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Florida’s Beaches and Waterways Devastated by Unprecedented Algae Outbreaks
Broad Coalition Opposes Hill Efforts to Deny Consumers the Right to Know
In a letter to Congressional leaders sent this week, nearly 300 environmental advocacy, farming and fishing groups and food companies voiced strong opposition to a plan to tack a provision onto the...
Monsanto, GMOs and Cancer Risk
The news from the world's leading cancer experts that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to humans” provides the smoking gun that should make it simple for the Obama administration to require GMO...
Big Food’s “DARK Act” Introduced in Congress
Legislation introduced today by Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) - christened the “Deny Americans the Right-to-Know” or DARK act by critics - would block any federal or state action to require...
FDA Plan For Livestock Antibiotics Phase-Out Is Too Little, Too Late
The federal Food and Drug Administration's call for the livestock industry to voluntarily stop dosing healthy animals with antibiotics is “is long overdue and inadequate”, Heather White, executive...
Crisis of Fluorinated Chemical Pollution Keeps Spreading, With No End in Sight
Monsanto's Glyphosate GMO Weed-killer Is Pervasive, GMO Labels Nonexistent
Reuters reported today that recent tests by private labs have found residues of the weed killer glyphosate in samples of honey, soy sauce, infant formula and even breast milk.
Dingell, Kildee and Upton Author Bipartisan Bill To Classify PFAS Chemicals as Superfund Toxics
Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) introduced legislation Monday to classify the fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS as hazardous substances under the...
New Findings on Peanut Allergy Prevention
Eating peanuts during infancy – rather than avoiding them – may be the key to preventing long-term peanut allergies in children. The benefit of early exposure persists even if kids later take a year...
Cleaning Up Chesapeake Bay: One Company Steps Up
News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (Feb. 24)
Last Friday, in a near party-line vote, the Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt as the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator. A swell of controversy surrounded the decision, with an Oklahoma...
Bipartisan Senate Bill Introduced To Classify PFAS Chemicals as Superfund Toxics
Senate legislation introduced today with strong bipartisan support would classify the fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS as hazardous substances under the Superfund toxics law, an important step...
New Bipartisan Senate Legislation Aims to Spur Federal Response to PFAS Crisis
Five Essential Facts About Pesticides on Fruits and Vegetables
A healthy diet begins with lots of fruits and vegetables, but some of your family's favorites may contain startling amounts of harmful pesticides.
Kudos to Companies Pledging to “Remove” ADA
In the ensuing furor other producers of commercial baked goods said they too were abandoning ADA.
Forbes and Monsanto: A Match Made in H*ll
Healthy Food, California Get Short Shrift in Farm Bill
Scores of Baked Goods Contain Possible Cancer-Causing Additive
A new analysis by Environmental Working Group has found potassium bromate, a possible cancer-causing food additive, in more than 86 breads and other baked goods, including such well-known products as...
Rate Your Plate Series: EWG's Food Scores Gives Snapshot of America's Food Landscape
As EWG's Food Scores: Rate Your Plate reveals in detail, popular brands in many categories are not so much food as they are conveyances for excessive amounts of sugar, salt and preservatives.
Rate Your Plate Series: EWG's Food Scores Gives Snapshot of America's Food Landscape
As EWG's Food Scores: Rate Your Plate reveals in detail, popular brands in many categories are not so much food as they are conveyances for excessive amounts of sugar, salt and preservatives.
EWG’s News Roundup (10/27): Chemical Industry Lackey Approved by Senate Committee, Competing Cosmetics Reform Bills and Rising Organic Demand
EWG's News Roundup (10/27): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
California’s Fracking Wastewater Full of Toxic Chemicals
The recent discovery of high levels of benzene in wastewater from oil and gas fracking operations in California turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg. An extensive review of a year-old state...
Consumers Deserve to Know the Facts about Antibiotics and Meat
The federal Food and Drug Administration has posted a statement on its website criticizing the Environmental Working Group's report, Superbugs Invade American Supermarkets, published April 15. The...
Bush Administration Moved to Okay Teflon Pollution
