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How the Defense Spending Bill Vote Could Impact Children’s Health
This year's defense spending bill – the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA – now being considered by Congress, is an unprecedented chance to regulate the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as...
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Kraft-Heinz Rejects Effort To Get Phthalates Out of Mac and Cheese
Food corporation Kraft-Heinz just sent a clear message to parents: Your worries about phthalate contamination in our food chain isn't our problem.
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EWG News Roundup (9/13): Army Sites Plagued With PFAS, Trump Guts Clean Water Rule and More
EWG News Roundup (9/13): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
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Trump Campaign Advisors Receive Over $2 Million in Trade Bailout Payments
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The Science on PFAS: Rebuttal to 3M’s Claims
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EWG News Roundup (9/6): Hurricane Dorian Threatens N.C. Factory Farms, Climate Crisis Takes Center Stage in 2020 Campaign and More
EWG News Roundup (9/6): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
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Tonight’s Climate Town Hall: Crisis Demands Tough Questions, Honest Answers
Tonight's town hall is a forum for 10 Democratic presidential candidates to address the climate crisis. The crisis demands substantive treatment, like that given health care and immigration, not...
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EWG News Roundup (8/30): DuPont and 3M’s Half-Century of PFAS Deception, Monsanto’s Thoughts on Moms and More
EWG News Roundup (8/30): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
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Labor Day Made Fun and Safer With EWG
Does your family head to the beach for Labor Day? Host friends and family for a barbecue? Whatever your particular tradition, EWG has you covered when it comes to marking the end of summer safely and...
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Record-Breaking Number of Algae Outbreaks in 2019
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For Decades, Polluters Knew PFAS Chemicals Were Dangerous But Hid Risks From Public
For nearly 70 years, chemical companies like 3M and DuPont have known that the highly fluorinated chemicals called PFAS build up in our blood. They've known for almost that long that PFAS chemicals...
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CVS Will Remove Harmful Ingredients From Sunscreens
CVS, one of the nation's largest drugstore chains, recently announced it will phase out two common sunscreen ingredients, oxybenzone and octinoxate, from many of its store-brand sun-protection...
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Study: Renewables Pay for Themselves in Health Benefits
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EWG News Roundup (8/23): Big Energy Bends the Truth About Solar, Trump Team Hypocrites on Asbestos and More
EWG News Roundup (8/23): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
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Unpacking the ‘Clean’ Claims Made by 3 Beauty Boxes
I try to stay up to date on the latest beauty trends, especially when they involve products advertised as “clean” or “nontoxic.” Even before my internship with EWG's Healthy Living Science team, I...
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10 Ways Trump Has Undermined Chemical Safety
President Trump toured a Shell chemical plant in Pennsylvania Tuesday, supposedly to promote his economic agenda. According to reports, he went off script quite a bit – but one thing he definitely...
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Update: Trump’s USDA Trade Bailout Flows to City Slickers, a D.C. Lobbyist and ‘Farms’ on Golf Courses
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Dog Deaths Linked to Harmful Algae Blooms
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Keeping Kids Safe from Toxic Algae
Outbreaks of potentially toxic algae are fouling lakes, rivers and other bodies of water across the U.S. Nationally, news reports on algae outbreaks have been on the rise since 2010.
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Toxic Chemicals at School? 8 Important Questions To Ask
When my daughter was in preschool, she told me that instead of washing hands before lunch, the children used hand sanitizer. The thinking behind this was probably that hand sanitizer kills bacteria...
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