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California Baby® Creates New Plant-Based Preservative

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

California Baby ® , a global skincare leader, is advancing the marketplace with a plant-based solution for preservatives in personal care products.

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Consumer Products

Children’s Products

FDA Bans Lead-Based Neurotoxin from Consumer Hair Dyes

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

The Food and Drug Administration will ban the use of toxic lead acetate in consumer hair dyes such as Grecian Formula, the agency announced today. Lead acetate is the active ingredient that slowly darkens gray hair when used every few days, and can increase the level of lead in users’ bodies.

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Consumer Products

Roundup for Breakfast, Part 2: In New Tests, Weed Killer Found in All Kids’ Cereals Sampled

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

A second round of tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group found the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer in every sample of popular oat-based cereal and other oat-based food marketed to children.

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Chemicals in Food

Asbestos Imports Surge as Trump White House Moves to Keep Deadly Carcinogen Legal

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Asbestos imports to the U.S. soared by nearly 2,000 percent between July and August, according to federal import data analyzed by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and Environmental Working Group.

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Consumer Products

Massive Study Finds Eating Organic Slashes Cancer Risks

Monday, October 22, 2018

Eating organic foods free from pesticides is strongly correlated with a dramatic reduction in the risk of cancer, according to a groundbreaking study published today in an American Medical Association journal.

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Children's Health

Local & Sustainable

Trump White House Pushes to Let Minors Spray Brain-Damaging Pesticides on Farms

Thursday, October 18, 2018

The White House’s just-released list of planned environmental and public health rollbacks includes letting high-school-age kids spray brain-damaging pesticides on commercial farms.

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Children's Health

Trump’s Regulatory Rollback Agenda Leaves Families and Workers Exposed to Toxic Chemicals

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

The Trump administration’s just-released regulatory roadmap leaves no stone unturned when it comes to rolling back safeguards designed to protect children, families and workers from exposure to dangerous chemicals.

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Children's Health

White House Drops Scheme to Bail Out Coal, Nukes

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The White House has reportedly shelved a plan by Energy Secretary Rick Perry to prop up the failing coal and nuclear industries by making operators of regional electric grids buy power from aging coal and nuclear plants.

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Senate Approves Trump Climate Skeptic To Run Environmental Enforcement at Justice Dept.

Thursday, October 11, 2018

A climate change skeptic who once labeled President Obama’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a communist plot is now the nation’s top environmental enforcement official.

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EPA Watchdog Investigating Potential Enforcement Failure of Critical Pollution Monitoring Program

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

The Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog is launching an investigation over whether the agency has failed to enforce a critical program that tracks toxic spills into the environment.

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FDA Bans 7 Cancer-Causing Food Additives Found in Popular Foods

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Under pressure from EWG and other environmental and public health groups, the Food and Drug Administration has banned seven substances used in artificial flavors that have been linked to cancer in animals.

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Map: Florence Drenched Thousands of North Carolina CAFOs and Animal Waste Pits

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Hurricane Florence’s torrential rains pelted areas of North Carolina that are home to more than 1,500 industrial animal operations with more than 1,000 nearby animal waste storage cesspools. These operations have the potential to annually produce as much as four billion gallons of wet swine waste and 400,000 tons of dry poultry waste, according to an exclusive analysis by EWG and Waterkeeper Alliance.

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Congress Passes Measure To Dramatically Restrict Major Source of PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Congress passed legislation Wednesday that will give commercial airports the option to switch to firefighting foams that do not include the highly toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS.

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Nonstick Chemicals

White House Strikes Discussion of Impacts of Climate Change on Children’s Health from Draft EPA Rule

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

The White House removed key language documenting the heightened risks climate change presents to children from a draft EPA proposal to repeal a rule to reduce heat-trapping chemicals leaking into the atmosphere, according to new documents first reported by E&E News .

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Children's Health

FDA Glyphosate Testing Conspicuously Skips Oats, Wheat Products

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

The Food and Drug Administration failed to include oats and wheat products in its glyphosate testing program, leaving Americans largely in the dark about their exposure through food to the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer.

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Children's Health

Chemicals in Food

After Axing Key Science Office, Trump Puts Ex-Koch Exec in Charge of Research at EPA

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

The Trump administration has tapped a longtime chemical and fossil fuel industry executive, who most recently worked for the ultraconservative Koch brothers, to head the scientific research arm of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Children's Health

EWG Report: Small Rural Communities Bear Costly Burden of Nitrate Pollution of Tap Water

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Tap water across the nation is contaminated with an agricultural pollutant linked to cancer, and the problem is worst in small communities that can least afford to fix it, according to a new EWG analysis.

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Trump’s EPA Plans to Gut Rules That Have Sharply Cut Mercury Pollution

Monday, October 1, 2018

In yet another rollback of public health protections, the Trump administration is preparing to gut a rule that has dramatically cut emissions of mercury, a toxic chemical known to harm the nervous systems of children and fetuses.

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Even the Trump Administration Predicts Catastrophic Rise in Global Temperatures by 2100 – and Says It’s Useless to Try to Stop It

Friday, September 28, 2018

The Trump administration, led by a president who called climate change a hoax and is gutting efforts to cut carbon emissions, predicts global temperatures will rise catastrophically by the end of the century – and that there’s no use trying to stop it.

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Food Companies, EWG Petition EPA for Stringent Limits on Glyphosate in Oats

Thursday, September 27, 2018

The Environmental Working Group, joined by food and nutrition companies including MegaFood, Ben & Jerry’s, Stonyfield Farm, MOM’s Organic Market, Nature’s Path, One Degree Organic Foods, National Co+op Grocers and Happy Family Organics, today petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to sharply limit glyphosate residues allowed on oats and prohibit the pesticide’s use as a pre-harvest drying agent.

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Children's Health

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