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Defense Bill Fails To Address PFAS Pollution at Oregon Military Bases
A defense spending bill passed by the Senate today excludes key provisions designed to reduce ongoing releases of the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, remove PFAS from tap water sources and...
Defense Bill Fails To Address PFAS Pollution in New Jersey
The defense bill passed by the Senate today excludes key provisions designed to reduce ongoing releases of the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, remove PFAS from tap water and clean up legacy...
Landmark BPA Study Finds Troubling Health Effects at FDA’s ‘Safe’ Levels
A groundbreaking new study, the first to test what happens in people immediately after they are exposed to bisphenol A, or BPA, shows that levels at which the federal government states is “safe” and...
Bipartisan Congressional Task Force To Take on Growing PFAS Contamination Crisis
EWG today applauded Reps. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) for establishing a new bipartisan task force in the House of Representatives to address the urgent drinking water...
Top 5 Reasons to Oppose the DARK Act
Americans overwhelmingly want the right to know whether the food they are purchasing has been made with genetically modified ingredients, a right that consumers in 64 other countries already have.
USDA Chief's School Lunch Menu: White Bread With Extra Salt and Sugar
Last month Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced a rollback of nutrition standards for school lunches that have been successfully implemented for the last five years. The move threatens to...
EPA’s Proposed PFAS Guidance Falls Far Short on Public Health Protection and Cleanup
The draft interim recommendations for cleanup of the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS, announced today by Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, are a woefully inadequate...
CDC finds high levels of ‘forever chemical' PFHxS in blood
EWG’s ‘Just Add Lemons’ Presents Mother’s Day Brunch
With Mother's Day quickly approaching, EWG has curated a brunch menu from “Just Add Lemons: 100+ Recipes for Family and Home from EWG and Friends.” Celebrate your mother, grandmother or another...
AP: Army Wants Nearly $300K To Disclose PFAS Contaminant Data at Military Bases
The Army is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars to fulfill a public records request from EWG seeking data on military sites where drinking water sources are contaminated with toxic fluorinated...
What New Food Serving Sizes Mean for Your Kids
Last month the Food and Drug Administration announced new changes to the Nutrition Facts Label we see printed on packaged foods.
Butch, Sundance & BPA
You remember the final scene: Butch and Sundance, hopelessly cornered and surrounded by the Bolivian army, are stubbornly confident that they'll escape to make their way to sanctuary in Australia. It...
EWG Applauds Passage of Amendment to Designate PFAS as “Hazardous Substances”
The House of Representatives today approved an amendment to designate PFAS as “hazardous substances” under CERCLA, the Superfund law.
‘Forever chemicals’ contamination found at 59 more Defense Department sites
EWG News Roundup (6/15): Senate Panel Approves Bipartisan Farm Bill, Pressure Mounts on HHS to Publish Suppressed PFAS Study and More
News Roundup (6/15): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Food and Farm Leaders Plan Congressional Scorecard
National leaders in food and farm policy have taken steps to form a new nonprofit organization that for the first time will hold lawmakers in Congress accountable for their votes on a broad range of...
Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay
EWG Asked People If They’d Like To Eat Cereal with Monsanto’s Weedkiller in It.
Defense Bill Fails To Address PFAS Pollution in Kentucky
A defense spending bill passed by the Senate today excludes key provisions designed to reduce ongoing releases of the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, remove PFAS from tap water and clean up...
Glyphosate Contamination in Food Goes Far Beyond Oat Products
UPDATE: Little Progress from Trump’s EPA on Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’
EWG News Roundup (8/31): Trump’s Farm Bail Out, Back-to-School Tips and More
EWG News Roundup (8/31): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend:
It’s Time To Ban PFAS from Food Packaging
The recent discovery of fluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, in food packaging should serve as a reminder that our diets are as big a source as drinking water of these toxic compounds in our bodies.
