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Food and Chemical Companies Spent Big in 2014 to Defeat GMO Labeling
Food and biotechnology companies spent $63.6 million in 2014 alone to oppose mandatory labeling of genetically modified food ingredients, or GMOs, according to a new analysis by EWG.
Agricultural Pollution Drives Up Water Costs
Clean, cheap water from your tap might soon be a thing of the past.
Tests Find High Levels of Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water at McChord AFB, Ft. Lewis
Drinking water supplies at two Washington state Army installations are contaminated with extremely high levels of the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to Department of Defense data...
UPDATE: Exposing Fields of Filth
Is Natural Gas Toxic in Water?
As drilling for natural gas pushes more and more into shale formations in populated areas, the problem of gas bubbling into drinking water is occurring with increasing frequency. Several homeowners...
EWG and Waterkeeper Alliance: Poultry Factory Farms Disproportionately Threaten Black, Native American and Latino People in North Carolina
The predominantly Black, Native American and Latino residents of three eastern North Carolina counties now live with 30 million more chickens and turkeys than they did eight years ago, according to a...
Food Lobby Spends $101 Million in 2015 to Avert GMO Labeling
EWG'S 2011 Shopper's Guide Helps Cut Consumer Pesticide Exposure
Environmental Working Group has released the seventh edition of its Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce with updated information on 53 fruits and vegetables and their total pesticide loads. EWG...
GAO Knocks EPA Tap Water Monitoring
EPA to require tap water tests for unregulated contaminants
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a nationwide plan to require water utilities to test drinking water for 28 contaminants currently unregulated by federal law, including six...
Improving School Food: Do It Now or Pay the Price Later
EWG News Roundup (5/24): EWG’s 2019 Guide to Sunscreens, EWG Board Member Michelle Pfeiffer Lobbies for Safe Cosmetics and More
EWG News Roundup (5/24): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Trump EPA Dismisses Risks of Notorious Carcinogen Widespread in Tap Water and Consumer Products
The cancer-causing chemical 1,4-dioxane, which contaminates the drinking water of millions of Americans and is found in personal care products and other consumer goods, is “not an unreasonable risk”...
Environmental group: Target U.S. aid at most polluted waters in Iowa
EWG Investigation: In California’s Majority-Latino Communities, 5.25 Million Drink Tap Water With Nitrate Above Federal Limit
In California's majority-Latino communities, 5.25 million people drink tap water contaminated with nitrate at levels at or above the federal limit, according to an Environmental Working Group analysis...
Corporate spending to fight GMO labeling skyrockets
EWG Calls on FDA to Reform Nutrition Facts Labels to Address Added Sugars and Over-fortification of Food
EWG’s Most Popular Stories of 2018 – and Some You May Have Missed
EPA Regulates Rocket Fuel in Tap Water
EWG: ‘Brockovich’ Carcinogen Found in Tap Water of 200 Million Americans
Under an Environmental Protection Agency program, from 2013 to 2015, local water utilities took more than 60,000 water samples and found chromium-6 in more than 75 percent of samples. The EPA's tests...
Report: Toxins From Algae Outbreaks Plague Hundreds of Lakes in 48 States
Federal and state tests have found dangerous toxins, common in outbreaks of blue-green algae, in hundreds of lakes, rivers and other bodies of water nationwide – yet authorities are doing little to...
Cancer-Causing Arsenic Contaminates Tap Water for 70 Million Americans
Drinking water supplies for 70 million Americans in 48 states are contaminated with arsenic at concentrations above the level scientists say increases the risk of cancer, according to nationwide test...
Drinking Water at Arizona Army Facilities Contaminated with Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’
Drinking water supplies at seven Army installations in Arizona are contaminated with the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to newly released Department of Defense data obtained by EWG...
Decades After Paint and Gas Bans, Kids Still Exposed to Dangerous Levels of Lead
