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Beach closings at all-time high in 2006
Last summer I lived just a mile from a beach -- a real beach, with an ocean and everything. Having grown up several hundred miles from the Atlantic in a town where the only "beach" was a long patch of...
Outside the Box: Going for gold
We are one summer away from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the host country is trying to win the gold by going green. This week's Outside the Box hurdles organic pork, strict air quality...
Big-box muscles push for greener packaging
When a retailer with $60 billion in annual sales says jump, manufacturers ask how high, and in this case that's great news for the environment.
Saturday Morning Multimedia: Toilet environmentalism
Plenty of companies make water-efficient toilets these days, but replacing your old model with a newer one is an expensive endeavor -- and if you live in an apartment building, it's pretty much...
Problem toys: A personal perspective
This post from one of the Urban Mamas bloggers really drove home the reality of the Mattel recall for me. I don't have babies of my own (yet -- don't worry, Mom, I'll get there!), so while I was busy...
Toxic children's toys signal time for reform
In what is only the nation's second largest toy recall this year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall of more than one million lead-painted toys.
EPA sued over potentially dangerous pesticide
When a CDC website describes the possible medical effect of a pesticide like this ...may produce a variety of effects on the nervous system including headaches, blurred vision, watering of the eyes...
Outside The Box: Head for the hills!
Ecosystems are fragile like a house of cards: add the wrong component in the wrong place and it can come tumbling down. Worlds are at war as this week's OTB resembles a third rate science fiction...
Ask EWG: Is hydroponic produce organic?
This is our first Ask EWG video! We're pretty excited about it, but as a small nonprofit that focuses on research we're just getting the hang of this YouTube thing. If you've got any comments...
Need health insurance? Here's an idea...
Science has been demonstrating recently that there are links between increasing rates of chronic diseases in the US and environmental exposures. If you are lucky, you have health insurance that will...
Millions of children die annually due to environmental hazards
In the poorest parts of the world, one in five children will not live longer than their fifth birthday and this is mainly because of environment-related diseases, according to the World Health...
Saturday Morning Multimedia: EWG on TreeHugger Radio
This week's edition of TreeHugger Radio featured an interview with EWG Analyst Kristan Markey, who discussed our report on sunscreen safety and efficacy. You can listen to the episode or go to...
Pepsi to label Aquafina tap water
Ahh . . . there's nothing quite like a cold refreshing bottle of $2 tap water. In a surprising decision to call a spade a spade, Pepsi has agreed to change the label on its Aquafina bottled water to...
The Onion on pollutants in people
Oh, The Onion. From an article titled EPA Warns Human Beings No Longer Biodegradable
House Farm Bill: A Missed Opportunity for Leadership and Real Reform
On balance, this House farm bill will be remembered as a missed opportunity for reform of federal farm policies that are broken at their core. It also represents a failure of House leadership to serve...
America's schools have a pesticide problem
We talk a lot about pesticides around these parts, and with good reason. Marc Lame talks a lot about pesticides, too. He's an entomologist and professor at Indiana University's School of Public and...
Message Received: Growing organics in the Fairness Amendment
Remember the petition we asked (and asked, and asked) you to sign to tell Congress to Grow Organics?
Down and dirty: WVE on household hazards
You mop your floors, clean the tub, and scrub your toilet until it shines. Or, if you're like me, you make your significant other do it for you. But have you ever stopped to think about why we spend...
Short Crop
Black farmers receive between one-third to one-sixth of the benefits under major federal crop subsidy programs that other farmers receive, and the “subsidy gap” has widened over the past decade.
Outside the Box: Conventional wisdom
Conventional wisdom is by definition logical, predictable, and normal — in other words, a snooze fest. This week the devil buys ice skates and pigs brush up on their aviation skills as OTB takes a...