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Toxic Waters: Hear it for yourself
Back in September we wrote here about a West Virginia family with really, really toxic tap water. We learned about the Hall-Massey family's tragic situation in the New York Times' excellent...
Why, oh why is there plastic in my aluminum water bottle?
Not so long ago, many of us were happily - and possibly a little smugly - sipping water from our reusable aluminum water bottles. Until, that is, we learned that Sigg and Gaiam bottles weren't exactly...
Putting Our Money Where the Mouths Are
The Great Recession is being felt in America's stomachs, the government reports. Nearly one in seven American households had trouble putting enough food on the table at some point in 2008, according...
Agriculture and Carbon: "The More We Mimic Mother Nature the Better"
Veteran reporter Dan Morgan has taken a hard, clear-eyed look at carbon markets for agriculture and the validity of various conservation practices aimed at fighting climate change (h/t farmpolicy.com)...
Public Health Assn Calls For Asbestos Ban
By Elaine Shannon People think asbestos, a known carcinogen and cause of lung disease, has been banned - and it has, in about 40 countries. But not here in the United States, where, according to the U...
A Prairie Home Companion Pokes Fun at Iowa Corn
A Prairie Home Companion, the long-running radio variety show, Robert Altman movie and purveyor of powdermilk biscuits,usually broadcasts from St. Paul, Minnesota. Last week's performance originated...
Healthy Home Tip 6: (Still) skipping the non-stick
Even though I'm tempted by some of the new, post-Teflon "non-stick" cookware, I resist. They're just too new to know for sure if they're any safer. And there's a history in this country of replacing...
School cleaning supplies: Plenty toxic but very fixable
Baking soda, vinegar and plain soap are my cleaning supplies at home - plus a little elbow grease. I don't use conventional cleaners for a reason: I don't know what's in them (very weak labeling laws)...
Corn. Corn. And yes, more corn.
In case you missed the movie King Corn (if you did you should see it, and not just because EWG's Founding President Ken Cook is in it), take 2 minutes and 17 seconds to get the gist of our country's...
NPR Uncovers Natural Gas's Dirty Secrets
Drilling for natural gas is a dirty business, as Enviroblog readers know. Dusty Horwitt, Environmental Working Group's Senior Counsel, has worked tirelessly to document the environmental depredations...
USDA Research: Does No-Till Really Capture More Carbon?
The Agriculture Research Service (ARS) of the US Department of Agriculture released a surprising bit of climate change-related research on Tuesday, work that suggests that getting big cuts in...
Cell Phone Radiation Series - Part 3: Who's protecting you?
The science may not yet be decided on the effects of cell phone radiation on human health, but recent research is unsettling enough that Environmental Working Group (and government safety agencies...
Good Magazine's Cornography
All corn, all the time. Good Magazine's YouTube channel has had this punchy, short video up since January, illustrating how corn permeates American life. EWG's work tracking the billions of dollars in...
Toxic chemicals and you: In search of 'safe'
140,321,493 searches have been requested on EWG's Skin Deep cosmetics safety database since 2004 - and counting. That's a lot of searches, by a lot of people seeking safer personal care products...
Delta Farm Press Climate Change Q and A
Delta Farm Press reporter David Bennett posted his Q and A with EWG Midwest VP Craig Cox on Friday. Their discussion centered on points raised by Cox's recent report on the cost of climate change to...
Loophole Deja Vu: Senate Climate Bill's Agriculture Offsets Include Polluter Giveaway
Hearings began in the Senate last week on the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. This bill, the companion legislation to the Waxman-Markey climate change bill passed by the House...
Minnesota Ethanol Plant Fined $425K for Environmental Violations
Corn ethanol is far from an environmentally friendly fuel. While petroleum's pollution contributions are obvious and well reported, ethanol's are less clear. However, from chemical fertilizers and...
Tips for safer (face) painting this Halloween... and beyond
It's the Thursday before Halloween and my kids haven't quite decided what to be. Top runners at this point (it changes daily) are pretty standard: witch and princess.
If You Follow the Science, It's Senseless to Boost the Corn Ethanol Blend
Last week saw the launch of a new web property by a coalition of environmental and business groups who take a dim view of plans to raise the ethanol content of gasoline to 15%. The site, Follow the...
Healthy Home Tip 5: Another reason to wash those hands
With one case of kid flu and another serious case of coughing and sneezing in the house this week, our family is hand washing like never before. Parents included.
