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EWG news roundup (5/13): Crop insurance costs skyrocket, EWG launches investigative journalism site, National Women's Health Week and more

This week, EWG released an analysis that details the crop insurance premium subsidies in the Mississippi River region. The report found that the subsides cost taxpayers almost $39.5 billion between...
EWG weekly news roundup
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals

EWG finds over half of people surveyed think tap water is unsafe

More than 50 percent of thousands of Americans surveyed by EWG say their tap water is unsafe and 40 percent won’t or can’t drink it. But even with widespread concern over tap water quality, nearly...
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Four infant formula questions for Commissioner Califf

Several factors have contributed to the infant formula crisis we are witnessing now and, though the operations at Abbott Nutrition warrant scrutiny, we must look at how failures at the Food and Drug...

Baby drinking formula
Energy
Utilities
Renewable Energy
Regional Issues
California

Gov. Newsom says rooftop solar ‘essential’ for California’s future

During a Friday press conference announcing a revised budget proposal that includes billions in new investments for California’s electricity grid, Gov. Gavin Newsom called rooftop solar “essential” to...
Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

EWG statement on FDA response to phthalates food petition

The Food and Drug Administration is denying a 2016 petition from environmental and consumer advocacy groups asking it to revoke approval of harmful phthalate chemicals in food packaging and food...
FDA building
Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

EWG applauds Senate bill to close food chemical safety loopholes

EWG applauds Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) for today introducing legislation to ensure the safety of food chemicals by closing regulatory loopholes.
Food & Water
Food
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

California Assembly passes bill to track and report toxic ‘forever chemicals’ sold, distributed or imported to the state

The California Assembly today advanced Assembly Bill 2247, a measure to collect and report on the products and substances sold in and brought into California that contain the toxic “forever chemicals”...

EWG news roundup (1/28): EWG’s crop insurance database, ‘forever chemicals’ in various textiles and more

EWG news roundup (1/28): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG weekly news roundup
Food & Water
Food
Water
Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Meat and Dairy Alternatives
Farm Pollution
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Regional Issues
California

Pesticide peril: Toxic threats to farmworkers and families in Ventura County

A toxic threat is facing many parts of California’s Ventura County, where everyone from farmworkers to families could be at risk from increased exposure to harmful pesticides.
Ventura county farm

32 millones de libras de pesticidas tóxicos utilizados en el condado de Ventura, amenazando a los trabajadores agrícolas, las familias y demás

Más de 32 millones de libras de pesticidas tóxicos, entre ellos muchos relacionados con el cáncer y los problemas respiratorios y de desarrollo, se han utilizado en los campos de cultivo del condado de Ventura entre 2015 y 2020, incluyendo cerca de las escuelas y los hogares, según un análisis pionero de los datos de pesticidas de California realizado por Environmental Working Group.

Ventura county homes
Energy
Utilities
Renewable Energy
Regional Issues
California

Poll: Voters overwhelmingly oppose California plan to crush popular rooftop solar program

Sixty-four percent of California voters oppose a power-industry-backed plan by the state’s Public Utilities Commission, or CPUC, to crush a popular rooftop solar program by ending incentives and...

Informe: 32 millones de libras de pesticidas tóxicos rociados en los terrenos del condado de Ventura entre 2015 y 2020

FEBRERO 3, 2022

Alexis Temkin, Ph.D., Toxicóloga (EWG)
Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., Vicepresidenta de Investigaciones Científicas (EWG)
Sarah Porter, Directora Geoespacial (EWG)

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"El condado de Ventura, en California", así comenzaba un reportaje en The Washington Post de agosto de 2015, "es el lugar absolutamente más deseable para vivir en los Estados Unidos".

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Farm field in Ventura county California
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Household & Consumer Products
Sunscreen

Sunscreen - Lessons Learned From a Trip to the Beach

It's fair to say that I'm not a beach person. My hair is pale blonde and my skin is the color of a marshmallow, if it had freckles. I have nightmarish memories of being covered head to toe in...
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

EPA takes important steps to curb ‘forever chemicals’ in water, but more needed

The Environmental Protection Agency today announced several new actions to address discharges of the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS into lakes, rivers, streams and other sources of drinking water...

EWG news roundup (4/29): EPA to suspend all uses of toxic weedkiller, Duke Energy seeks to stifle clean energy in N.C. and more

EWG news roundup (4/29): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup
Food & Water
Food
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

This cancer-causing chemical may be lurking in your bread

Many packaged baked goods are made with flour that may contain potassium bromate, an additive linked to cancer. The chemical is added to flour to strengthen dough and allow it to rise higher, benefits...
Kid eating grilled cheese
Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies

Cleaning Industry: Simple Steps to Improve Your Grades

Since we released the new online EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning, with ratings of more than 2,000 different products, many consumers and several companies have asked us why some products get low...
Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Conservation
Meat and Dairy Alternatives
Factory Farms

Tackling the rising climate costs of American food and farming

Even if the U.S. stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, rising greenhouse gas emissions from food and farming could make a climate catastrophe unavoidable.

Barn in a storm
Personal Care Products
Sunscreen
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

What effect do melanin and sunscreen have on vitamin D levels?

Why do people with heavily pigmented skin often have lower levels of vitamin D, and how does sunscreen play a role? These are questions researchers are trying to answer.
Energy
Utilities
Federal & State Energy Policy
Renewable Energy
Regional Issues
North Carolina

Stifling solar: Duke Energy’s long war against North Carolina clean energy

Duke Energy is asking North Carolina utility regulators to approve a plan that could stifle the growth of renewable solar power in the state while hiking ratepayers’ bills – the latest in the monopoly...

Duke coal plant
Research

In the Mississippi River region, billions of dollars spent on crop insurance payouts could have been used instead to retire over 300,000 acres of frequently flooded fields

The almost $1.5 billion in federal crop insurance indemnities sent to farmers in the Mississippi River Critical Conservation Area for flooding damage between 2001 and 2020 could have instead taken more than 300,000 acres of frequently flooded farmland out of production.
Flooded soybean field
Research

For decades, the FDA knew toxic 'forever chemicals' were dangerous but continued to allow their use

As far back as the 1960s, animal studies showed the chemicals caused harm even months after exposure ended and industry studies showed they could migrate from paper and paperboard food packaging into food.
FDA building
Toxic Chemicals
Flame Retardants
Household & Consumer Products

Toxic Fire Retardants Are Everywhere in Homes, New Studies Find

Harmful fire retardant chemicals are turning up in everything from furniture to dust in American homes, researchers report in two new studies being published today (Nov. 28), a finding that...
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

For decades, the FDA knew ‘forever chemicals’ were harmful but failed to act

The Food and Drug Administration has understood since 1966 that the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS could increase cholesterol and cause liver lesions, E&E reported today.
FDA building