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This week, EWG broke down how America's farmworkers are imperiled when it comes to contracting COVID-19.

Counties with or near meatpacking plants have almost twice the rate of known COVID-19 infections as the national average, according to a geospatial analysis by the Environmental Working Group.

Depending on the season, an estimated 1 million to 2.7 million workers, mostly undocumented, toil on the nation's farms. Without farmworkers, the American food system would collapse – and during the...

When you think of energy and Texas, you think of oil. But besides being the leading oil and natural gas production and refining state, Texas is also a national leader in renewable energy.

My life's work is to protect and promote babies' health, and as all parents know (and now the whole world is learning, or seeing in the background on a Zoom call), our personal and professional lives...

EWG News Roundup (5/8): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

In 1983, Iowa was the first state to set a renewable energy standard – requiring utilities to generate a mandated share of electricity from renewable sources – and it paid off: Wind power is Iowa's...

EWG News Roundup (5/1): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Congress should direct the Department of Agriculture to use COVID-19 relief funds to ensure that farmworkers –not big farmers – have protections, free testing and paid sick leave.

At least 2,500 industrial facilities across the nation could be discharging the toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS into the air and water, according to an updated EWG analysis of government...

Being stuck at home for weeks on end stinks. But it's necessary to flatten the curve of the coronavirus, so let's make the best of it. EWG came up with ways to take advantage of this time of self...

The federal government's toothless nuclear “watchdog” has historically shown more concern for keeping dangerous aging reactors running than for Americans' safety from a nuclear accident. So how is the...

The coronavirus pandemic will leave in its wake an urgent need to rebuild state economies. In Kentucky, building out the state's huge potential for wind and solar power can play a major role – but...

EWG News Roundup (4/24): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research by the Environmental Working Group and the PFAS Project at Northeastern University's Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute, or SSEHRI, has helped to map the crisis of...

The Trump administration's plan to spend billions to address the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on agriculture may help industrial-scale produce farms but does little to assist farmworkers...

Firefighting foam is one of the most significant sources of water contamination from the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS. PFAS-based firefighting foams have been widely used by the military...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, farmworkers are risking their lives to feed us. So why are some officials in the Trump administration and some Republicans in Congress trying to cut farmworkers'...

EWG News Roundup (4/17): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

More than 20 million people grow, harvest, pack, process, transport, serve and sell our food. The food and farm industry rivals the energy and health care sectors in terms of number of jobs.