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Real Reform Needed for Outdated Cosmetics Laws
Every day, people apply cosmetics and other personal care products to their skin and hair. The average American woman uses 12 personal care products a day, exposing herself to 168 different chemicals...
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Mercury in Tuna Plummets As Coal-Fired Power Drops
A bit of good news for seafood lovers: Scientists at Stony Brook University recently reported a notable drop in mercury concentrations in bluefin tuna caught in the Gulf of Maine over the past decade.
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EWG News Roundup (Dec. 2): EPA Action, the Farm Bill, Food and Toxic Detergents
Heading into the holiday season, there was some good news out of the EPA. The agency listed the first batch of toxic chemicals it will tackle, which includes asbestos. Also this week, EWG took part in...
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A Pro-Industry EPA Could Undermine New Chemical Safety Law
By releasing the first 10 chemicals to be reviewed under the new federal chemical safety law, the Environmental Protection Agency reminds us of what's at stake – and how decisions made by the incoming...
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Will We Modernize Farm Policy?
In recent years, important bipartisan progress has been made to food policy, including new food safety laws, new rules and incentives for healthier packaged foods, increased access to healthier foods...
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Rising Seas Could Inundate Trump's Fla. Resorts
President-elect Donald Trump is skeptical about climate change. But if he's wrong and scientists are right, his Mar-a-Lago mansion and golf resort in Palm Beach, Fla., and other properties bearing his...
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Ask an Expert: Your Questions Answered by Curt DellaValle, Ph.D., Senior Scientist
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Could Farm Policy Support Healthy Diets?
Can we reform farm policies to support healthier diets? The Washington Post's food writer Tamar Haspel discounts the role that subsidies can play in the choices farmers make, noting that subsidies...
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Will the New Administration Bring ‘Freedom Fries’ Back to Our Schools?
One of the leading candidates for Secretary of Agriculture says bringing deep-fat fryers back to our schools isn't about french fries. It's about freedom.
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President-Elect Says ‘Crystal Clear Water’ Crucial
During a sit-down Tuesday with top brass from The New York Times, President-elect Donald Trump told the assembled journalists, columnists and editors that “clean air and ‘crystal clear water' were...
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Agency Charged with Drinking Water Safety Already Drowning, Mr. Trump
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Don’t Expect Trump’s Top Cop Go After Law-Breaking Polluters
President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is one of the most outspoken critics of environmental science and biggest climate change skeptics in Washington.
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News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (Nov. 18)
No natural resource or law protecting our environmental health is immune from the menacing promises hurled on the American people by President-elect Donald Trump and his team.
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EWG News Roundup (Nov. 18): Trump, Farms, Food and Drinking Water
It's been a busy week for EWG as we launched our new watchdog initiative, Planet Trump, where we'll provide a steady stream of commentary and analysis highlighting the implications President-elect...
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‘Cupcake King’ Could Head Agriculture Department
When Sid Miller took office as Texas' Agriculture Commissioner last year, his first action was to “grant amnesty” to cupcakes and other sweets sold in his state's schools.
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Trump Thinks Asbestos ‘100 Percent Safe’
Our next president thinks asbestos – a carcinogen that kills up to 15,000 Americans a year, with no safe level of exposure – "got a bum rap."
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Carmakers to Trump: Make America Guzzle Again
A week before the election, Reuters reported that new cars are more fuel efficient than ever: You might think carmakers would welcome this news of progress toward cutting the fuel emissions that drive...
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Trump May Hand Sarah Palin Keys to Nation’s Public Lands, Wildlife
“Drill, baby, drill!” During her failed bid for vice president in 2008, that was Sarah Palin's crowd-pleasing chant promoting her energy policy. Now the pithy catchphrase – and the former Alaska...
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Arsenic, Pesticides, Chemicals in Kids? Trump Adviser Ebell and Breitbart Dismiss Concerns, Target EWG
Myron Ebell, head of President-elect Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency transition team, is a notorious denier of global warming whose biography unashamedly notes that activists consider...
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