EWG Calls on EPA to Set Lower Limit on Perchlorate in Water
EWG commends EPA for taking action to protect Americans from perchlorate, an endocrine-disrupting compound and contaminant in tap water.
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EWG News Roundup (10/23): Inside the FDA’s Failure To Ban Toxic Hair Straighteners, How the Supreme Court Could Dismantle Environmental Law and More
EWG News Roundup (10/23): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
New Studies Trace PFC Pollution from Sources to the Next Generation
Fluorine-based chemicals that can cause cancer, developmental toxicity and numerous other detrimental health effects have contaminated the drinking water of millions of Americans, and the blood of...
New study links chemicals in hair straighteners to uterine cancer
Women who often use chemical hair straighteners may be twice as likely to develop uterine cancer as those who never touch the treatments, a new study finds.
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Scented Secrets
A major loophole in federal law allows fragrance manufacturers to hide potentially hazardous chemicals in product scents, including substances linked to allergies, birth defects, and even cancer. Because they won't tell you what's in the scents they sell you, we combed through thousands of Valentine's Day gift ideas to bring you products that not only smell great, but that are also free of hidden
Risks of Plastic Chemical Add Up for Infants
Statement of Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Environmental Working Group to the National Research Council Meeting 2 – Committee on the Health Risks of Phthalates
House Bill Would Ban BPA In Infant Formula
Legislation introduced today will protect all formula-fed babies from being exposed to high levels of BPA by removing the toxic chemical from all food containers, including those for infant formula.
EWG News Roundup (8/20): 10 Ways the Trump Administration Has Made Life More Toxic, Racial Disparities Fueling COVID-19’s Force and More
EWG News Roundup (8/20): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG news roundup (2/3): Updated Farm Subsidy Database, FDA creates new role to address food safety failures and more
EWG news roundup (2/3): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
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Tainted Catch
Levels of a little-known class of neurotoxic chemicals found in computers, TV sets, cars and furniture are building up rapidly in key indicator species of San Francisco Bay fish, according to tests by the Environmental Working Group (EWG.)
Environmental Groups Sue FDA to Take Formaldehyde Out of Salons
The Food and Drug Administration has failed to act on dangerous hair straighteners that contain unsafe levels of formaldehyde and pose a significant health hazard to consumers and salon workers, the...
How Much Seafood Should Your Family Eat?
Seafood is good source of lean protein and healthy omega-3 fatty acids. But some types of fish contain high levels of mercury, a heavy metal that's harmful to human health when consumed in large...
Wellness Chat: The Indoor Environment
Nicole Deziel, Ph.D. in this lightly edited interview with EWG, she shares her thoughts on how household exposures can affect health.
EWG Urges California to Protect Kids from Monsanto’s Cancer-Causing Herbicide
California's landmark health guideline for Monsanto's herbicide glyphosate is a huge step forward, but falls short of protecting children's health, according to evidence assembled by EWG scientists.
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Chemicals linked to birth defects can stay in cosmetics, says Cosmetic Industry safety panel
Most people are surprised to learn that the government neither conducts nor requires safety testing of chemicals that go into health and beauty products. Today a panel funded and advised by the cosmetic industry determined that cosmetic companies can continue to add reproductive toxins known as phthalates to cosmetics marketed to women of childbearing age.
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DuPont Hid Teflon Pollution For Decades
Secret tests conducted in 1984 by the DuPont chemical company found a Teflon-related contaminant (C8) in the tap water of the Little Hocking Water Association in Ohio, just across the river from the company's Teflon plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. But the company never told the community, its water utility or state regulators about the tap water testing program, which continued through at
Secret chemicals revealed in celebrity perfumes, teen body sprays
San Francisco - A new analysis reveals that top-selling fragrance products—from Britney Spears' Curious and Hannah Montana Secret Celebrity to Calvin Klein Eternity and Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce...
What you can do about the environmental risk factors that can lead to breast cancer
Cancer affects all communities. And breast cancer can occur in people of all genders
Pollution in people: It's an inside job
Beverly Wright has done battle with oil refineries and landfills. She has dug her New Orleans East neighborhood out from under tons of contaminated sludge smeared across the landscape by Hurricane...
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Across Generations
The unique bond between a mother and daughter starts in the womb and evolves over a lifetime, as each adapts and grows with the other in an elaborate interplay of nature and nurture. Shared bonds of common genetics and a common environment — their home, the air they breathe, and the food they eat — inextricably link daughters and mothers. Now, new laboratory tests of mothers and their daughters
New Government Fish Tests Raise Mercury Concerns
EWG's analysis of mercury data obtained from FDA under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that mercury contamination of fish is more serious than federal scientists previously assumed.
Respiratory Risk Before the First Breath? Household cleaning products may affect health in the womb
We know there is a link between exposure to cleaning products and respiratory problems. But could unborn babies be at risk from their mothers' exposures even before they've taken their first breaths?
PFAS news roundup
September 17: PFAS could cost taxpayers billions of dollars, manufacturing PFAS emits a potent greenhouse gas and more
Study Shows Monsanto’s Roundup Can Harm Fetuses
When mothers were exposed to glyphosate – the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup weed killer – during pregnancy, their babies weighed less at birth, according to inital data from an ongoing study.
