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Five Things FDA and EPA Didn’t Tell You About Seafood Safety

Earlier this month the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released updated consumer guidelines on fish consumption. The two agencies said that because of the important developmental and health benefits, pregnant and breastfeeding women, those who might become pregnant and young children should eat 8-to-12 ounces (2-3 servings) a week of fish varieties that
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

Bed Bugs? Chemical Pesticides Aren’t the Answer

The fact is that not only can chemical pesticides harm kids, both during and after application, but they're also not the best answer to bed bug infestation.

Children’s Health
Household & Consumer Products

Coming Soon to a Store Near You: EWG VERIFIED® Hair Care

You'd love to keep harmful chemicals out of your family's bodies and home, but that can turn your shopping trips into even more of a production. It can be a tough decision for busy parents: Make the...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

A Year’s Worth of (Achievable) Resolutions To Protect Your Family’s Health

“Lose weight.” “Exercise.” “Save money.” Those annual post-holiday, guilt-fueled mantras aren't only tiresome but are also usually doomed to fail. Eighty percent of resolutions fail just weeks into...
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (5/25): Best Sunscreens to Buy, Teflon-Like Chemicals in Water of 110 Million Americans and More

News Roundup (5/25): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

Dioxin

After nearly 30 years of delays caused by pressure from chemicals and defense industries, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward on setting a safety limit for exposure to dioxin, a ubiquitous, highly toxic and carcinogenic chemical that people of all ages ingest daily with their food – starting at a mother's breast.
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (1/25): Unilever Takes a Huge Step Toward Ingredient Transparency, Bipartisan Reps Form PFAS Task Force and More

EWG News Roundup (1/25): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (1/17): Asbestos in Children’s Toys, Nitrate in Minnesota’s Drinking Water, Cosmetic Safety Reform in California and More

EWG News Roundup (1/17): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Farming & Agriculture
Factory Farms
Farm Pollution
Food & Farm Workers
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

6 Ways the Biden Administration Should Protect Food and Farm Workers From Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic – worsened by the Trump administration's woefully anemic response – has taken the lives of more than 300 food and farm workers and sickened tens of thousands more, turning the...

Food & Water
Food
Water
Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Farm Pollution

Minnesota Legislator Who Believes ‘Water Cleans Itself’ Defends Potato Giant’s Irrigation Expansion in Fragile Pineland Sands

From November 2019 to February 2020, Minnesota environmental regulators met several times behind closed doors to fabricate a rationale for not holding the nation's largest potato grower accountable...
Research

Farm Subsidies in California:

Although cotton and rice constitute a tiny portion of California's nation-leading farm production, those two crops – rather than the state's vast harvest of fruits and vegetables – continue to get the lion's share of federal farm subsidies in the state, according to the latest update of the Environmental Working Group's Farm Subsidy Database.
Energy
California

Cuomo Administration Failure to Disclose Drilling Documents Prompts EWG Lawsuit

The Environmental Working Group Monday sued the administration of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for documents that would show how the state has drafted its plan to permit high volume hydraulic fracturing...
Cell Phones

Ruling Backs San Francisco on Transparency for Cell Phone Buyers

U.S. District Judge William Alsup last week gave the green light to city authorities to require that retailers distribute fact sheets about cell phone radiation to their customers.
Research

Drilling Around the Law

In a worst case scenario, the petroleum distillates used in a single well could contain enough benzene to contaminate more than 100 billion gallons of drinking water to unsafe levels, according to drilling company disclosures in New York State and published studies. (NYDEC DSGEIS 2009, Pagnotto 1961) That is more than 10 times as much water as the state of New York uses in a single day. (NYDEC
Energy
Midwest

EPA Denial of Ethanol Mandate Waiver Will Hurt Farmers and Consumers

Leading environmental and anti-hunger organizations – including Environmental Working Group, Clean Air Task Force and ActionAid USA – said today that the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to...
Lead
Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics

Popular Lipsticks Contain Dangerous Levels of Lead

U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers have detected lead in 400 brands of lipstick tested by the agency. At least two popular brands had amounts of the neurotoxin above the threshold the state...

Nanomaterials
Cosmetics

Hundreds of Personal Care Products Contain Poorly Studied Nanoscale Materials

EWG's analysis of 25,000 personal care product labels found that more than 250 products on the market today contain one or more of 57 different types of nano-scale or micronized ingredients identified...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

EPA Identifies Group of Highly Toxic Chemicals for Risk Review

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to conduct comprehensive safety reviews of 83 chemicals common in consumer goods and manufacturing and to give top priority to seven...

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

EPA Lists Dry Cleaning Chemical Likely Carcinogen

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has declared tetrachloroethylene, or PERC, a chemical used by many dry cleaners, a “likely human carcinogen.”

Cleaning Supplies
Chemical Policy

EWG’s Online Guide to Healthy Cleaning

Some household cleaning products can expose unsuspecting users to toxic substances linked to short- and long-term health problems, including asthma, allergic reactions and even cancer.

Photo of a person cleaning.
California

EWG Responds to Report that New York is About to Approve Fracking

Environmental Working Group Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt issued the following statement on the Albany Times-Union's Aug. 4, 2012 report that the Cuomo administration will soon approve hydraulic...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

High Crop Prices, Insurance Subsidies Trigger Destruction of Millions of Acres of Wildlife Habitat

Responding to high crop prices and unlimited insurance, growers plowed under more than 23 million acres of grassland, shrub land and wetlands in order to plant commodity crops between 2008 and 2011, a...

A Trojan Horse More Costly Than TARP

Legislation that costs more than the Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as TARP, doesn't stand a chance in the U.S. House of Representatives. So it is no surprise that some of the same agriculture...
Food & Water

Senate Votes to Improve Protections for Drinking Water, Soil, and Land

Environmental Working Group issued the following statement on the passage of Sen. Saxby Chambliss' R-Ga., amendment to relink conservation compliance to crop insurance premium subsidies.