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“Last Resort” Antibiotic Threatened by Overuse in Livestock
Wave of Support for School Nutrition Standards
More than 200 national, state and local organizations and dozens of health professionals signed onto a letter declaring their support for an amendment proposed by Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.) to protect...
7 Reasons Your Family May Want To Become Vegetarian
You've likely heard that eating meat and poultry isn't good for your health or the planet. Recent news from Washington may make meat even less palatable: Pork inspections may be taken over by the...
News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (March 10)
Five fatal flaws in EPA’s justification for using toxic weedkiller paraquat
Corn Ethanol: A Lump of Coal in Your Christmas Stocking
In 2007, corn ethanol was offered up as an environmentally friendly alternative to gasoline. But nearly seven years to the day since Congress put it in play, we're still not seeing the benefits. In...
Mercury in Seafood
EWG News Roundup (7/12): PFAS Contamination Crisis Grows as House Passes Critical Cleanup Bill, USDA’s Racist Legacy and More
EWG News Roundup (7/12): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG News Roundup (11/2): Weed Killer Packs Bigger Punch Than Vitamins in Kids' Cereal, Groundbreaking Cellphone Radiation Study and More
What Monsanto Doesn’t Want You To See
When consumers across Europe started campaigning for GMO labeling in the early 1990s, Monsanto released a series of advertisements in support of mandatory GMO labels.
Let's Put Healthy Food on the Agenda -- and in the Curriculum
EWG Commends Whole Foods for Setting Deadline for Labeling GE Foods
Environmental Working Group applauds food retailer Whole Foods Market for its decision to label any foods sold in its U.S. and Canadian stores that contain genetically engineered ingredients by 2018...
Increasing Pollution, Dwindling Options
Sen. Portman Pushes Bill to Gut Government’s Ability to Safeguard Consumers
Today, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, introduced the Senate version of H.R. 5, the Regulatory Accountability Act, which would require endless agency studies and two layers of judicial and Congressional...
EWG News Roundup (2/10): Chemical Disclosures in Cosmetics and Cleaners, False Statements to Congress
Here's some news you can use as you begin your weekend.
Proposed Nutritional Label Will Promote Healthier Diets
The long-overdue changes to the Nutrition Facts label announced today by First Lady Michelle Obama would improve Americans' diets and promote healthier eating, Environmental Working Group said in a...
EWG Investigates: Trump's EPA Pick Unaware Lead is Unsafe at Any Level for Kids
Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay
Congressional chaos imperils critical chemical safety reviews
If anything good came of recent brinkmanship over federal spending, it might be the reminder that large parts of the economy depend on the federal government. Everything from medical research to food...
Corporate Lobbyists Finance Senate Leader of ‘License to Kill’ Bill
One out of every five political donations made to Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc. – chair of a Senate committee expected to vote this week to effectively block new consumer protection rules – came from...
GMO Labeling is About Consumer Choice
Will Coggin, a senior research analyst at the Center for Consumer Freedom, wrote in The Hill last week that “Vermont became the first state to mandate de facto warning labels on genetically improved...
Scott Pruitt Has Literally Made Washington – and America – More Toxic
Mired in multiple scandals of his own making, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt attempted to shift the blame to “toxic” Washington yesterday. Photo courtesy of AP Photos
2004 Industry Study Found Chrome-6 Nationwide
