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Trouble Downstream
Due to lax standards and implementation problems, the conservation compliance program is missing cost-effective opportunities to make further, substantial reductions in soil erosion on U.S. cropland.
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EWG’s Food Scores Helps People Find Out What’s Really In Their Food
Today, Environmental Working Group released Food Scores: Rate Your Plate, an easy-to-use food database and mobile app that will house ratings and a vast array of other information for more than 80,000...
EWG TSCA 8(e) Petition to US EPA
EWG asks EPA administrator Whitman to investigation apparent reporting violations by DuPont Chemical. EWG submits documentation that DuPont had determined that 2 of 7 babies born to Teflon-exposed...
Fluoride in your water: How much is too much?
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposes that public water systems cut back on the amount of fluoride they add to drinking water.
Plate of the Union: New Campaign Will Activate Consumers for Healthy Food and Sustainable Farm Policy
Every five years, the government passes an almost-trillion-dollar piece of legislation that profoundly impacts food and farm policy. For decades, big agribusiness has dominated the process, with its...
Climate change isn’t high priority for $1.2 billion USDA farm stewardship program
One of the Department of Agriculture’s largest farm stewardship programs doesn’t make a big enough priority of helping farmers reduce greenhouse gases – even though food and farming emissions keep...
EWG News Roundup (12/18): Biden Announces Top Environmental and Energy Nominees, Winter Healthy Skin Tips and More
EWG News Roundup (12/18): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG news roundup (3/25): Federal crop insurance linked to climate crisis, the meaning of EU ban on controversial cosmetic ingredient and more
EWG news roundup (3/25): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (March 3)
It was quite the busy week for the Trump team – with new Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt wasting no time putting his extreme, anti-environment agenda in place.
EWG Standards Cut Through Compromises on Drinking Water Quality
When it comes to your drinking water, getting a passing grade from the federal government may not be good enough.
Chemical Industry Shill Nominated to Lead EPA Toxics Program
In May, EWG reported that former chemical industry bigwig Nancy Beck was the scariest Trump appointee you've never heard of. We may have spoken too soon.
New GE Crops/Weed Killer Combo Puts Foods At Risk
More than 440,000 acres of food crops – including potatoes, peas, grapes and tomatoes – could soon be in the toxic spray zones of a weed-killing chemical linked to Parkinson's disease and reproductive...
EWG's 10 tips for a less toxic pregnancy
Last week we told you about the 232 toxic chemicals we found in umbilical cord blood. This week we tell you how to reduce your exposures to toxic chemicals to keep them out of your womb.
Top Labor Day Tips to End Summer on a High Note
Whether you're planning a beach outing, pool party or cookout to mark the last days of summer, here are some tips for a safe and healthy Labor Day weekend.
100 million+ Americans Exposed to Forgotten Toxics in Drinking Water
A new Environmental Working Group analysis of 2011 water quality tests by 201 large U.S. municipal water systems that serve more than 100 million people in 43 states has determined that all are...
EWG backs strict California chromium-6 goal
EWG urges California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to set a strict public health goal for hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium-6, a probable carcinogen, and move rapidly to...
Testimony on Conservation Policy Under the Next Farm Bill
EWG's testimony for the record to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry of the House Committee on Agriculture.
EWG news roundup (10/21): EWG updates report card tracking federal agencies’ PFAS deadlines, chemicals in hair straighteners linked to uterine cancer and more
EWG news roundup (10/21): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
Advocates urge House Farm Bill leaders to protect and strengthen anti-hunger and climate spending programs, include worker protections
A diverse collection of anti-hunger, environmental, nutrition, public health and worker advocates on Wednesday urged House farm bill leaders to protect and strengthen anti-hunger and climate spending...
Could be hard to avoid these 7 cleaning ingredients, but you should try
A few weeks ago I stood in the cleaning aisle wondering what to get. Since I'm a die-hard label reader, I grabbed some containers and turned them around so I could assess the ingredients.
The Other National Debt
You hear plenty of talk about the ballooning federal deficit created by tax cuts, two wars and the effort to dig out of the economic meltdown, but precious little about the funding gap that's...
Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parenting in a Toxic World
Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking...
This Memorial Day, fire up the grill to get a taste of summer, not toxic chemicals
The sizzle of the grill – that’s the sound of summer getting underway. This Memorial Day, plan a better barbecue to avoid a side of toxic chemicals.
