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EWG’s News Roundup (1/19): Toyota Won’t Work with Pruitt, Rodan + Fields Caught Misleading Shoppers and More

EWG News Roundup (1/19): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Cell Phones
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG’s News Roundup (12/15): EPA Toxics Nominee Bows Out, Cell Phone Safety in Calif., Pruitt’s “Partnership” with Toyota and More

EWG's News Roundup (12/15): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food
Food

A Lost Opportunity for Americans’ Health and the Environment

Around the world, food production occupies more land than any other human activity (about 40 times the area of all cities and suburbs combined), uses more freshwater than anything else people do and...

Children’s Health
Glyphosate
Food & Water

Dear Food Manufacturers: Stop Polluting Children With Glyphosate

In its latest report on glyphosate residues on common children's foods, EWG found that, like oats and wheat, chickpeas and other beans and lentils come with a dose of Roundup, a weedkiller formerly...
Children’s Health
Midwest
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Energy
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (10/4): PFAS Taints Military Bases, California Adopts Law To Protect People From Lead in Jewelry, and More

EWG News Roundup (10/4): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Food & Water
Food

School Lunches: Where’s the Broccoli?

First Lady Michelle Obama's noble fight against childhood obesity cannot be won unless members of Congress act boldly this spring and vote to give school lunches the healthy makeover that our kids...
Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Study: Certified organic packaged foods contain fewer ingredients linked to negative health effects

Questions persist about just how much healthier organic produce is compared to conventional food, yet until now, no study has systematically considered the differences between organic and non-organic...
Grocery store aisle
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals

What is TCE? Learn about this notorious chemical and the EPA’s proposed ban

The Biden Environmental Protection Agency proposed a long-overdue ban on most uses of trichloroethylene in October. But what is this chemical and why is it concerning?
Research

Paradise Lost

The reality is that the nation's primary prairie and wetlands protection program – the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) – was not designed to meet the environmental challenges being created by record prices for farm commodities. Because the majority of the land in the program is taken out of agricultural production under 10- and 15-year rental agreements with the owners, cropland that had
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

Provision Banning Toxic Firefighting Foam on Military Bases Will Get Senate Vote

The Senate will soon consider a must-pass piece of legislation, including a provision to prohibit the use on military installations of firefighting foam containing the toxic fluorinated chemicals...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food

Big Ag to Food Stamp Recipients: Go On a Diet

Last week was a reminder – if I needed it – of just how out of touch the powerful farm lobby is with the rest of America.
Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (2/3) Pruitt, PFCs in Food, Harvard, Truth-Challenged White House and More

Holy smokes, what a week. It began with reports from EWG and others showing food wrappers from several top fast food chains were contaminated with toxic PFCs. The Senate broke its own rules to force a...

Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water

Chesapeake Bay Program Will Get Highest Level of Funding Ever

One year ago, President Obama signed an executive order directing the federal government to take the lead in the faltering effort to control the pollution fouling Chesapeake Bay. The President said he...
Food & Water
Water
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Pollution
Toxic Algae
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

This Fourth of July, You’ll See 70 Percent More Algae Outbreaks Than Last Year

Over the Fourth of July holiday, many of us love to beat the heat in a favorite lake, pond or river. But this year, vacationers from coast to coast will have to look out for a potentially record...

Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

PFAS Amendments to House Defense Bill Would Monitor Contamination and Speed Cleanup

Amendments proposed Tuesday to the House version of a must-pass defense bill would dramatically expand efforts to monitor and clean up contamination of the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS.

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

Mapping the PFAS Contamination Crisis: New Data Show 610 Sites in 43 States

The known extent of contamination of American communities with the toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate, with no end in sight. As of March 2019, at least 610...
Food & Water
Food

Child Nutrition Law's First Steps

In mid-December, as millions of American school children were eagerly anticipating their holiday break of sleeping late and no homework, President Obama signed into law the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids...
COVID-19
Food & Water
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Farm Workers

EWG Statement on USDA Rule for the Coronavirus Food Protection Program

Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a $19 billion COVID-19 farm and food relief initiative, including $16 billion in direct payments to farmers. These new payments come on top of at...

Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

EWG Calls on Justice Department to Investigate Pruitt’s Potentially Misleading Statements to Senate Environment Panel

The Environmental Working Group urged the Department of Justice today to investigate whether Scott Pruitt, President Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, made false or...

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (3/15): Asbestos in Cosmetics, 100% Renewables Is Closer Than You Think and More

EWG News Roundup (3/15): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation
Food & Water
Food
Food

Why The Farm Bill Matters

It's a huge and comprehensive piece of legislation that drives federal spending and policies on agriculture, nutrition and conservation programs. In just one year – 2010 – farm bill programs spent $96...
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (3/1): Monsanto Weedkiller in Pasta and Pizza, Coal Lobbyist Confirmed To Head EPA and More

EWG News Roundup (3/1): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

Report: Ex-Koch Executive Put in Key Role Over EPA’s PFAS Plan

A former chemical and fossil fuel industry executive who recently oversaw the anti-environmental agenda of the Koch brothers is now in charge of the Trump administration's plan to address the crisis...

Food & Water
Food
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Bill to ban ‘forever chemicals’ from food packaging would eliminate major source of exposure

A bill introduced today in Congress would ban the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS from food packaging, an avoidable source of exposure to the harmful substances.