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EPA widens rift with science advisers
The stress crack between Environmental Protection Agency and its outside science advisers just got a lot deeper. In fact, these days it looks a lot like a thousand-foot crevasse. The proximate cause...
12th Annual Heinz Women's Health and the Environment Conference
Richard Wiles, the Environmental Working Group's Executive Director, and development associate Jocelyn Lyle joined more than 2,300 women for the 12th Annual Heinz Women's Health and the Environment...
There are studies. And then there are studies.
By now you're probably familiar with the controversy around the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) failure to consider all available, credible scientific evidence before it reassured the public...
The Disappearing Male documents concerning issues
Humans are polluted with hundreds of different industrial chemicals. Even babies are born polluted, as EWG's studies show. So, the new documentary " The Disappearing Male" should come as no surprise...
TSCA? No, thanks. Kid-Safe? Yes, please.
How old were you in 1976? I was 7, the #1 hit song was "Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney and Wings, and gas cost 59 cents a gallon. These and most things have changed in the last 32 years, but not...
In search of safe plastics
Following the inspiring example of Enviroblog’s Lisa Frack and her journey into post-plastic world, I started to wonder: what other convenient and ubiquitous uses of plastic in our lives act as a...
Am I my water's keeper?
Pharmaceuticals and plastic chemicals in marine and fresh waters. The concept of product stewardship, cradle-to-cradle, or, in more technical language, "life cycle assessment," has now acquired...
EWG Says: The BPA's Gotta Go
Well BPA sure has been in the news a lot lately, huh? And with good reason. We're following the goings on closely, and adding our voice to the debate. We recently sent a letter to top infant formula...
I survived. I'm changed. No, really.
In case you didn't catch my post last week on our plastic free week, it's over. I did it! Well, truth be told, I almost did it. Which is definitely better than not doing it at all because I am changed...
Tips from the make-up artist
Prior to working at EWG, I was the happy ignorant consumer. I got my cosmetics at the regular drug stores, believing that what I buy is safe, because, otherwise it wouldn’t be there. Since working...
Are we using the best available science to prevent breast cancer?
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and as we pause to think about the consequences of breast cancer for ourselves and our families, a question presents itself - how can we best use the...
Don't mess with my milk!
Last week I met one of the co-founders and current director of Make our Milk Safe (aka M.O.M.S.), an inspiring Oakland-based grassroots group that is fighting hard around the country to get toxic...
Ready, Set, No Plastic
I've long known about the whole plastics-in-the-ocean problem but never really been struck by it. Does that ever happen to you? It's happened to me plenty of times, where some issue lurks in the back...
White House going-out-of-business sale
Whoever takes over the White House is sure to do more for the environment than the current occupants. Well, it would be hard do less. In fact, doing nothing would be better than the administration’s...
Whither plastics and whither humanity?
By Nneka Leiba, MPH and Olga Naidenko, PhD No corner of the planet, however remote, is now free from synthetic chemical contaminants. Especially plastic. Big. Small. In every color. In every shape...
Healthy Home Tips for Parents
Just yesterday I listened to EWG President Ken Cook give a terrific presentation in San Francisco based on the influential cord blood study we did a few years ago. During the Q & A, someone asked a...
Eco-nomics, the new kind of economics
If you live in Washington DC, as I do, there are two things that you hear about everywhere you turn- the U.S. presidential election and the economic crisis. The first topic will be resolved quickly...
Please don't disrupt my endocrines!
Unless you've been living under a rock these past few years, or purposefully avoiding the newspaper, you've likely heard the term ' endocrine disruptor.' And it has a serious ring to it, doesn't it...
Conflicts of interest at the FDA...again
Last Tuesday, under fire from Congress and consumer groups, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration promised to investigate ties between a key science advisor and business interests maneuvering to avert...
Got funds for that research?
Even though I spent most of my school years trying to avoid science classes as much as possible, I have to acknowledge the importance of science in the lives of people. We need science to help us...