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FDA test results again downplay risks of ‘forever chemicals’ in food
EPA’s Wheeler Keeps Brain-Damaging Pesticide Legal for Use on Foods Kids Eat
Farmers can keep spraying fruits and vegetables with a pesticide shown to harm a child's brain even at low levels of exposure, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency said today.
Most U.S. Apples Coated with Chemical Banned in Europe
A chemical widely used on non-organic American apples was banned in the European Union in 2012 because its makers could not show it did not pose a risk to human health, according to a new analysis by...
Trump, Pruitt Slash EPA Staff to 30-Year Lows as Drinking Water, Climate Change Crises Mount
WASHINGTON – By October of this year, the staff at the Environmental Protection Agency will be reduced to levels not seen since the Reagan administration, 30 years ago, according to a report by Brady...
Could Farm Policy Support Healthy Diets?
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...
Rural Iowans Feel the Brunt of Unregulated Ag Pollution
EWG News Roundup (5/17): Cover Crops Expand Across the Corn Belt, Billion Dollar Monsanto Ruling and More
EWG News Roundup (5/17): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
‘Forever chemicals’ contamination at Defense Department sites threatens Chesapeake Bay fish
Healthy Food Gets Short Shrift
Duke University Study: N.C. Residents Living Near Large Hog Farms Have Elevated Disease, Death Risks
Trump Embraces the Ag-Right
When Trump appears before the Farm Bureau today, he will be not speaking to America's farmers – he'll be preaching to his base. Photo courtesy of AP Photo
Friends and Foes of Organic Food
The Alliance for Food and Farming, which is run out of a P.O. box in Watsonville, Calif., claims to extol the health benefits of consuming both conventional and organic produce and maintains that its...
Big Ag Doesn’t Want You to Know About Pesticides on Produce
Nothing sets off the chemical agriculture industry like questioning its heavy dependence on toxic pesticides. Every year, when EWG releases our Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, the Alliance...
Cancer Risk is Cause for EPA to Act on GMO Weed Killer
The Environmental Working Group joined a number of other environmental and consumer rights organizations today to ask the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop the rollout of Dow AgroSciences'...
California proclaims October Children’s Environmental Health Month
Leftover Trump EPA rule leaves millions at risk from lead-tainted tap water
EWG statement on EPA inspector general report urging scientific integrity
EWG response to EPA’s review of chromium-6 health effects
Going, going, gone? EWG finds glyphosate levels drop in oat-based products
EWG News Roundup (8/13): Schools’ Tap Water in the Time of COVID-19, Nitrate Pollution in Minnesota, a Twitter Battle with BP and More
On Monday, EWG released an article on government officials' inadequate guidance about reopening schools safely as the coronavirus pandemic seems to worsen.
Breakfast With a Dose of Roundup?
In a First, San Francisco May Require Disclosure of Antibiotics in Meat
The overuse of antibiotics to raise livestock is creating superbugs, bacteria resistant to antibiotic drugs such as penicillin. San Francisco could soon become the first U.S. city to require major...
EWG Takes a Stand on Food Marketed for Children
EWG strongly supports the proposed nutrition principles of the Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children.
At Industry’s Behest, EPA Caves on Banning ‘A Civil Action’ Carcinogen, Lays Ground to Downplay Potential Birth Defects
After intense lobbying by the chemical industry, last week the Environmental Protection Agency signaled plans to delay or scrap proposed bans on some uses of the drinking water contaminant made...
