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Think federal farm subsidies only help out struggling family farmers? Think again.

The cotton industry and its supporters in Congress have not been coy about asking for what they want: a new $10 billion farm subsidy.

Cal Dooley, the top lobbyist for the chemical industry, likes to say he is optimistic that the proposed chemical safety law being developed in Congress would be the “gold standard” on which other...

Demand for organic food is soaring – so much so that Costco is running out of it.

This week EWG asked our Facebook followers to thank Driscoll's, the nation's largest grower of strawberries, for its investment in organic farming to date and commitment to increasing organic...

One of your kid's favorite fruits is hiding a dirty secret. Of all the fresh fruits and vegetables available for sale in the United States, sweet, sun-kissed strawberries are the most likely to be...

Remember when we warned you that Americans are at greater risk of being exposed to Monsanto's glyphosate herbicide than Europeans? Well, that might become even truer if the French government follows...

National media outlets, public health officials and Congress have all focused recently on lead contamination in drinking water, as they should be. The tainted water in Flint, Mich., Newark, N.J. and...

Consumers and the environment have reason to rejoice. According to new data released this week by the Department of Agriculture, the number of certified organic farms and operations in the United...

The recent Porter Ranch methane spill in Los Angeles County spewed about 66 tons of methane into the air every hour for four months. After the leak was finally sealed in February, scientists estimated...

Crop insurance hikes up the cost of cropland -- bad news for small farmers who own their own land and growers, large and small, who rent acreage from landlords.

On this day in 1938, a DuPont chemist named Roy J. Plunkett in Deepwater, N.J., accidentally discovered polytetrafluoroethylene, a slippery substance remarkably resistant to water, grease and stains...

Every parent knows that caring for a new baby requires lots and lots of cleaning. But can washing up the milk and spit-up introduce your baby to potentially harmful chemicals?

Perchlorate, a toxic component of rocket fuel, may be harming your baby's development – and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is allowing it to happen, even in the face of clear health hazards.

“Five Questions from Ken” is a new series of conversations with EWG President Ken Cook and inspiring leaders of the environmental health world.

You might think you can't put a price on protecting public health and the environment. But you'd be wrong — especially if we're talking about the nation's broken and outdated chemicals law, the 1976...

Kraft made headlines a year ago when it announced changes to its famed, kid-favorite macaroni and cheese. The company vowed to replace artificial dyes with natural ingredients and to eliminate...

The rate of premature births in the U.S. is among the highest in the developed world, with nearly one in 10 babies born in 2014 arriving before 37 weeks of pregnancy.

Genetically modified corn and soybeans were supposed to reduce chemical use on farms, but instead they've done the exact opposite by creating herbicide-resistant "superweeds" and increasing the use of...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week (March 23) it will allow farmers to plant a new strain of genetically modified (GMO) corn created by Monsanto to be tolerant of the week killers...