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Thousands Of Schools Would be Close To Toxic Spray Zones

There are 5,532 American schools within 200 feet of farm fields that may soon be blanketed with massive amounts of a toxic defoliant linked to Parkinson's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and...
Food & Water
Household & Consumer Products
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate

EWG News Roundup (8/24): How Would a Justice Kavanaugh Vote on Asbestos, Trump’s Dirty Power Scam, Avoid Bug Bites and More

EWG News Roundup (8/24): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Children’s Health
Midwest
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (9/20): EWG Estimates 100,000+ Cancer Cases Stem From Tap Water Contaminants, Fairway Farmers and More

EWG News Roundup (9/20): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Conservation
Food

How to get more fruits and veggies into school cafeterias

First Lady Michelle Obama's noble fight against childhood obesity cannot be won unless members of Congress act boldly this spring and vote to give school lunches the healthy makeover that our kids...
Food & Water
Farming & Agriculture
Toxic Chemicals

EWG News Roundup (6/15): Senate Panel Approves Bipartisan Farm Bill, Pressure Mounts on HHS to Publish Suppressed PFAS Study and More

News Roundup (6/15): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

PFCs: Global Contaminants

Consumers instantly recognize them as household miracles of modern chemistry, a family of substances that keeps food from sticking to pots and pans, repels stains on furniture and rugs, and makes the rain roll off raincoats. But in the past 5 years, the multi-billion dollar “perfluorochemical” industry has emerged as a regulatory priority for scientists and officials at the U.S. Environmental

EPA Needs to Set Enforceable Standards for Currently Unregulated Drinking Water Pollutants

Comments to the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board (SAB), Public Teleconference on the EPA SAB Drinking Water Committee report on EPA's draft Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate...
Research

Paradise Lost

The reality is that the nation's primary prairie and wetlands protection program – the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) – was not designed to meet the environmental challenges being created by record prices for farm commodities. Because the majority of the land in the program is taken out of agricultural production under 10- and 15-year rental agreements with the owners, cropland that had
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation
Food & Water
Food

Making a Good Farm Bill Program Better: Specialty Crop Grants in California

Compared to the billions that the government pays to subsidize industrial-scale growers of commodity crops such as corn, rice and soybeans, federal farm bill spending to promote cultivation and...

Toxic Chemicals

Remembering Theo Colborn: The Rachel Carson of My Generation

Dr. Theo Colborn was the Rachel Carson of a generation of environmentalists who work on toxic chemicals, pollution and health. She inspired hard work, inventive investigation and courage across the...

Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Quibble with Kibbles: ‘Forever chemicals’ in pet food packaging add to perils at home

The toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS create health hazards at home, since they’re used in everyday items like cookware and cosmetics – and new EWG research finds some popular pet food packaging...
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Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (5/5): Salty School Lunches, Rocket Fuel in Food, and N.C. Factory Farms

Here's some news you can use as you begin your weekend.

Cosmetics

The Toxic Twelve Chemicals and Contaminants in Cosmetics

Chemicals and contaminants linked to cancer can be found in food, water and many other everyday products. However, no category of consumer products is subject to less government oversight than cosmetics and other personal care products.
Cell Phones

Cell Phone Radiation Series - Part 3: Who's protecting you?

The science may not yet be decided on the effects of cell phone radiation on human health, but recent research is unsettling enough that Environmental Working Group (and government safety agencies...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics

Manufacturers Deceive Consumers with “Organic” Product Names

Savvy consumers know that cosmetics do not have to be tested and proved safe before making it onto store shelves. Consumer protections for personal care products are outdated and broken, so shoppers...

Farm Subsidies

Required conservation practices poorly monitored, farmers consistently denied conservation money, large farms continue to reap l

As the five major commodity crops reap billions in taxpayer dollars each year, nearly 70 percent of farmer requests for voluntary conservation assistance go unfunded and soil erosion rules for subsidy...
Farming & Agriculture

The Smoking Spud: Documents Prove Potato Giant Is Behind Irrigation Scheme in Pineland Sands

For decades, R.D. Offutt – one of the largest agriculture conglomerates in the U.S. – has proudly evaded meaningful environmental review in Minnesota. Offutt has played a shell game using land swaps...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Triclosan
Household & Consumer Products

FDA is trying (again) to clean up your hand soap

The federal Food and Drug administration has announced proposed rules that could drive unnecessary and potentially dangerous products from the market -- antibacterial hand soaps like those marketed by...

Personal Care Products
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Tampon shortage: Beware ‘forever chemicals’ in backup options

First there was a baby formula shortage, bare shelves where there should have been rows of packages. Now there’s a tampon supply problem – and publications from the New York Times and Sacramento Bee...
Empty tampon aisle shelves
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

Honeywell lobbying Gov. Newsom to veto measure banning ‘forever chemicals’ from cosmetics products

Technology giant Honeywell is lobbying California Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto a bill that would ban the sale in the state of cosmetics intentionally made with the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS...
Honeywell building
Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

Newsom signs law banning toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from cosmetics in California

On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that bans intentionally added toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS from cosmetics sold in California.
Research

Dangerous Monsanto Chemical Remains in Thousands of Schools

Schools serving up to 14 million students may be contaminated with unsafe concentrations of PCBs leaching from caulks, sealants, and other aging building materials.
Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Meat and Dairy Alternatives
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals
Pesticides

Making healthier food choices part of a busy daily routine

A little organization can set you up for success.

EWG News Roundup (5/29): Manure Overload in Minnesota, Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ on Military Bases and More

EWG News Roundup (5/29): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend