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EWG News Roundup (7/5): Lead Contaminates California Schools, Billions To Bail Out Nuke Energy and More
EWG News Roundup (7/5): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Is Your Drinking Water Safe?
How many times a day do you drink water? Cook with it? Brush your teeth with it? Offer some to your children?
Trump’s Toxic Wake: 10 Ways the EPA Has Made Life More Hazardous
From the beginning, the Trump administration has aggressively slashed environmental regulations. A New York Times analysis identified 100 environmental protections that have been reversed or are in...
Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Detected in Drinking Water at N.Y. Army Installations
Drinking water supplies at seven Army installations in New York state are contaminated with elevated levels of toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to newly released Department of...
Behind Europe's Apple Chemical Ban
Those pyramids of apples in the produce section of supermarkets year-round may look fresh, but sometimes they're not. Apples are harvested once a year, in the autumn. Growers apply a mixture of...
Report: Suspected Carcinogen from Farm Runoff Fouls Drinking Water Across Rural America
Drinking water supplies for millions of Americans in farm country are contaminated with a suspected cancer-causing chemical from fertilizer, according to a new report by the Environmental Working...
Public Interest Groups on WHO's decision on Glyphosate
We the undersigned organizations strongly urge the Environmental Protection Agency to weigh heavily the decision last week by the World Health Organization to categorize glyphosate (trade name...
Under the Radar
CDC finds toxic weedkiller in 87 percent of children tested
Map: Florence Drenched Thousands of North Carolina CAFOs and Animal Waste Pits
Lead Detected in Drinking Water of Almost 1 in 5 California Schools
Almost 20 percent of California's K-12 school campuses serve drinking water with detectable levels of lead.
EWG News Roundup (7/27): Carcinogenic TCE in Tap Water, Food Additives to Avoid and More
News Roundup (7/27): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EPA Must Act Now to Protect Public from Teflon Chemical in Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency was first alerted 15 years ago to contamination of drinking water by PFOA, a chemical used to make Teflon that has since been linked to cancer, hormone disruption...
Using Private Wells: A Drinking Water Safety Guide
If you're one of the 44 million people relying on a private well for drinking water, here's what you should know and do to make sure your water is safe.
Nitrate Contamination of Drinking Water
The California Water Wars: Water Flowing to Farms, Not Fish
How Safe Is the Water in Your Kids’ School?
Whether your children's school plans to reopen in the next few weeks or in coming months, parents, teachers and staff already have their hands full preparing for the continuity of education and...
EWG Report: Small Rural Communities Bear Costly Burden of Nitrate Pollution of Tap Water
Tap water across the nation is contaminated with an agricultural pollutant linked to cancer, and the problem is worst in small communities that can least afford to fix it, according to a new EWG...
EWG Investigation: Across Farm Country, Nitrate Pollution of Drinking Water for More Than 20 Million Americans Is Getting Worse
In much of America's farm country, nitrate contamination of drinking water, largely caused by polluted runoff from crop fields, poses a serious health risk – and the problem is getting worse...
More Than 40 Percent of U.S. Schools Fail to Test for Lead in Drinking Water
Despite heightened concern in recent years about lead in drinking water, a troubling new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that more than 40 percent of the nation's schools...
Report: Shell and Dow Hid Cancer-Causing 'Garbage' in Pesticide, Contaminating Drinking Water for Millions in California
Our Soil and Water Needs a Safety Net Too
EWG’s News Roundup (11/3): Greener Homes, Taxpayer Dollars Flow to Industrial Farms and More
EWG's News Roundup (11/3): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG Urges EPA: Protect Public from Chromium-6 in Tap Water
EWG submits comments on EPA's IRIS program draft toxicological review of hexavalent chromium.