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BPA: Why I Became Best Friends with my Slow Cooker
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Sediment Study Shows More Soil Conservation Needed
Faster is better, right? So is it a good thing that it now takes only 59 days for an Iowa lake to undergo a change that once took 631 days? No. Not when we're talking about how long it takes for a...
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Crop Insurance: “Something’s Gotta Give”
In a recently posted blog titled Something's Gotta Give, Marcia Zarley Taylor proves once again that she is one of the most cogent observers of crop insurance. Taylor is executive editor of the...
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Another Environmentalist Apologizes Over GMOs
I need to start by publicly apologizing for not engaging in the debate over genetically engineered crops, technically, genetically modified organisms or GMOs, until two years ago.
Study Links Hair Products to Early Puberty in Girls
As a child, one of my least favorite activities was getting my hair styled. It required a lot of time and patience -- two things I had in short supply.
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Fuel Stop: Your Weekly Roundup of Ethanol-Related News (Jan. 5-11)
Ethanol related stories for January 5-11, 2013
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Parkinson's and Pesticides
Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook often points out that many pesticides that were once liberally sprayed on food crops and considered perfectly safe turn out to be anything but - after...
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Fracking in or near your backyard
The film “Promised Land,” now showing in theaters across the country, plays off the intense national conversation about the relatively new natural gas drilling technology called high volume horizontal...
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ChiTrib Finds Toxic Fire Retardant in Crib Mattresses
The Chicago Tribune reports it has detected cancer-causing chemicals known as chlorinated tris in 11 crib mattresses made in China and sold by Babies R Us, Foundations and Angeles brands. None of the...
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Cleaning Never Tasted So Good
Olive oil and lemon juice,...sounds like a base for a fantastic vinaigrette, right? As a former professional chef, I always keep these simple ingredients stocked to create a variety of tasty sauces...
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10 Top Environmental Health Stories of 2012
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Speaker Boehner Right to Reject Extravagant Farm Bill
House Speaker John Boehner made the right choice when he refused to include a trillion-dollar farm bill in legislation designed to avert the “fiscal cliff.”
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The Top Stories of the Year in Agriculture, Food and Water
Events that used to be called “acts of God” – but that we now realize are increasingly driven by human activity – became the most important environmental news stories of 2012 in the opinion of...
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Chemical Industry to Parents: Avoid Lead, Tail Pipes and Choking
This is rich. The chemical industry has produced a new "health information" website titled Kids + Chemical Safety that mentions hardly any chemicals or any of the voluminous body of peer-reviewed...
Lawmakers Could Look to Farm Bill for $100 Billion in Additional Budget Savings
EWG's Scott Faber joined representatives of several fiscally conservative organizations in calling on Congress not to slip a full farm bill reauthorization into any legislative package they cobble...
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Just How "Green" is Walgreens?
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Secret Farm Bill Threatens an “Environmental Cliff”
Congressional leaders in search of a compromise to avoid plunging off the “fiscal cliff” are under growing pressure from the agriculture subsidy lobby and its friends in Congress to attach a subsidy...
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How EWG Grades Cleaning Products in its New Guide
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Secret Farm Bill from Secret Santa?
Congressional leaders in search of a compromise to avert the “fiscal cliff” are under growing pressure from advocates for subsidized agriculture to attach a $1 trillion farm bill to legislation...
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Nation's Pediatricians Warn Against Pesticides in Food
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