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EWG News Roundup (2/8): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (8/2): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG news roundup (7/16): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Remember when we told you that some farmers were illegally spraying the herbicide dicamba on Monsanto's new GMO crops? Well, the situation is getting worse.

Before he became President Trump's nominee to oversee the safety of pesticides sprayed on our food, Michael Dourson sought to weaken pesticide safety standards for Monsanto and Dow.

EWG News Roundup (7/26): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Mired in multiple scandals of his own making, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt attempted to shift the blame to “toxic” Washington yesterday. Photo courtesy of AP Photos

EWG News Roundup (3/19): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG news roundup (6/4): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (9/6): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (2/14): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Nearly 70 percent of the fresh produce sold in the U.S. contains residues of potentially harmful chemical pesticides, according to the Environmental Working Group's 2020 Dirty Dozen™. Yet the dirtiest...

Americans want to know what's in their food and how it's grown.

A trove of internal documents obtained and published by The New Lede show Swiss chemical giant Syngenta knew in the 1960s and 1970s that the widely used weedkiller paraquat could build up in human...

Pesticide makers could undermine state and local governments’ right to adopt rules that protect communities from exposure to toxic crop chemicals, if some members of Congress get their way. They’re...

EWG News Roundup (5/3): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

When choosing the right school for their children, many parents ask about class sizes, the community, learning objectives and schedules.

The Trump administration announced in a document posted Thursday that it plans to weaken environmental safeguards for atrazine, a weedkilling pesticide linked to birth defects and cancer in humans.

The landmark Food Quality Protection Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to protect children's health by applying an extra margin of safety to legal limits for pesticides in food. But an...

Another 12 months is just about in the books. It was full of moments that impacted health and the environment in a variety of ways. From clean water to Kavanaugh, from Pruitt to “poop lagoons,” EWG...

EWG News Roundup (1/18): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG news roundup (1/7): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (2/28): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

As the New York Times reported today, federal lawmakers may be about to give Monsanto a multi billion-dollar break. H.R. 2576, The TSCA Modernization Act, is a bill designed to update our nation's...