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EWG News Roundup (3/12): Northern Virginia Water Contaminated With PFAS, Michael Regan Confirmed as EPA Administrator and More

EWG News Roundup (3/12): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

PFAS contaminates public drinking water systems serving at least 19 million people in 49 states. This interactive map from EWG and the Social Science Health and Environmental Health Research Institute shows where PFAS has been detected in drinking water.

EWG Issues Guide to Men’s Environmental Health

Toxic substances in drinking water, food, food packaging and personal care products, as well as exposure to the sun's harmful UV rays, have all been linked to serious health problems that affect many...

EWG News Roundup (1/10): Trump Threatens To Derail PFAS Action, California Fails To Test Infants for Lead and More

EWG News Roundup (1/10): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (10/30): EPA Extends the Use of Harmful Pesticide, DuPont Still Discharges PFOA and More

EWG News Roundup (10/30): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (2/26): Trump’s USDA Sent Farm Subsidies to Richest Farmers, Environmental Racism in America and More

EWG News Roundup (2/26): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG news roundup (7/29): Mapping Western Lake Erie Basin AFOs, billions of dollars in landmark Senate deal to fight climate crisis, and more

EWG news roundup (7/29): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

No more tears......just cancer causing chemicals

Baby products should not contain toxic ingredients, according to common sense as well as 40 + organizations lead by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) co-founded Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.

A Pro-Industry EPA Could Undermine New Chemical Safety Law

By releasing the first 10 chemicals to be reviewed under the new federal chemical safety law, the Environmental Protection Agency reminds us of what's at stake – and how decisions made by the incoming...

For Safe, Nontoxic Personal Care Products, Look Beyond the Pink Ribbon

EWG, breastcancer.org and breasthealth.org discuss potentially harmful ingredients in personal care products and why it's important to choose based on the contents, rather than the packaging.

True Horror Stories Of Cosmetic Dangers

People will go to great lengths to be “beautiful,” and cosmetics companies know it. It was not until 1938 that Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which gave the FDA power to act...

EWG news roundup (5/28): Little progress on cleanup of ‘forever chemicals’ at military bases, a healthy and safe Memorial Day and more

EWG news roundup (5/28): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Major Corporations Take Key Steps to Put Consumer Health First

Yesterday marked a major victory for American consumers as mega-retailer Walmart announced a Sustainable Chemistry initiative that takes an important step toward protecting the health and wellness its...

EWG Surveys Personal Care Product Companies About 1,4-Dioxane

The Environmental Working Group is surveying U.S. makers of personal care products to ask if they are working to remove 1,4-dioxane, a likely human carcinogen, from their products. According to EWG's...

Consumer Pressure Leads Avon To Phase Out Antibacterial Chemical

Washington, D.C. – The decision by Avon, one of the world's largest beauty product manufacturers, to remove the antibacterial chemical triclosan from its products is “the latest example of how...

EWG News Roundup (11/22): Mark Ruffalo, EWG Demand PFAS Action; Trump ‘Bails Out’ Rich Farmers Again and More

EWG News Roundup (11/22): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Pervasive phthalates: New study links child exposure to cancer

Exposure to phthalates is widespread in the U.S., with more than three in four adults having detectable levels of the chemicals in their urine. And now a new study suggests an association between...