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What are parabens?
Parabens are a group of chemicals that preserve our personal care products. But their extensive use in these everyday items puts people at repeated risk of exposure.
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Corn Belt farmers could dramatically reduce nitrous oxide emissions with a handful of conservation practices
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What is fragrance?
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Study: Exposure to toxic ‘forever chemicals’ during pregnancy increases odds of health harms
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What are phthalates?
As you start your day, phthalates have joined your morning rituals. Your first dose happens the moment you pull back your plastic shower curtain and then lather up with shampoo and soap. You’re...
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What’s in your beach bag? Top-rated sunscreens and skin products this summer
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Hard to swallow: Aspartame risk highlights FDA chemical review loopholes
Consumers digesting the news that aspartame may be linked to cancer will probably develop heartburn once they learn about loopholes in the Food and Drug Administration’s food chemical safety system.
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Increasing price guarantees primarily benefits Southern states, analysis shows
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The Conservation Reserve Program is failing. Congress should fix it.
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Small size, big problems: NuScale’s troublesome small modular nuclear reactor plan
Despite its small size, NuScale has outsize cost and safety problems.
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Bad chemistry: FDA’s broken chemical review system
For decades, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed chemical companies to decide whether most food chemicals are safe. EWG recently found 99 percent of the food chemicals that have entered the...
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Save your vacation with these best “bang for your buck” sunscreens
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California bill to ban food chemicals is a win for environmental justice
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Brain-eating bacteria aren’t as threatening as toxic algae blooms
As summer heats up, news of fatalities from brain-eating amoeba seems to be everywhere – and people planning to spend time in and near local rivers and lakes might be concerned about contracting the...
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Sidestep harmful chemicals when using powdered mixes for summer sweet treats
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Congress shouldn’t create a polluter holiday for ‘forever chemicals’
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Funding for climate-smart agriculture critical to tackling the climate emergency
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Something for Father’s Day: 18 gift ideas from EWG VERIFIED®
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Advocacy groups call on the FDA to address radiation exposures from electronic products
The Food and Drug Administration is failing its duty to protect the public from unnecessary exposure to harmful radiation from smartphones and other electronic products, says an advocacy group...
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The New Lede exposes Syngenta’s efforts to conceal weedkiller link to Parkinson’s disease
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