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Farm livin': Not the life for toads
Living on or near agricultural land has feminizing effects on male cane toads, according to a recent report by Florida scientists. After comparing toads from a range of areas, from non-agricultural...
Are you ready for World Population Day?
I don't believe that it's the rising worldwide population that is leading to the environmental problems we are facing today. While I have to acknowledge that population growth plays a small role in it...
White House policy: Don't like it? Delete it.
A former EPA adviser alleges that Vice President Dick Cheney's office pressured the agency to delete nearly half of their testimony on the public health effects of climate change. President Bush took...
An open letter to the advertising industry
Dear Advertisers, When he spoke at your annual international conference in Cannes a year ago, Al Gore asked you to use your powers for good instead of evil. By emphasizing the environment, he said...
A tale of poison, deceit and heroism
I was going to go for the obvious today and tell you why fireworks are bad for the environment. But you already know that, right? It's a story that involves our old nemesis, perchlorate, and people...
Public funds for public transit
This post is by EWG's stellar media intern, Sameem. The buzz on gas prices has people rethinking the way they travel. USA Today recently reported record breaking public transit ridership based on a...
Grocery gap? What grocery gap?
As a Seattle native I regularly browse my hometown papers, and last week I stumbled onto a story about a new supermarket opening up just a mile or so from my boyhood home. The idea that a news article...
Mixed Greens 013: Don't get burned!
Does your sunscreen work? Probably says so on the bottle, but don't be so sure. In this edition of Mixed Greens, we break down how to choose a better sunscreen based on EWG's updated 2008 sunscreen...
How to choose a better sunscreen
4 out of 5. That's how many sunscreens failed EWG's examination this summer season. Seriously -- 4. Out of every 5. That's WAY too many. I mean, I guess it could be because we set the standards so...
Spray? We never wanted to spray!
In April, I told you about how citizen protests had forced the state to rethink its plans to spray an artificial pheremone over urban Northern California to eradicate a pest called the light brown...
Little yellow flags? Not in Connecticut
You know that old folk song about little boxes on the hillside? If it were written now, songwriter Melvina Reynolds would likely have added a verse about little yellow flags on the lawns. Those little...
Mattel lobbies to regulate itself
If I had a daughter, she would not be playing with Barbies. Besides the fact that I would want her to have different ideas of womanhood than Barbie present, I would be a afraid for her health! Barbie...
You know you're an <em>inaction</em> plan. . .
In honor of EPA's June 2008 "Action Plan," three members of the Mississippi River Water Quality Collaborative* explain why the EPA report amounts to an “Inaction Plan†and will have little effect...
Aussie study finds phthalates in jar lids
Sometimes it's hard to write about this stuff. Here I am, day and and day out, telling you that food packaged in glass containers is a better alternative to canned food -- and it is. But the results...
China's great greenwashing
Here, we call them cancer clusters. Their existence is practically denied much of the time, and when it is acknowledged the polluting industries in the neighborhood often deny any culpability. They...
Our poorly managed plastic system
The U.S. government should require labeling and warning systems for products containing bisphenol A (BPA) and the phthalate DEHP, according to researchers at the nonprofit Environment and Human Health...
Relaxing the relaxed standards?
The relationship between government and the cosmetics industry has been a cozy one for many years. The multi-billion dollar cosmetics industry has always been a self-regulating one, and in fact, FDA...
Bad weather is bad news for food and fuel
Two months ago, EWG Founder Ken Cook quipped that the Bush administration's food policy amounted to "hope for good weather." By then, EWG analysts were already hard at work on a report examining the...
Mixed Greens 012: Kid-Safe
How do we know when chemicals are safe enough? When they're safe for kids. This edition of Mixed Greens takes a look at the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act. Plus, the latest from EWG's research team. Mixed...
All the news that's fit to print
Okay, there were just too many interesting stories today. I couldn't pick one. Here are a handful, round-up style. In the Midwest, raw sewage, animal manure, fuel and agricultural chemicals are...