning wipes are everywhere, but are they harmless? Unfortunately, for most popular versions, that's not the case.

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Cleaning Products

Getting sick on pesticides Big Ag can't live without

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Chemical agriculture's defense of pesticides conjures up the image of the chain-smoking industry attorney Nathan Thurm slithering through a minefield of facts and figures about the causes of global warming in this classic skit from Saturday Night Live.

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Farming

Dry cleaning chemicals hang around - on your clothes

Monday, September 12, 2011

If you've ever dry cleaned your clothes (you have, right?), you've likely wondered how the "dry" part happens. And it may even have crossed your mind that it's a chemical process. Of course you'd be right.

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Salad bars surge in D.C. schools

Friday, September 9, 2011

Local bok choy and baby spinach, a mesclun mix with mandarin oranges and broccoli florets topped with Asian chicken strips. No, it's not the lunch menu at Chez Panisse, the influential organic restaurant known for serving up healthy and local cuisine. It's part of Monday's lunch menu at 27 Washington, D.C. public school cafeterias.

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Food

Healthy Eating

Keeping You in the Dark on Tap Water Contaminants

Thursday, September 8, 2011

More than 300 pollutants contaminate the water Americans drink, an EWG analysis of almost 20 million public records found.

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Water

Support a Climate Rider for EWG

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

I've signed up to ride in the five-day, 320-mile Climate Ride California 2011 in support of EWG. I have a personal goal of raising $2,700 by Tuesday, Sept. 20. Can you help me make this goal? A donation in any amount - $5 or $50 or whatever you can afford- will make a big difference.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

When it comes to drilling in the Marcellus Shale, the natural gas industry leaves no stone unturned.

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Flame Retardants: Banned, but not gone

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Even though toxic flame retardant chemicals were banned in 2006, pregnant women in California carry high levels of the hazardous substances in their blood, according to a new study by scientists at UC San Francisco's Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment.

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Fire Retardants

DOE fracking report states obvious, little else

Monday, August 15, 2011

People across the country are rightly concerned about natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing near their homes. Thanks to new technologies, the exploitation of shale gas formations has expanded rapidly and now accounts for nearly 30 percent of U.S. natural gas production.

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DOE fracking report states obvious, little else

Friday, August 12, 2011

People across the country are rightly concerned about natural gas drilling and fracturing near their homes. Thanks to new technologies, the exploitation of shale gas formations has expanded rapidly and now accounts for nearly 30 percent of U.S. gas production.

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