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Don’t Want to Eat Pruitt’s Pesticide? Here’s What to Avoid

Last week Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt stuck to his long-standing practice of ignoring science, disregarding data that shows the pesticide chlorpyrifos could harm kids'...
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture

Cities Oppose House Scheme To Block Local Pesticide Controls

Cities across the nation are fighting a provision in the House of Representatives' version of the federal farm bill that would block cities, counties and school districts from restricting the use of...
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

U.S. Court Orders Trump EPA to Decide Fate of Brain-Damaging Pesticide

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today gave Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler 90 days to decide whether his agency will ban the use of the brain-damaging pesticide...

Toxic Chemicals
Food
Water

Groups Demand Immediate Halt to Food Uses of Fluoride-Based Pesticide

EWG, Fluoride Action Network and Beyond Pesticides demand immediate suspension of all uses of fluoride-based pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride.
Food & Water
Food
Water
Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Meat and Dairy Alternatives
Farm Pollution
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Regional Issues
California

Pesticide peril: Toxic threats to farmworkers and families in Ventura County

A toxic threat is facing many parts of California’s Ventura County, where everyone from farmworkers to families could be at risk from increased exposure to harmful pesticides.
Ventura county farm
Food & Water
Food
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate
Pesticides

FDA tests find U.S. food supply awash in pesticide residues

More than 50 percent of thousands of domestic and imported foods tested by the Food and Drug Administration had detectable levels of at least one pesticide, according to results the agency released...
2,4-D
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Food

Dow Cherry-Picks its Evidence to Defend New Toxic Pesticide

Dow AgroSciences, which is seeking federal approval to sell a new herbicide mixture, last week (July 3) attacked an EWG analysis pointing out that thousands of school children could be exposed to...

Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

OUT NOW: EWG’s 2021 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™

Collard and mustard greens join kale among the most pesticide-contaminated fresh produce on the Environmental Working Group's 2021 Dirty Dozen™ list. For the first time, bell peppers and hot peppers...

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

Leading Scientists Rely on and Back EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides

Chensheng (Alex) Lu, Associate Professor of Environmental Exposure Biology at Harvard School of Public Health has advised parents and caregivers to use the Shopper's Guide to "keep nutritional foods...
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Farm Workers
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

House Farm Bill Increases Pesticide Risks to Children, Farmworkers

The House farm bill includes several proposals that would roll back key pesticide protections, putting children, farmworkers, communities and even endangered species at risk.

Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture

Pruitt’s Home State Leads Nation in Pesticide Illnesses and Deaths

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency has a big problem in his home state of Oklahoma – pesticides.
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

Duke Study Confirms Toxicity of Widely Used Pesticide Ingredient

In an innovative study, researchers at the Duke University School of Medicine have developed a laboratory screening system for detecting neurotoxic chemicals and successfully tested it on more than 1...

Chemical Policy
Pesticides
Triclosan
Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies

EWG presses regulators to investigate use of pesticide in liquid soap

Download PDF version. Office of Pesticide Programs Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20460-0001 Regarding: EPA’s Decision to Support Re-registration of Triclosan...

Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture

EWG Urges EPA to Ban Unnecessary Uses of Bee-Killing Pesticides

EWG and 122,210 supporters write to EPA’s pesticide office urging it to ban all unnecessary uses of neonicotinoid insecticides as it completes its assessment of their ecological effects. Canada and...

Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

Biden EPA moves closer to final ban of brain-damaging pesticide

The Environmental Protection Agency today announced it is taking several final steps required to officially ban any further agricultural uses of the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, rejecting all...
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Farm Workers
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

In Stunning Reversal, EPA Stops Plan to Let Minors Handle Dangerous Pesticides

The Trump administration will no longer pursue plans allowing farm operators to let minors spray toxic pesticides on crops.

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

Europe Says ‘No Safe Level’ of Brain-Damaging Pesticide Trump EPA Refused To Ban

European food safety regulators have found there is no safe level of exposure for a brain-damaging pesticide President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency recently refused to ban.

Food & Water
Water
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Pollution
Food & Farm Workers
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

EWG: Schools near pesticide spray zones could lose health protections

Thousands of schools are located near farms across the U.S. where pesticide may be sprayed, , an EWG analysis finds. But some members of Congress want to block state and local safeguards that protect...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Pesticides
Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies

EPA Proposes Roll-back of Food Safety Standards at Request of Pesticide Manufacturer

Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P) Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. Washington, DC 20460-0001 October 20, 2008 Regarding: Docket EPA-HQ-OPP...

Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

Study: Eating Foods with Fewer Pesticides Boosts Women’s Chances to Conceive

Women seeking to get pregnant could significantly improve their chances by eating conventional fruits and vegetables with fewer pesticide residues, or eating organic produce, according to a new study...

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture

American Oversight and EWG Demand Release of Pruitt Communications with Pesticide Industry

American Oversight and the Environmental Working Group today launched a joint investigation into the March 29 decision by the Environmental Protection Agency not to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos.

Research

Pesticides still found in baby food, but biggest toxic threats eliminated

Your baby’s food may contain potentially harmful pesticides – but the Environmental Working Group’s decades of fighting to protect children’s health have helped eliminate the most toxic threats from these products.
Child being fed baby food
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Pollution
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

Yet another pollinator, the monarch butterfly, is being threatened by toxic pesticides

The Eastern migratory monarch, the pretty orange and black butterfly that migrates through your garden come springtime and helps pollinate your flowers, is a welcome sight. But it’s facing serious...
Monarch Butterfly
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Farm Workers
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Regional Issues
California

To Protect Young Farmworkers, Calif. Rejects EPA Rollback of Pesticide Policy

Last week, the federal Environmental Protection Agency took steps that could lead to the repeal of health-protective safeguards designed to prevent teenage farmworkers from handling toxic pesticides...