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EWG News Roundup (1/6): Kids and Sugar, Avoiding Pesticides and Toxic Teflon

EWG's research on the serious sugar problem in many kids' cereals, published between 2011 and 2014, received renewed attention this week in the media. Other widely covered EWG projects included our...

News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (Jan. 6)

With President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration coming in just two weeks, the final touches of the transition are being put in place. The Agriculture Secretary remains one of the very few slots left...

Trump Must Make Safe Drinking Water for Children, Pregnant Women a 'Huge' Priority

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged that providing “crystal clear, clean water” to all Americans will be a top priority of his administration. To make good on his promise, he should adopt the...

January 2017: Cervical cancer awareness month

Cervical cancer facts First, the good news: the number of women diagnosed with cervical cancer has steadily declined in recent decades, and the majority of women diagnosed with the disease are...

Trump’s Top Regulatory Adviser Juggles Myriad Energy Industry Conflicts of Interest

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed billionaire investor Carl Icahn as his special adviser on regulatory reform.

Trump, Allies in Congress Promise Dirty Water for Mining States

A new rule by the Obama administration will require coal mining corporations to take additional steps to protect drinking water sources and nearby forests from being polluted and damaged during...

News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (Dec. 16)

With this week's nomination of ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical executives for top Trump administration posts, and the former governor of Texas, Rick Perry, tapped to lead the energy department, it's...

In Reversal, EPA Confirms That Fracking Pollutes Drinking Water

The Environmental Protection Agency has just confirmed what communities near many oil and gas production fields have known for years: fracking – the injection of a chemical slurry into drilling sites...

EWG News Roundup (Dec. 9): Black Women’s Cosmetics and Climate Denier to Head EPA

This week was another busy one for folks at EWG. We released a report documenting some troubling facts about cosmetics products marketed to Black women. And we weighed in on President-elect Donald...

News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (Dec. 9)

President-elect Donald Trump's posture and plans for the nation's environmental and public health laws took their most ominous turn yet with the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to...

Big Ag Makes Last-Ditch Effort to Protect Pesticide that Lowers Kids’ IQs

With its back up against the wall, U.S. agribusiness is making a last-ditch effort to keep its grip on a pesticide used on fruits and veggies, which is so nasty even the smallest amounts lower kids'...

Pruitt’s Home State Leads Nation in Pesticide Illnesses and Deaths

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency has a big problem in his home state of Oklahoma – pesticides.

Six Reasons to be Concerned About a Pruitt EPA

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency is Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. The nomination, which must be approved by the Senate, brings real concerns...

Real Reform Needed for Outdated Cosmetics Laws

Every day, people apply cosmetics and other personal care products to their skin and hair. The average American woman uses 12 personal care products a day, exposing herself to 168 different chemicals...

Mercury in Tuna Plummets As Coal-Fired Power Drops

A bit of good news for seafood lovers: Scientists at Stony Brook University recently reported a notable drop in mercury concentrations in bluefin tuna caught in the Gulf of Maine over the past decade.

EWG News Roundup (Dec. 2): EPA Action, the Farm Bill, Food and Toxic Detergents

Heading into the holiday season, there was some good news out of the EPA. The agency listed the first batch of toxic chemicals it will tackle, which includes asbestos. Also this week, EWG took part in...

A Pro-Industry EPA Could Undermine New Chemical Safety Law

By releasing the first 10 chemicals to be reviewed under the new federal chemical safety law, the Environmental Protection Agency reminds us of what's at stake – and how decisions made by the incoming...

Will We Modernize Farm Policy?

In recent years, important bipartisan progress has been made to food policy, including new food safety laws, new rules and incentives for healthier packaged foods, increased access to healthier foods...

Rising Seas Could Inundate Trump's Fla. Resorts

President-elect Donald Trump is skeptical about climate change. But if he's wrong and scientists are right, his Mar-a-Lago mansion and golf resort in Palm Beach, Fla., and other properties bearing his...

Ask an Expert: Your Questions Answered by Curt DellaValle, Ph.D., Senior Scientist

EWG's community has lots of questions about chemicals in consumer products and food, and from time to time we do our best to provide answers.
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