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Can we reform farm policies to support healthier diets? The Washington Post's food writer Tamar Haspel discounts the role that subsidies can play in the choices farmers make, noting that subsidies...

One of the leading candidates for Secretary of Agriculture says bringing deep-fat fryers back to our schools isn't about french fries. It's about freedom.

During a sit-down Tuesday with top brass from The New York Times, President-elect Donald Trump told the assembled journalists, columnists and editors that “clean air and ‘crystal clear water' were...

During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump pledged to residents of Flint, Mich., that the lead crisis that poisoned their drinking water “would have never happened if I were president.”

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is one of the most outspoken critics of environmental science and biggest climate change skeptics in Washington.

No natural resource or law protecting our environmental health is immune from the menacing promises hurled on the American people by President-elect Donald Trump and his team.

It's been a busy week for EWG as we launched our new watchdog initiative, Planet Trump, where we'll provide a steady stream of commentary and analysis highlighting the implications President-elect...

When Sid Miller took office as Texas' Agriculture Commissioner last year, his first action was to “grant amnesty” to cupcakes and other sweets sold in his state's schools.

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Our next president thinks asbestos – a carcinogen that kills up to 15,000 Americans a year, with no safe level of exposure – "got a bum rap."

A week before the election, Reuters reported that new cars are more fuel efficient than ever: You might think carmakers would welcome this news of progress toward cutting the fuel emissions that drive...

“Drill, baby, drill!” During her failed bid for vice president in 2008, that was Sarah Palin's crowd-pleasing chant promoting her energy policy. Now the pithy catchphrase – and the former Alaska...

Myron Ebell, head of President-elect Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency transition team, is a notorious denier of global warming whose biography unashamedly notes that activists consider...

When Americans gather to celebrate Thanksgiving next week, we may not agree on the outcome of the election. But we all agree that the food being served should be safe, healthy and clearly labeled. If...

Americans didn't only vote for president and other elected officials last week. Through state and local ballot measures, advocates scored impressive wins on nutrition, animal protection and farm...

During her failed bid for vice president in 2008, that was Sarah Palin's crowd-pleasing chant promoting her energy policy. Now the pithy catchphrase – and the former Alaska governor herself – could...

This week, EWG joined forces with our colleagues at Waterkeeper Alliance again to show how industrial animal farms can wreak havoc on public health and the environment. Through startling aerial...

It's another busy week at EWG. Here's some news you can use from this week.

We close out breast cancer awareness month with insights from one of the leading scientists in the field of breast cancer research, Ruthann Rudel.