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Is EPA Destroying Rural America?

Today, the House Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing on how the “regulatory agenda” of the Environmental Protection Agency is destroying rural America.

Obama Offers $18 Billion Fix to Bloated Crop Insurance Program

This week, President Obama released a 2017 fiscal year budget proposal that would save taxpayers more than $18 billion and better protect America's land and water.

What The Elephant Knows About Cancer Prevention

Elephants are less likely to get cancer than humans, even though they have many more cells. Why? Teams of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of Chicago have separately concluded...

Mars Pledges To Drop Artificial Coloring

Mars Inc., the multinational corporation that produces iconic candies such as M&Ms, Milky Way and Snickers, announced last week that it will phase out artificial colors from its products over the next...

Insurance by Any Other Name…?

Like most Americans, I have firsthand experience on how insurance is supposed to work. I've had auto insurance since the end of high school when I got the keys to my first car. And I've paid for...

Five Kid-Approved Tips for Healthier Valentine’s Day Parties

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and let's face it: your kids will eat a lot of sugary treats come February 14. Thanks to school, team and neighborhood parties, many kids spend Valentine's...

More Than 60 EWG VERIFIED® Products – and Counting!

Our verification program was created to help shoppers quickly and easily identify products that meet our strictest health and transparency standards. The program is gaining momentum and awareness, and...

UC Berkeley Scientist Developing Method to Identify Chemicals That May Raise Breast Cancer Risk

Megan Schwarzman, an environmental health researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, has come up with a novel approach to screening synthetic chemicals and pollutants for their potential to...

EWG for the Win: Tips for Your Healthiest Super Bowl Yet

The big game is right around the corner and millions of Americans are making winning game plans for a Super Bowl party packed with quintessential football fare. Super Bowl Sunday comes in second only...

Preventing Cancer is Not A Game of Chance

Today is World Cancer Day, a perfect time to raise awareness and spur action in the fight against cancer. It's a day to reflect on a very important question: What is the main cause of cancer? Is it...

Cock-a-doodle-do! Crowing About False Farm Bill Savings

The House Committee on Agriculture, in a recent letter to the budget committee, boasts of being “proud to have made a significant contribution to deficit reduction with the passage of the (2014) farm...

Preventing Cancer is Not a Game of Chance

Today is World Cancer Day, a perfect time to raise awareness and spur action in the fight against cancer. It's a day to reflect on a very important question: What is the main cause of cancer? Is it...

Americans At Greater Risk Of Glyphosate Exposure than Europeans

Americans are more likely than Europeans to be exposed to Monsanto's glyphosate weed killer. That's in large part because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's calculations to determine allowable...

What the elephant knows about cancer prevention

Elephants are less likely to get cancer than humans, even though they have many more cells. Why? Teams of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of Chicago have separately concluded...

Will Chemical Safety Law Be Better?

In the coming months, congressional negotiators will try to reconcile two bills aimed at fixing the nation's broken and outdated chemical safety law, the Toxic Substances Control Act. As we've made...

Quick Tips for Using a Humidifier Safely

Humidifiers are a popular tool to help parents treat problems ranging from dry skin and cracked lips to stuffy noses and a nagging cough. But if they're not used properly, humidifiers can harbor mold...

The Empty Promise of Farm Subsidy 'Reform' Savings

In 2014, Congress eliminated direct payments to farmers, replacing them with two new subsidy programs known as Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC County) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC). The Congressional...

Will the Obama Administration Give Cotton Growers a New $10 Billion Subsidy?

The price tag for subsidizing cottonseed turns out to be a whopping $10 billion over the next 10 years. The cotton industry wants to take that big chunk of change out of the pockets of taxpayers who...

Corn Growers Don’t Need the Corn Ethanol Mandate

The corn ethanol mandate requires refiners to blend more and more ethanol into gasoline. But there is already a “natural” marketplace demand for ethanol. If there were no mandate, gasoline refiners...

Corn Ethanol Deadlier Than VW Emissions Scam

Volkswagen could be fined up to $90 billion for violating the federal Clean Air Act by jerry-rigging diesel engines to burn cleaner on emissions tests. The added air pollution will cause up to 60...

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