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The Trouble With Farm Offsets
The New Republic, Bradford Plumer Excerpt: The Environmental Working Group recently analyzed the House climate bill and noted that the legislation allows farmers to earn credits under the cap-and...
Pollution Credits Are Hot Issue in Climate Bill
Des Moines Register, Phil Brasher Excerpt: A bill passed by the House last month would set caps on greenhouse gases and require polluters to have permits for their emissions.
At what price tuna?
By Olga Naidenko, EWG Senior Scientist How much does a can of tuna cost to an average shopper in a U.S. supermarket? Something like 33 cents a can, if you look hard enough and search for a good sale...
Prop 65 misses the mark on BPA: Let's hope Sacramento does better
By Lisa Frack, EWG Online Organizer Just when we were cheering Oregon's progress, we watched California take a step backward. Why? Because yesterday a state panel in California decided not to declare...
Buying our way to utopia? Not so much.
Hi, my name is Lisa and I spend more time reading labels than ballots. There, I said it. Why do I spend so much time reading labels?
Eden Foods: A BPA-Free Pioneer
No one is more pleased to see the hazards of Bisphenol A in the spotlight than Mike Potter, father of six, grandfather of four, and founder and president of Eden Foods.
Farm and Forestry Offsets Key Question in Senate Debate
A new analysis from the Environmental Working Group estimates that the House bill could allow the equivalent of more than 67 large coal-fired power plants to avoid any new controls on greenhouse gas...
Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water
EWG analysis of combined effects of water fluoridation and disinfection treatments on lead pipes.
Support for Climate Bill Could Fray
The Hill, Jim Snyder Excerpt: An environmental group is mounting a fresh assault on the climate change legislation that squeaked through the House and faces an uncertain future in the Senate, raising...
EWG heads to Congress: Thanks for your help
A huge thanks to EWG fans for supplying the bottled water labels we needed to complete our report on bottled water labeling - which we ranked brand by brand. People-powered research at its finest.
Is bottled water safe? Who knows!?
By Lisa Frack As you might imagine, I read labels before I buy pretty much anything. But when they don't tell me a thing, why bother? Take, for example, bottled water. Labels disclose very little...
Because pesticides on your food aren't bad enough
Worried about your cantaloupe catching fire? You might not have to anymore! Your fruits and veggies may be doused in Deca, a flame retardant chemical and known neurotoxin.
New Doubts About Roundup
As the East Coast monsoon season slogs on, there's carnage in the garden. The dandelions and plantains are elbowing the grass aside, and the morning glory vines are garrotting the daylilies. Over at...
Intersex fish on Colbert Nation
On July 1st Nicholas Kristof wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times on endocrine disruptors: It's Time to Learn from Frogs.
Find your sunscreen in EWG's 2009 report
This week my family is vacationing, like many American families, and we're doing our best to play outside - a lot. Which, of course, means we're in the sun. And since we're from Oregon, our skin isn't...
Is there too much fluoride in your dog food? Read EWG's new report
You're probably familiar with the longstanding and often heated debate over the addition of fluoride to public water supplies. And while EWG does have an opinion on that, last week we focused on...
About BPA: Do you feel lucky?
Clint Eastwood/Harry Callahan's pithy question rings in my head, every time I read the chemical lobby's defense of bisphenol A(BPA), a high-volume industrial plastics chemical.
S. Dakota’s energy boom: Is it too much too soon?
Mitchell Daily Republic, Austin Kaus Excerpts: But some people have concerns about the state's rapid progress of energy development.
EWG's Healthy Home Tip 1: Choose better body care products
Most people use around 10 personal care products every day with an average of 126 unique ingredients. The government's NOT protecting us. We'd like to believe that the government is policing the...
When breast cancer has 'No Family History'
A while back, EWG staff scientist Olga Naidenko wrote here about the need to focus breast cancer research on prevention - with an emphasis on the role of carcinogens.