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Lead in Lipstick: More enduring than love?
With Valentine's Day right around the corner, there's a lot of puckering up to be done. But if you're not into lead poisoning, we recommend that you go natural. That's right, ditch the lipstick...
Two toxic chemicals out of the children's toys, hundreds more to go
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, aimed at keeping lead and toxic plastic chemicals called phthalates out of children's toys, went into effect yesterday.
Biofuels, Agriculture and the Environment
Remarks by EWG Midwest Vice-president Craig Cox to the 2009 Kansas Natural Resources Conference. Read the Remarks
Listen up: Kid-Safe Chemicals Act conference call for all
Here at EWG we talk about the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act a lot. Like every day. Sometimes all day. Why? Simple. We think it's time for a new law (the Toxic Substances Control Act that currently regulates...
Breast Cancer Fund study finds strong cancer-chemical link
A new survey of scientific evidence conducted by researchers working with the Breast Cancer Fund makes a persuasive case that the industrialized world's rising breast cancer rate may stem from...
America Needs a True Renewable Energy Policy
A coalition of environmental groups, including EWG, released a comprehensive biofuels platform highlighting new scientific evidence that indicates that biofuel production and use results in a net...
We Oregonians love our public transit
It's no surprise to Enviroblog readers that transportation spending has long been tilted toward highways and away from transit - and commuters have been the losers. In fact, EWG found that between...
Not So Bulletproof
Special to Enviroblog by Don Carr, EWG Press Secretary The notion that proven and clean renewable energy technologies like solar and wind can be the driver for American energy independence took a hit...
On silky hair and toxic humans
If you are exposed to the sun, wind, chemical treatments, heat from blow dryers, chances are, you have dry hair. And if you are like me, you can write a book about the steps you have taken trying to...
Here come the plastics ambassadors!
Good news, everyone! The Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council and the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. are rolling out a new ' plastics ambassador' program. You'll be happy to...
Scientists: Lead contamination in drinking water is never safe.
When are traces of lead in drinking water dangerous? The better question is, when aren't they?
Mercury in your medicine cabinet?
Mercury was on my mind a lot last December, but imagine my surprise to find out it was also in my medicine cabinet!
New study and new dangers of the old toxic Teflon chemical
We suspected this for a while but the new study proves it all - PFOA, the chemical found in Teflon, has dangerous consequences for the reproductive health of women. The UCLA-based team of scientists...
Study links tap water to high lead levels in Washington children
Researchers have found a shockingly high lead levels in the blood of young Washington, D.C. children tested between 2001 and 2004, when the District of Columbia's drinking water was being contaminated...
GAO presses for EPA fix
How many times have you heard senior officials in Washington say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it? So they do nothing. But what if it is broken? So busted up that it's actually dangerous? The U.S...
Let's talk mercury with the experts: In S.F.
With all the recent talk about safe levels of mercury in fish, why not learn more about it from the experts? Join EWG and Earthjustice for a fascinating evening with Dr. Jane Hightower, author of the...
The real problem with fake grass
I suffer every spring in Washington DC because of the smell of the fake grass that surrounds my apartment building, my walk to work, my walk in the park, my walk pretty much anywhere. I am not super...
The call for citizen involvement: It's loud, clear & important
When John F. Kennedy gave his famous "Ask not what your country can do for you" inaugural speech in 1961, I wasn't alive. But I've long loved that line, as do so many others. Not because he stressed...
New studies show heightened toxics risks in newborns
Newborn babies are more intensely exposed than previously documented to contamination by bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen and ubiquitous plastic component, according to two new studies...
The value of clean water
Agricultural pollutants affect drinking water quality nationwide Economic losses caused by nutrient pollution of U.S. freshwaters are felt by people all around the country, according to the policy...