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Heading into the holiday season, there was some good news out of the EPA. The agency listed the first batch of toxic chemicals it will tackle, which includes asbestos. Also this week, EWG took part in...
Beginning this Friday, EWG will post news you can use – some of the recent media coverage featuring our content and spokespeople.
It's been a busy week for EWG as we launched our new watchdog initiative, Planet Trump, where we'll provide a steady stream of commentary and analysis highlighting the implications President-elect...
A ridiculous and completely unofficial website that tracks made-up holidays says Monday is Brazilian Blowout Day. The National Day Calendar suggests you celebrate by going to a hair salon for a...
For many of us, Labor Day is one of the last hurrahs of the summer. And it's a busy travel weekend, with roughly 35 million Americans taking a getaway.
Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
When it comes to your drinking water, getting a passing grade from the federal government may not be good enough.
When you think of chloroform, your thoughts may drift to faint memories of 1970s television shows in which a villain knocks out their victim with chloroform-soaked cloth.
Michael Dourson, President Trump's nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency, has made his career being paid by polluters – like Monsanto, Dow, DuPont and the Koch...
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...
Before he became President Trump's nominee to oversee the safety of pesticides sprayed on our food, Michael Dourson sought to weaken pesticide safety standards for Monsanto and Dow.
Here's yet another dangerous chemical that Michael Dourson, President Trump's nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency, helped greenwash: diacetyl, a food additive...
Parents and caregivers know that applying a safe, effective sunscreen to children is one key to protecting them from sun damage. Sunscreen should never be your child's first line of defense against...
Plastics are cheap, useful and ubiquitous. They're also made almost entirely from mixtures of synthetic chemicals that don't occur in nature.
Where are your child's crayons? In a drawer, a shoebox, a backpack or an arts and crafts kit? Wherever they are, they're probably among your child's favorite playthings.
With its back up against the wall, U.S. agribusiness is making a last-ditch effort to keep its grip on a pesticide used on fruits and veggies, which is so nasty even the smallest amounts lower kids'...
No natural resource or law protecting our environmental health is immune from the menacing promises hurled on the American people by President-elect Donald Trump and his team.
Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, claims that as Oklahoma attorney general he achieved a “historic agreement” to clean up chicken manure...
Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, now chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, opposed the 2014 Farm Bill because of the projected cost of new farm subsidies. At the time, Roberts said the bill was a...
A poultry waste lagoon subject to Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's oversight overflowed after a storm in early 2015, fouling nearby creeks and lakes with chicken manure.
