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Are D.C. residents being scammed on water quality?
D.C.'s Water and Sewer Authority put out a warning this month that unsolicited tap water testing kits were being left at the doors of residents in at least one neighborhood. Those who filled the...
Ask EWG: Arsenic on my new house's deck?
Question: My husband and I are thinking of buying this great old house with a big back deck, but I remember reading something about how wood used on decks can be dangerous. We've got a two year old...
Outside the Box: Payments or principles?
Every day people decide whether to adhere to or stray from their principles, or whether to commit to or hedge on their ideas. Unfortunately, money often forces people to compromise on both. This weekâ...
'If you love your child, move'
Where's the worst air in America? Los Angeles, with its freeways gridlocked with smog-spewing cars? Houston, where petrochemical plants pump out their poisons 24 hours a day?
Stewardship for all Creation
What will it take to get presidential candidates to commit to stopping human-caused global warming?
LA water company takes 5 minutes for fluoride
On Aug. 20, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which supplies drinking water to Los Angeles, San Diego and four other counties, will be briefed on the health risks of water...
Maybe you should skip the seafood special...
Although the revelation that over 1 million pounds of suspect seafood from China was allowed into the country is woefully late, better late than never.
Beach closings at all-time high in 2006
Last summer I lived just a mile from a beach -- a real beach, with an ocean and everything. Having grown up several hundred miles from the Atlantic in a town where the only "beach" was a long patch of...
Outside the Box: Going for gold
We are one summer away from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the host country is trying to win the gold by going green. This week's Outside the Box hurdles organic pork, strict air quality...
Big-box muscles push for greener packaging
When a retailer with $60 billion in annual sales says jump, manufacturers ask how high, and in this case that's great news for the environment.
Saturday Morning Multimedia: Toilet environmentalism
Plenty of companies make water-efficient toilets these days, but replacing your old model with a newer one is an expensive endeavor -- and if you live in an apartment building, it's pretty much...
Problem toys: A personal perspective
This post from one of the Urban Mamas bloggers really drove home the reality of the Mattel recall for me. I don't have babies of my own (yet -- don't worry, Mom, I'll get there!), so while I was busy...
Toxic children's toys signal time for reform
In what is only the nation's second largest toy recall this year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall of more than one million lead-painted toys.
EPA sued over potentially dangerous pesticide
When a CDC website describes the possible medical effect of a pesticide like this ...may produce a variety of effects on the nervous system including headaches, blurred vision, watering of the eyes...
Outside The Box: Head for the hills!
Ecosystems are fragile like a house of cards: add the wrong component in the wrong place and it can come tumbling down. Worlds are at war as this week's OTB resembles a third rate science fiction...
Ask EWG: Is hydroponic produce organic?
This is our first Ask EWG video! We're pretty excited about it, but as a small nonprofit that focuses on research we're just getting the hang of this YouTube thing. If you've got any comments...
Need health insurance? Here's an idea...
Science has been demonstrating recently that there are links between increasing rates of chronic diseases in the US and environmental exposures. If you are lucky, you have health insurance that will...
Millions of children die annually due to environmental hazards
In the poorest parts of the world, one in five children will not live longer than their fifth birthday and this is mainly because of environment-related diseases, according to the World Health...
Saturday Morning Multimedia: EWG on TreeHugger Radio
This week's edition of TreeHugger Radio featured an interview with EWG Analyst Kristan Markey, who discussed our report on sunscreen safety and efficacy. You can listen to the episode or go to...