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How to Remove Toxic Dust, Your Home’s Most Unwanted Guest
Planting Trees Helped End the Dust Bowl. Crop Subsidies Reward Farmers Who Rip Them Out.
During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the federal government planted 220 million trees to stop the blowing soil that devastated the Great Plains.
EWG’s News Roundup (11/3): Greener Homes, Taxpayer Dollars Flow to Industrial Farms and More
EWG's News Roundup (11/3): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
The PFOA Drinking Water Contamination Crisis Just Got Much Bigger
Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that 1 percent of samples from public drinking water systems nationwide were contaminated with PFOA, a nonstick chemical formerly used to make...
Study: Eating Foods with Fewer Pesticides Boosts Women’s Chances to Conceive
Women seeking to get pregnant could significantly improve their chances by eating conventional fruits and vegetables with fewer pesticide residues, or eating organic produce, according to a new study...
EPA Chief Backs Another Pesticide Harmful to Kids
A pesticide called dicamba has become a poster child for the arms race between ever-stronger weeds and ever-stronger weed killers.
Beauty and the Beast: Fix Broken Cosmetics Law with Real Reform, Not Loopholes
EWG’s News Roundup (10/27): Chemical Industry Lackey Approved by Senate Committee, Competing Cosmetics Reform Bills and Rising Organic Demand
EWG's News Roundup (10/27): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Organic Imports Continue to Rise Alongside Organic Demand, Research Shows
EWG’s News Roundup (10/20): Trouble in Farm Country, EPA Toxics Nominee Hopscotches Senate and More
EWG's News Roundup (10/20): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
How to Breathe Safer as California Wildfires Rage On
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Reduce Exposure to Pollutants, Additives
Rice and Beans: $1.20 in New York, $73 in Haiti
People in developing nations don't go hungry because there's not enough food to go around. It's because they're poor.
Trump Chemical Safety Nominee Sparks Widespread Concern
President Trump's nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency has raised widespread concern among public health, reproductive health, labor, business and environmental...
EWG’s News Roundup (10/13): Feds Imperil Children’s Health, Seek Bailout for Coal and Nuke Industries
EWG's News Roundup (10/13): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG’s News Roundup (10/6): EPA Nominee Under Spotlight, Chefs Fight Childhood Hunger and EPA Head Wines and Dines Industry
San Francisco Moves to Protect Children from Flame Retardant Chemicals
San Francisco could soon become the first U.S. city to prohibit chemical flame retardants in all new upholstered furniture and children's products sold in the city, including online sales.
EWG Tackling Global Challenges, One Step at a Time
Eradicate poverty. End hunger. Reduce inequality. Stop climate change. Such huge, idealistic goals may seem impossible.
Nutrition Facts Delay: Latest Salvo in Trump’s War on Food
The Trump administration delayed a long-awaited update to nutrition labels on packaged food Friday, launching yet another assault in its war on good food policy.
In a First, San Francisco May Require Disclosure of Antibiotics in Meat
The overuse of antibiotics to raise livestock is creating superbugs, bacteria resistant to antibiotic drugs such as penicillin. San Francisco could soon become the first U.S. city to require major...