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FDA Tests Confirm Suspicions about PFAS Chemicals in Food
A recent investigation by the Food and Drug Administration found per- and poly- fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in food, including meat, seafood and dairy products; sweet potatoes; pineapples; leafy...
How Utility Schemes Make Customers Pay $1B a Year To Bail Out Dying Coal Plants
Big electric utilities are cooking the books to make their customers unwittingly bail out money-losing coal-fired power plants – schemes one analyst says costs U.S. ratepayers at least $1 billion a...
EWG News Roundup (5/31): EWG Seeks Details on Trump Cuts to Children’s Health Research, Calif. Lead Bill to Protect Workers Advances, Monsanto Caught Paying Front Group to Defend Weedkiller and More
EWG News Roundup (5/31): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Court Docs: Monsanto Paid Chemical Industry Front Group To Claim Cancer-Causing Weedkiller ‘Safe’ and Attack Its Critics
Ask EWG: How To Choose the Best Sunscreen for Your Kids
As with so many things in parenting, choosing a sunscreen for kids can be confusing and anxiety-provoking. You don't want your kids to get sunburned or have other skin damage that can lead to...
EWG News Roundup (5/24): EWG’s 2019 Guide to Sunscreens, EWG Board Member Michelle Pfeiffer Lobbies for Safe Cosmetics and More
EWG News Roundup (5/24): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Pee in the Pool Toxic or Just Gross?
Former U.S. Nukes Chief: “New nuclear is off the table”
From 2009 to 2012, Gregory Jaczko was chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which approves nuclear power plant designs and sets safety standards for plants. But he now says that nuclear power...
Trump’s EPA Kills Funding for Children’s Environmental Health Program
The Environmental Protection Agency is cutting off its funding of a network of research centers that focus on the risks to children from toxic chemicals and industrial pollution.
Trump EPA’s Fake Math: Clean Air Doesn’t Save Lives, So Burn More Coal
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to use a bogus method for estimating premature deaths from air pollution, dramatically lowering the death toll to help justify President Trump's decision to...
How Cover Crops Can Help Farmers, Protect Drinking Water and Fight Climate Change
As farmers struggle with a plummeting farm economy in the wake of President Trump's trade war, the administration is rushing to send a second round of cash payments – reportedly totaling $15 billion...
EWG News Roundup (5/17): Cover Crops Expand Across the Corn Belt, Billion Dollar Monsanto Ruling and More
EWG News Roundup (5/17): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
The U.S. Spends More To Subsidize Dirty Fuels Than on Defense
U.S. subsidies to the fossil fuel industry were nearly $650 billion in 2015, according to new estimates by the International Monetary Fund. That number – more than the nation spent on defense and 10...
What Parents Need To Know About Animal Factory Farms
You probably care a lot about how your fruits and vegetables are grown. You may not think as much about where your family's animal protein comes from, but the conditions in which most meat, poultry...
EWG News Roundup (5/10): Expanding PFAS Contamination Crisis, Golden State Bans Brain Damaging Pesticide and More
EWG’s ‘Just Add Lemons’ Presents Mother’s Day Brunch
With Mother's Day quickly approaching, EWG has curated a brunch menu from “Just Add Lemons: 100+ Recipes for Family and Home from EWG and Friends.” Celebrate your mother, grandmother or another...
Five Kids’ Snacks You Should Always Buy Organic
Mapping the PFAS Contamination Crisis: New Data Show 610 Sites in 43 States
EWG News Roundup (5/3): Dirty Duke Energy, Assessing the Combined Risk of Water Contaminants and More
EWG News Roundup (5/3): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.