Research by Year

2020

The PFAS and the Furious

Food Additives State of the Science

Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Likely Discharged Near Schools in 18 States

Duke Energy’s Epic Fails: $11.6 Billion in Scrapped Projects Since 2013

The High Cost of Algae Blooms in U.S. Waters

UPDATE: Exposing Fields of Filth

EWG Tests of Hummus Find High Levels of Glyphosate Weedkiller

Nitrate Pollution of Drinking Water for More Than 20 Million Americans Is Getting Worse

Manure Overload

U.S. Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Large Federal Investment

In Minnesota’s Farm Country, Nitrate Pollution of Drinking Water is Getting Worse

PFAS Contamination of Drinking Water Far More Prevalent Than Previously Reported

EWG Study and Mapping Show Large CAFOs in Iowa Up Fivefold Since 1990

Tap Water for 500,000 Minnesotans Contaminated With Elevated Levels of Nitrate

2019

Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Detected in Drinking Water Supplies Across California

For 50 Years, Polluters Knew PFAS Chemicals Were Dangerous But Hid Risks From Public

Eruptions of Toxic Algae Plague Lakes, Threatening Drinking Water and Recreation

Nitrate in U.S. Tap Water May Cause More Than 12,500 Cancers a Year

Cover Crops: Reducing Farm Runoff While Saving Soil

EWG Proposes PFAS Standards That Fully Protect Children’s Health

Mapping the PFAS Contamination Crisis: New Data Show 610 Sites in 43 States

California Drinking Water

Iowa’s Private Wells Contaminated by Nitrate and Bacteria

Explosion of Unregulated Factory Farms

Mapping PFAS Chemical Contamination at 206 U.S. Military Sites

Organic: The Original Clean Food

Under the Radar

2018

And Manure for All

K-Beauty Trends: Serums, Essences and EWG’s Best Bets

Hormone-Disrupting Weed Killer Taints Drinking Water for Millions of Americans

America’s Nitrate Habit Is Costly and Dangerous

Breakfast With a Dose of Roundup?

EWG’s 2018 Guide to Bug Repellents

Decoding Meat and Dairy Product Labels

Supermarket Meat Still Superbugged, Federal Data Show

Report: Up to 110 Million Americans Could Have PFAS-Contaminated Drinking Water

Across U.S., Toxic Blooms Pollute Lakes

Polluted Runoff: A Broken Promise Threatens Drinking Water in the Heartland

Update: Mapping the Expanding PFAS Crisis

Case Study: Corn Belt Communities Plagued by Nitrate in Tap Water

Case Study: Iowa Cities Struggle to Keep Farm Pollution Out of Tap Water

170 Million in U.S. Drink Radioactive Tap Water. Trump Nominee Faked Data to Hide Cancer Risk.

2017

Double Dipping: How Taxpayers Subsidize Farmers Twice for Crop Losses

Picking Losers: Why Coal and Nuclear Interests Are Desperate for a Ratepayer Bailout

Less Farm Pollution, More Clean Water

One-Third of California’s High-Risk Kids Not Tested for Lead Poisoning

EWG Investigates: Mr. Pay to Spray, Michael Dourson

Hidden Carcinogen Taints Tap Water, Consumer Products Nationwide

Drinking Water and Children’s Health

Introducing EWG Standards

How Toxic Pollutants Can Harm Future, Unexposed Generations

California Proposes Safe Level for Roundup More Than 100 Times Lower Than EPA Limit

WHERE IS TRICLOSAN STILL APPROVED FOR USE?

Mapping a Contamination Crisis

‘Retired’ Sensitive Cropland: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

Organic Within Reach

N.C. Bill to Shield CAFOs’ Liability Would Curb Legal Rights for Hundreds of Thousands

Cancer-Causing Pesticide ‘Garbage’ Taints Tap Water for Millions in California

Is Federal Crop Insurance Policy Leading to Another Dust Bowl?

Growing Organic

Mapping Cover Crops on Corn and Soybeans in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, 2015-2016

Trump Plan to Gut Stream Protections Imperils Tap Water of 117 Million Americans

Many Fast Food Wrappers Still Coated in PFCs, Kin to Carcinogenic Teflon Chemical

EWG Investigates: Pruitt’s Toothless Poultry Law

EWG Investigates: Scott Pruitt and Poultry Pollution

2016

Under New Safety Law, EPA Picks First 10 Chemicals for Review

Big Market for Black Cosmetics, but Less-Hazardous Choices Limited

Exposing Fields of Filth

Toxic Chemicals May Contaminate Oil Field Wastewater Used to Grow Calif. Crops

Feeding The World

Dangerous Monsanto Chemical Remains in Thousands of Schools

'Erin Brockovich' Carcinogen in Tap Water of More than 200 Million Americans

Under New Safety Law, 20 Toxic Chemicals EPA Should Act On Now

California Policy Linked to Higher Flame Retardant Exposures

Exposing Fields of Filth

The Pollution in People

The "Farm Crisis" Myth

Off the Books II: More Secret Chemicals

Mercury in Seafood

Food Lobby Spends $101 Million in 2015 to Avert GMO Labeling

Crop Insurance Lottery

Fooling Ourselves

EWG's Dietary Guidelines

2015

Cutting the Fat

Better Biofuels Ahead

Potassium Bromate

Teflon Chemical Harmful at Smallest Doses

California’s Fracking Fluids

EWG's Dirty Dozen: Cancer Prevention Edition

Big Food Companies Spend Millions to Defeat GMO Labeling

Rethinking Carcinogens

Rethinking Carcinogens

EWG Exposes Hidden Trans Fat

BPA in Canned Food

Hidden In Plain Sight

Poisoned Legacy

Corporate spending to fight GMO labeling skyrockets

Feeding the world

States Lead the Way

Does Your Cell Phone Case Raise Your Radiation Exposure?

Iowa's Low Hanging Fruit

2014

EWG’s Dirty Dozen Guide to Food Additives

Debunking the Myth that GE Crops Reduce Soil Loss

Danger in the Air

EWG’s Consumer Guide to Seafood

The Anti-Label Lobby

Vitter Pressures EPA Inspector General

“Washout” Revisited

The Anti-Label Lobby

Five Things FDA and EPA Didn’t Tell You About Seafood Safety

2,4-D Herbicide & GMO Crops

How Much is Too Much?

Ethanol's Broken Promise

Children's Cereals

Broken Stream Banks

Nearly 500 ways to make a yoga mat sandwich

EWG’s 2014 Shopper’s Guide To Avoiding GMO Food

US Seafood Advice Flawed on Mercury, Omega-3s

2013

Cutting Waste in the Crop Insurance Program

Cell Phone Radiation Depends On Wireless Carrier

Forbes Fat Cats Collect Taxpayer-Funded Farm Subsidies

Dirty Dozen Endocrine Disruptors

All Over The Map

Exposing the Cosmetics Cover-up

BB and CC Creams

Five Reasons to Skip Bottled Water

Hallmarks of Cancer

EWG's Guide to Safer Cell Phone Use

Going, Going, Gone!

Poisons in the Pipeline

The Downfall of Direct Payments

Taxpayers, Crop Insurance, and the Drought of 2012

EWG’s UPDATED Water Filter Buying Guide

Water Treatment Contaminants:

2012

Farming in California

Cuomo Aide’s Oil/Gas Investments Questioned in N.Y. Fracking Debate

Five things you should know about GMOs

Impact of Scaling Back

Healthy Food Gets Short Shrift

Troubled Waters

USGS: Some Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmade”

The Revenue Insurance Boondoggle

Giving It Away Free

California Regulators

Federal Scientists Warn NY of Fracking Risks

Ethanol Report 2012

Conservation Compliance

EWG's Bottled Water Scorecard, 2011

2011

Top 10 Stories of 2011

Drilling Doublespeak

Sugar in Children's Cereals

Drilling Doublespeak: Slideshow

Congress Must Finally Put an End to Direct Payments

Chemical Makers Inform Investors, Not The Public

Cracks in the Facade

Gas Drilling and Fracking

What Scientists Say About Vitamin A in Sunscreen

EWG Updates Sunscreen Guide | 50+ New Products

2004 Industry Study Found Chrome-6 Nationwide

Identifying Congress Members Who Get Farm Subsidies

Hot Spots in the Emerging Global Food Crisis

2010

Chromium-6 in U.S. Tap Water

Bay out of Balance

Will the Real Ethanol Beneficiaries Please Stand Up?

Safer Cleaning Supplies for Your Home

U.S. Sunscreens Get Flunking Grade for UVA Protection

Throwing Good Money at Bad Land

FCC downplays cell phone radiation risks

New Study Confirms BPA in Receipts

BPA Coats Cash Register Receipts

Kellogg's Cereal Recall:

Clearcut Disaster

Farm Subsidies in California:

Drilling Around the Law

2009

Pollution in Minority Newborns

Greener School Cleaning Supplies

Crying Wolf on Climate Change

California’s Climate Change Policy Leaves Agriculture in the Dust

Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay

EWG's Report on Cell Phone Radiation

Dog Food Comparison Shows High Fluoride Levels

Is Your Bottled Water Worth It?

Seizing a Watershed Moment

Higher Ethanol Blends May Harm Health and Engines

Pollution in 5 Extraordinary Women

CDC Scientists Find Rocket Fuel Chemical In Infant Formula

Anniston, Alabama

Free Pass for Oil and Gas

Toxic Chemicals in Kids' Bath Products

On The Hook: Commercial Fishing Reaps Billions

America Needs a True Renewable Energy Policy

Bush Administration Moved to Okay Teflon Pollution

Ethanol’s Federal Subsidy Grab Leaves Little For Solar, Wind And Geothermal Energy

2008

Shopper's Guide to Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

FDA's Midnight Mischief Heightens Mercury Risk to Pregnant Women, Infants

Independent Science Panel Rebukes FDA on Toxic Plastic

Bush Ignores Law Protecting Grand Canyon as Uranium Mining Claims Soar

Tips to avoid BPA exposure

Bottled Water Quality Investigation

EWG's Back-To-School Guide

EWG’s Healthy Home Tips for Parents

Guide to Baby-Safe Bottles & Formula

Teen Girls' Body Burden of Hormone-Altering Cosmetics Chemicals

State by State EQIP Cuts

What the Chemical Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill’s Passage

Fire Retardants in Toddlers and Their Mothers

The Unintended Environmental Impacts of the Renewable Fuels Standard

Pesticide in Soap, Toothpaste and Breast Milk - Is It Kid-Safe?

Biofuels and Bad Weather

Colorado's Chemical Injection

Credibility Gap: Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging

Timeline: BPA from Invention to Phase-Out

Sundown on the Sagebrush Rebellion

CDC: Americans Carry Body Burden of Toxic Sunscreen Chemical

EPA Axes Panel Chair at Request of Chemical Industry Lobbyists

Asbestos Still A Public Health Tragedy; Congress Taking Action

Grand Canyon Threatened by Approval of Uranium Mining Activities

FDA Food Testing Shows Widespread Rocket Fuel Contamination of Commonly Consumed Foods and Beverages

NIH to Review Flawed Report on Impacts of BPA Exposure

2007

Colorado’s Pristine Roan Plateau Threatened by Drilling Surge

EWG's Guide to Infant Formula and Baby Bottles

Science Policy Memo Detailing EWG Findings on C8

EWG Assessment of EPA Draft Human Health Risk Assessment for the Teflon Chemical PFOA

Children Overexposed to Rocket Fuel Chemical

Washington Post Wrong

A Disaster Waiting To Happen…Forever

Trouble Downstream

Federal Fluoride Cap Too High

Toxic Plastics Chemical in Infant Formula

Chlorine Pollutants High in DC Tap Water

Stolen Inventory

New study from CDC and Boston University shows babies getting unsafe dose of perchlorate

Bisphenol A - Toxic Plastics Chemical in Canned Food

Scented Secrets

2006

After Two Decades of Agricultural Disaster Aid A Chronic Dependency Takes Root

Real MPG - Putting the Truth in Your Tank

Across Generations

Gas Gouge Calculator

Stolen Inventory (California)

Dead in the Water

Stolen Inventory (National)

2005

Chrome-Plated Fraud

Gibbons' Fixes Fall Short

Dirt Cheap: America's Lands in Speculators' Hands

Soaking Uncle Sam

Stuck in the Sand

Body Burden: The Pollution in Newborns

Asbestos Hotspots

Trouble in The Air

Like Oil and Water

A Slow Death in Texas

Taking from the Taxpayers

DuPont Study Finds Link Between Teflon Contaminant and Elevated Cholesterol

2004

California Water Subsidies

Still Above The Law

Obstruction of Justice

Rocket Fuel in Cows' Milk - Perchlorate

PBDEs - Fire Retardants in Dust

Lead Astray in Ohio

Asbestos: Think Again

Public Land Policy Alert: Utah

2003

MTBE In Drinking Water

PCBs in Farmed Salmon

Monsanto in Alabama

DuPont workers smoke Teflon-laced cigarettes in company experiments

Canaries in the Kitchen

PFCs: Global Contaminants

SUVs - Suddenly Upside-down Vehicles

Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water

2002

DuPont Hid Teflon Pollution For Decades

Glacier Vended Water and Contaminants in California

Chemicals linked to birth defects can stay in cosmetics, says Cosmetic Industry safety panel

Science Review Reveals West Va. Agency Policy Contradicted by Fed, Industry Research

MTBE With Knowledge

All Hands on Deck

Particle Civics

Anniston, Alabama: In-Depth

2001

The Poisonwood Rivals

Consider the Source

Tampering With Truth

Another Emergency Bail Out for Agriculture

Driving Under the Influence

Poisoned Playgrounds

Poisonous Pastime

Lead Pollution at Outdoor Firing Ranges

Every Breath You Take

2000

The Facts About Diazinon

Green Energy Guide

Give Me a Fake: Stossel Under Fire

Uncontrolled Lusts

A Few Bad Apples...

Clean Water Report Card

Clean Water Report Card for California

Freedom to Farm in Iowa

Judicial Integrity

1999

Attack of the Killer Weeds

Statement on Phase-out of Cyanazine

Power Plants Caught Cheating

Mercury Falling

George W. Bush's Anti-Environmental Advisors

Potholes and Politics

Polluter Privilege

Do As We Say, Not As We Do

Above the Law in California

Into the Mouths of Babes

From Bureaucrats to Fat Cats

Reading, Writing and Risk

Ban Methyl Parathion Now

How 'Bout Them Apples

What You Don't Know Could Hurt You

1998

Full Disclosure

The English Patients

Greening Hospitals

Same as it Ever Was

Dumping Sewage Sludge On Organic Farms?

Factory Farming

Overexposed || Organophosphate Insecticides in Children's Food

1997

Catching the Limit

Tests Find Methyl Bromide Drifting Into Mobile Home Park

New Clean Air Standards are No Sweat in Florida

Tough To Swallow

Methyl Bromide Poisoning

Methyl Bromide in Castroville, CA

The Other Clean Air Rule

Particle Pollution and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in the United States

California Study Admits Methyl Bromide Safety Standard Inadequate

Clearing The Air

People of Color in California Breathe the Most Heavily Polluted Air

100,000 California Kids Breathe Unhealthy Air at School

Smokestacks and Smokescreens

The Highway Beautification Act

Take More Money and Run

Something's in the Air

The Balanced Budget Amendment

Particulate Air Pollution

1996

Dishonorable Discharge

The Nation's New Pesticide Law

Toxic Farm Fumigants Drifting Into California Neighborhoods

Comments on the Proposed Reissuance of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Nationwide Permits

"Congress, We Have A Problem"

Swamped With Cash

Heavy Methyl Bromide Use Near California Schools

Freedom to Farm

1995

Setting the Record Straight

The Cash Croppers: Farm Subsidies 1985-1994

Weed Killers By The Glass

Background Information on Cyanazine

Pesticides in Baby Food

Pesticide Industry Propaganda: The Real Story

Much Ado About Nothing

Forbidden Fruit | Illegal Pesticides in the US Food Supply