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EWG for the Win: Tips for Your Healthiest Super Bowl Yet
The big game is right around the corner and millions of Americans are making winning game plans for a Super Bowl party packed with quintessential football fare. Super Bowl Sunday comes in second only...
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Preventing Cancer is Not A Game of Chance
Today is World Cancer Day, a perfect time to raise awareness and spur action in the fight against cancer. It's a day to reflect on a very important question: What is the main cause of cancer? Is it...
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Cock-a-doodle-do! Crowing About False Farm Bill Savings
The House Committee on Agriculture, in a recent letter to the budget committee, boasts of being “proud to have made a significant contribution to deficit reduction with the passage of the (2014) farm...
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Preventing Cancer is Not a Game of Chance
Today is World Cancer Day, a perfect time to raise awareness and spur action in the fight against cancer. It's a day to reflect on a very important question: What is the main cause of cancer? Is it...
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Americans At Greater Risk Of Glyphosate Exposure than Europeans
Americans are more likely than Europeans to be exposed to Monsanto's glyphosate weed killer. That's in large part because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's calculations to determine allowable...
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What the elephant knows about cancer prevention
Elephants are less likely to get cancer than humans, even though they have many more cells. Why? Teams of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of Chicago have separately concluded...
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Will Chemical Safety Law Be Better?
In the coming months, congressional negotiators will try to reconcile two bills aimed at fixing the nation's broken and outdated chemical safety law, the Toxic Substances Control Act. As we've made...
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Quick Tips for Using a Humidifier Safely
Humidifiers are a popular tool to help parents treat problems ranging from dry skin and cracked lips to stuffy noses and a nagging cough. But if they're not used properly, humidifiers can harbor mold...
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The Empty Promise of Farm Subsidy 'Reform' Savings
In 2014, Congress eliminated direct payments to farmers, replacing them with two new subsidy programs known as Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC County) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC). The Congressional...
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Will the Obama Administration Give Cotton Growers a New $10 Billion Subsidy?
The price tag for subsidizing cottonseed turns out to be a whopping $10 billion over the next 10 years. The cotton industry wants to take that big chunk of change out of the pockets of taxpayers who...
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Corn Growers Don’t Need the Corn Ethanol Mandate
The corn ethanol mandate requires refiners to blend more and more ethanol into gasoline. But there is already a “natural” marketplace demand for ethanol. If there were no mandate, gasoline refiners...
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Corn Ethanol Deadlier Than VW Emissions Scam
Volkswagen could be fined up to $90 billion for violating the federal Clean Air Act by jerry-rigging diesel engines to burn cleaner on emissions tests. The added air pollution will cause up to 60...
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Big Business Wins, Taxpayers Lose in Crop Insurance Industry
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Clear Advice on Healthy Eating: Introducing EWG’s New Dietary Guidelines
News outlets around the country covered the Obama administration's release of new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, praising the good, scolding the bad and shining a bright light on the ugly.
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More Ethanol Means More Toxic Water Pollution
Some corn ethanol lobbyists are pushing to triple the amount of ethanol American fuel makers put into gasoline, moving from the current blend, called E10, or 90 percent gasoline and 10 percent corn...
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What Caused Your Child’s Allergic Skin Reaction?
Your child has developed a red, itchy, or sore rash. Your little one may have a case of contact dermatitis, an eczema-like skin condition caused by touching something that triggers an allergic...
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Great Lakes Gull Eggs Contaminated by Non-Stick Chemicals
Perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs – the class of chemicals used in DuPont's Teflon, 3M's Scotchgard and many other products – pollute the bodies of people and animals in every corner of the world. In...
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EWG’s Top 10 Agriculture Stories of 2015
As in past years, EWG asked its staff of scientists, policy analysts and governmental and communications specialists to vote on what they considered the 10 most important stories of 2015 in two...
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EWG’s Top 10 Enviroblog stories of 2015
The EWG staff voted the landmark global climate accord approved on December 12 in Paris as the top environmental story of 2015. In our judgment, the achievement of the Paris pact is that, for the...
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Maryland County Bans Lawn Pesticides — or Does It?
The Montgomery County, Maryland, Council has passed an ordinance banning what it calls “cosmetic pesticides” on private lawns. The devil, however, is in the details. The term “cosmetic” means...
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