The latest from EWG’s staff of experts

Last month, after a year-long investigation, former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and eight other officials were charged for their roles in the Flint water crisis – the environmental disaster that shocked the nation seven years ago. All nine defendants pleaded not guilty to 42 charges, including willful neglect of duty, manslaughter, extortion, perjury and obstruction of justice.

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Children's Health

Toxics

Factory Farms

Water

Tap Water

Nearly all of the billions of dollars in federal farm bailouts to offset the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic went to white farmers, newly revealed Department of Agriculture data show.

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Farming

Subsidies

Trump’s Farmer Bailout

In 2019, in the absence of enforceable federal limits, New Hampshire became one of the first states to set its own drinking water standards for the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.

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Toxics

PFAS Chemicals

Water

Tap Water

To protect the health of people, communities and the environment, the toxic fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS should not be regulated one by one but as a class, more than a dozen scientists, including this author, argue in an article published today in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters.

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Toxics

PFAS Chemicals

Water

Tap Water

EWG News Roundup (1/29): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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Children's Health

Midwest

Toxics

Consumer Products

Farming

Food

Water

The administration of President Joe Biden has a mountain of work to do to reverse the damage done by the Trump administration. It should begin by taking swift action to ban and restrict the toxic pesticides the Trump administration allowed in agriculture and on food.

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Children's Health

Toxics

Pesticides

Farming

EWG News Roundup (1/15): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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Children's Health

Toxics

Consumer Products

Farming

Food

Water

The soda industry has long been recognized as a major contributor to the obesity epidemic. In an attempt to change the narrative, Big Soda is pushing diet drinks, spending $296 million on marketing in 2018 alone. But artificial sweeteners might not be the health boon the industry is hoping for, according to a new study by Belgian researchers.

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Children's Health

Toxics

Food

Healthy Eating

Are you looking to make a clean start to 2021? If you’re ready to start living cleaner and healthier, EWG is here to help. Take a look at some of our top resolutions, with resources to help you stick with them.

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Children's Health

Toxics

Consumer Products

Farming

Food

Water