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Farm Bill Recipe for Financial Ruin?
By including the most costly components of the farm bills that passed the House and Senate, the bill expected to emerge this month from a House-Senate conference committee could cost taxpayers even...
FDA is trying (again) to clean up your hand soap
The federal Food and Drug administration has announced proposed rules that could drive unnecessary and potentially dangerous products from the market -- antibacterial hand soaps like those marketed by...
Genetic Engineering Has No Place In “Natural” Foods
Supermarket shelves are loaded with products that display the label “natural.” The food industry likes to use the word to persuade consumers that what they're buying is somehow better for them, their...
Genetic Engineering Has No Place In “Natural” Foods
Supermarket shelves are loaded with products that display the label “natural.” The food industry likes to use the word to persuade consumers that what they're buying is somehow better for them, their...
Obama and Vilsack Push For Conservation Compliance
EWG's Sean Gray Investigates BB & CC Creams
How did I spend my summer? I hung around department store makeup aisles, looking for the much talked about “miracle” makeup, BB and CC creams. You should have seen the looks I got as I dabbed the...
On Thanksgiving, Thank An Organic Farmer
The Hidden Truth About Peanuts: From Food Allergies to Farm Practices
A peanut butter and jelly sandwich hasn't always been a loaded weapon on a lunchroom table.
Congress Plays Hunger Games with Our Vets
If you fast-forward your TV during the celebrity segments on Real Time with Bill Maher, you probably missed an important conversation during the November 15th episode driven by actor Casey Affleck...
Are Anti-Aging Products The Fountain Of Youth? Really?
EWG has long sounded the alarm that the FDA does not subject cosmetics to similar premarket reviews for efficacy and safety. After you've read a few ads for anti-aging creams, you might be asking...
Republican Support Continues To Grow For Conservation Compliance
Crop Insurance Subsidies Could Provide Bumper Crop of Budget Savings
Reducing subsidies to large farm businesses, crop insurance companies and their agents, and trimming their windfall profits could generate enormous savings, EWG has found.
In Defense of Billionaires
Millennial Momentum
I am a millennial – one of the roughly 50 million Americans born after 1980 and coming of age in the 21st Century. Generational theorists have called me lazy, narcissistic and entitled. But they've...
Stewardship Stories Document Benefits – For Taxpayers and Farmers
Every day, thousands of farmers take steps to reduce polluted runoff and restore wetlands and grasslands. Many more would help, but 40 percent of farmers have been turned away by the U.S. Department...
Subsidies and Ethanol Mandate Fuel Massive Dust Storms
Waxman, DeGette Urge White House To Curb Toxic Diesel in Fracking Fluid
Diesel fuels contain highly toxic chemicals, one of which is benzene, a known carcinogen. Even very small concentrations of benzene can contaminate water supplies. If benzene and other toxic chemicals...
Poverty Grows in Many Counties Alongside Higher Farm Subsidies
Belgium Boosts Cell Phone Radiation Safeguards
Belgium recently adopted new cell phone regulations that bar mobile phone models designed for, and marketed to children ages 7 and younger. Under Belgium's new rules, slated to take effect next March...
Chemical Agriculture on the Attack, Again
Keeping politicians on message can sometimes be difficult. That also holds true of corporate chiefs and movie stars. Even the most seasoned, media-savvy folks veer off their talking points on occasion...