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Johnson & Johnson Takes a Big Step in the Right Direction
This week marked a huge victory for consumers. Johnson & Johnson, global manufacturer of such well known health and personal care products as Johnson's Baby Shampoo, unveiled plans to reformulate many...
We've Been Slimed
Last month, the New York Times published a story about my efforts when I was pregnant to rid my home of toxic chemicals. The story featured a photo of my 18-month-old daughter and recounted how I...
Good, Bad and Truly Awful: Top Environmental Stories of 2011
People are messy. So is nature. And what people do when nature unleashes its fury often makes things worse. The staff at Environmental Working Group took a look at the major environmental news stories...
Little Chocolate Donuts
Thirty-four years ago, Saturday Night Live's ad parody, Little Chocolate Donuts, seemed like absurdist comedy. But the iconic John Belushi bit – co-written by current Minnesota Senator Al Franken – is...
Stand Up for REAL Food - Twinkies Aren't Breakfast
Of course you don't serve your kids Twinkies or Chips Ahoy! cookies for breakfast. But many of us are serving our kids just as much - or more - sugar every day in the good ol' American cereal bowl.
Food Companies Take a Page from Tobacco Industry Playbook
Amid an epidemic of childhood obesity, food companies are taking lessons from the tobacco industry on how to target children with advertisements for unhealthy products. The Sensible Food Policy...
Big Food Fights to Keep Kids Fat
Childhood obesity rates in the U.S. are at an all-time high, while the quality of our children's food has reached a new low.
U.S. Pediatricians to Congress: Reform Chemical Policy Now
U.S. pediatricians are putting their considerable muscle behind the calls for Congress to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a failed federal law that has exposed millions of children...
EWG's BPA Petition Delivered to Maine Governor
Maine just became the ninth state to ban the use of bisphenol A in baby products.
Toxic trade mission: US pitched China on toxic medical products
In 2007, two members of Congress traveling on a tax-funded junket scolded a Chinese government official over tainted Chinese-made products, including lead-tainted children's toys, being exported to...
Labor camps? Fine. But BPA crosses the line.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has never taken steps to get BPA out of children's products, and just last fall the U.S. Senate dropped legislation to restrict BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups...
Don't Let Toxic Toys Grinch Your Holiday!
There may be 12 days of Christmas and eight days of Hannukah, but EWG has boiled the shopping hullabaloo down to the number five: five ways to detox your holiday shopping. And, no, our list does not...
European Union Stands Up for Infants
Just a week after a few members of Congress buckled to chemical industry interests and blocked language that would have banned BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups, the European Union is showing the...
Head back to school with EWG's green shopping tips
Every year around this time, the school supply list shows up in our mailbox. You know the one, where teachers tell you exactly what to bring on the first day to fill the new classroom with the...
A (video) Green Guide to Pregnancy
When I was pregnant with my second child, I read Sandra Steingraber's book, Having Faith, a haunting account of the effects of toxic chemicals on babies in utero, written while she was pregnant...
Put toxics on Congress' "to-do" list
Ever wonder if you can really, truly make a difference in an effort for national policy reform? I mean, it's a big country, right? Do policy makers really care that you fervently believe that...
US Senate Investigates Chemicals in People
In the past few weeks, EWG staff testified five times to support strong chemical policies at the state and federal levels: in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and the US...
Rubber Ducky: You're so not the one
The first question we usually get asked about our book, Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things, is: "What's up with the unusual title? A rubber duck? Dangerous?"
An Important Video About 10 Important Americans
EWG President Ken Cook tells the story of toxics in a mere 22 minutes - 22 very worthwhile minutes, that is. See it for yourself.
Feeding Baby Green: Dr. Greene tells us how - and why
My husband hates parenting books. Absolutely hates them. Which is a good thing (there. are. so. many.) and a bad thing (sometimes you just gotta get an expert outside opinion).
