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Senate Environmental Champions: Making the Best of Bad Chemistry
Much more than a long memory is needed these days to recall the golden age of GOP environmentalism. A feat of imagination is required.
Boondoggle: “Prevented Planting” Insurance Plows Up Wetlands, Wastes $Billions
A new EWG report released this week pulls back the curtain on the billions of taxpayer dollars that get wasted every year through the “prevented planting” federal crop insurance program that...
Monsanto’s and Dow’s Herbicides = More Toxic Exposures for Farmworkers
More than 90 percent of Americans want GMOs to be labeled because they want the right to know what's in their food. One important reason to be informed is that growing GMOs has led to a massive...
Eight Steps to Real Chemical Reform
As two Congressional committees develop legislation to update the nation's broken toxic chemicals law, it's good to remember what real reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 should look...
Food Multinationals Behind Attacks on Dr. Oz and Consumer Rights
The front group of all front groups, the American Council on Science and Health, has not disclosed its donor list since the early 1990's.
Kraft’s Mac & Cheese Gets an Overhaul at Last
Kraft's mac and cheese boxed dinner marks an essential part of childhood for many Americans. For some of us, it just about defines “comfort food.”
New Cosmetics Framework Provides a Path Forward
Moving to address a gaping void in the nation's system of consumer protections, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) today (April 16) filed a bill – the “Personal Care...
EWG’s #FightForChemicalSafety Campaign
There is Nano-WHAT in My Food?
Are intentionally engineered nanoparticles being added to our food? We don't know for sure – and federal food regulators aren't helping us find out the truth.
What Would It Take for the EPA to Test Every Major Chemical for Safety?
As the Congressional debate over how to fix the failed Toxic Substances Control Act heats up, we have to ask: What would it take for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to assess the safety of...
How American Industry Skips Some Chemical Safety Checks
American industry often avoids the federal government's chemical safety checks in an unexpected way, by relying on chemicals “grandfathered” by the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, according to a...
Toxic Cadmium in Jewelry: States Lead in Protecting Kids
In the absence of adequate federal regulation of hazardous chemicals, the states have stepped up to protect public health and the environment.
Monsanto's Glyphosate GMO Weed-killer Is Pervasive, GMO Labels Nonexistent
Reuters reported today that recent tests by private labs have found residues of the weed killer glyphosate in samples of honey, soy sauce, infant formula and even breast milk.
Top Problems with New House Chemical Proposal
Consumers rightly expect that the chemicals used in everyday products are safe.
Opposition To Industry Chemical Bill Continues to Build
Medical professionals, scientists, states attorneys general, legal scholars, and public interest organizations are all speaking up against the Udall-Vitter Toxic Substances Control Act reform bill (S...
Glyphosate Is Spreading Like a Cancer Across the U.S.
The Nail in Corn Ethanol’s Coffin
The renewable fuel standard, the federal law that year after year requires refiners to blend more corn ethanol into gasoline, has caused millions of acres of grasslands to be plowed up and added...
Reality Check: The Real Facts You Should Know About the FACT Act
Fact: Asbestos companies knew the dangers of asbestos for decades, but they put profits before people and continued to sell it.
How State Chemical Safety Policy Shapes The Consumer Market
States have been leading the way when it comes to protecting people from dangerous chemicals.
What The Washington Post and Rep. Pompeo Got Wrong
A Washington Post editorial this week (March 30) came out in support of legislation introduced by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) that would block states from requiring that genetically engineered foods...