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Reproductive Health
Toxic Chemicals

Across Generations: The Chemical Pollution Mothers & Daughters Share and Inherit

The unique bond between a mother and daughter starts in the womb and lasts a lifetime. This Mother's Day, lab tests of mothers and their daughters show that they share another, unwanted bond: a common...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Dioxin
Food & Water
Food
Food & Water

EWG Urges EPA to Finalize Dioxin Toxicity Assessment

EWG research found that the amount of dioxin a nursing infant ingests daily is up to 77 times higher than the level EPA has proposed to protect the endocrine and immune systems. The fact that both...
Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics

New Cosmetics Framework Provides a Path Forward

Moving to address a gaping void in the nation's system of consumer protections, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) today (April 16) filed a bill – the “Personal Care...

Food & Water
Food

Does the DARK Act Block Non-GMO Claims?

Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) doesn't seem to understand his own anti-GMO labeling bill. During a hearing on a new version of H.R. 1599, Pompeo argued that his bill – which critics have called the DARK...
Children’s Health
Food & Water
Food

Kraft-Heinz Rejects Effort To Get Phthalates Out of Mac and Cheese

Food corporation Kraft-Heinz just sent a clear message to parents: Your worries about phthalate contamination in our food chain isn't our problem.

EPA Sets an Ominous Precedent

October 15, 2004 Michael Leavitt EPA Administrator Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Dear Administrator Leavitt: Environmental Working Group is deeply troubled to...
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

You could (almost) eat this furniture

When I shop for furniture, I usually think of what NOT to get - no sprayed-on stain protection, no flame retardants, no unsustainable wood, and the list goes on.
Chemical Policy
Household & Consumer Products

Daniel Goleman: Access to info will make all the difference

Well-known author and psychologist Daniel Goleman suggests that if we consumers have more easily-accessible information about the products we buy, we'll be better prepared to make choices that...

EWG news roundup (9/24): Key PFAS provisions included in Department of Defense spending bill, coalition calls for Toyota to drop opposition to Biden EV plan and more

EWG news roundup (9/24): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG weekly news roundup

EWG News Roundup (7/30): CAFOs Run Amok in North Carolina, Senate Republican COVID-19 Stimulus Lets Down Farm Workers and More

EWG News Roundup (7/30): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Conservation

Opposition via the Internet

On June 17, the Corps formally proposed to extend some wetlands permits for 5 years, and to add several new permits with the potential for significant environmental damage. One of the new permits...
Midwest
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG Applauds Farm Bill Drinking Water Reforms

Scott Faber, senior vice president of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group, issued the following statement today on Congress' final farm bill.

Food & Water
Food
Toxic Chemicals

EWG applauds food chemical safety review bill

Today, the Environmental Working Group applauded new legislation that would require the Food and Drug Administration to meaningfully review the safety of food chemicals.
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics

Who Will Support Real Cosmetics Reform?

In coming weeks, members of Congress will again introduce bipartisan bills to ensure that the chemicals used in cosmetics and other everyday personal care products are safe
Farm Subsidies

EWG Investigation Finds Controversial 1996 Farm Law Was Subsidy Boon for Largest Farms

Taxpayers may not realize it, but the billions they spend on subsidies to save family farms may be hastening their demise.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

California Air Resources Board Must Consider Impact of Agriculture

The Environmental Working Group's (EWG) West Coast office has written the California Air Resources Board pointing out deficiencies in its Climate Change Proposed Scoping Plan with respect to...
Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Hard to swallow: Aspartame risk highlights FDA chemical review loopholes

Consumers digesting the news that aspartame may be linked to cancer will probably develop heartburn once they learn about loopholes in the Food and Drug Administration’s food chemical safety system.

Soda fountain
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Household & Consumer Products
Farming & Agriculture

EPA Seeks Public Comment on Use of Monsanto’s Weedkiller, Glyphosate on Oats Used in Foods Marketed to Kids

The Environmental Protection Agency is formally requesting feedback on a petition submitted by EWG and food companies seeking to significantly limit the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in...

Three more things you can do to help the planet

Somehow, nearly 20 years after the publication of 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth, the fact that our everyday decisions can have an impact on the future of the planet is still news. It's...
Midwest
Midwest
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Many Farmers Seeking Conservation Help Get Turned Away

Two out of every five farmers who seek assistance in reducing water pollution from their fields or the amount of pesticides and antibiotics they use are being turned away because USDA's Natural...
Food & Water
Water
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Pollution
Toxic Chemicals

Supreme Court hobbles EPA’s ability to regulate power plant emissions, sets precedent to cripple agency’s future

A ruling today by the U.S. Supreme Court will hamstring the federal government’s ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that is necessary to tackle the existential threat of the...
US Supreme Court building
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture

EWG: Verdict in Roundup Trial Latest Blow to Bayer-Monsanto’s Claims Glyphosate Doesn’t Cause Cancer

Today's verdict in favor of a California man who said his cancer was caused by exposure to Bayer AG's Roundup weedkiller is further evidence that glyphosate, the herbicide's active ingredient, is...

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (8/11): Formaldehyde in Salons and Contaminants in Well Water

Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

Breathe Easy: Healthier Indoor Air in Cold Weather, Part 4

You've tackled the more obvious sources of airborne pollutants in your home. Now it's time to poke around your home's behind-the-scenes spaces to eliminate them there as well.