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Potassium Bromate
Study: Women of Color Exposed to More Toxic Chemicals in Personal Care Products
Women of color use more beauty products and are disproportionately exposed to worrisome chemicals compared to white women, according to a new study.
EWG’s News Roundup (8/18): EPA Chisels Away at Environmental Protection, Cosmetics Put Women of Color at Risk and Food Chemicals Linked to Obesity
Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Unlimited Subsidies for Corn, None for Health Care Coverage
When it comes to farm subsidies, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., says his farmers should “receive the long-term certainty they deserve.”
California’s Fracking Fluids
EWG’s News Roundup (9/15): Chemical Industry Shill Eyes EPA and California Advances Public Health
Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
From Hair Care to Hamburgers, Companies Get On Board the Transparency Train
Americans want and have a right to know what's in the stuff they buy. Manufacturers and marketers are finally joining the unstoppable movement for product transparency.
Junk Rocket Science: How Trump’s EPA Nominee Greenwashed Brain-Damaging Chemical
Before he became President Trump's pick to oversee the nation's chemical safety, Michael Dourson argued for a weak drinking water standard for a rocket fuel chemical that impairs babies' developing...
San Francisco Moves to Protect Children from Flame Retardant Chemicals
San Francisco could soon become the first U.S. city to prohibit chemical flame retardants in all new upholstered furniture and children's products sold in the city, including online sales.
Trump Chemical Safety Nominee Sparks Widespread Concern
President Trump's nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency has raised widespread concern among public health, reproductive health, labor, business and environmental...
Rice and Beans: $1.20 in New York, $73 in Haiti
People in developing nations don't go hungry because there's not enough food to go around. It's because they're poor.
Nonstick Chemicals: A Hydra-Headed Family of Toxic Compounds
Banning or restricting toxic chemicals one at a time is like fighting the mythical hydra: For each head cut off, multiple replacements appear that may be just as hazardous. There's no better example...
If You Are What You Eat, Are We Making Children Nonstick?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on any given day one in three American children – no matter their age, race or family income – eat fast food. Hamburgers, french fries...
EWG News Roundup (3/3): Trump’s Budget Cuts, the Clean Water Rule and Neurotoxin in Hair Dye
Here's some news you can use as you begin your weekend.
Fooling Ourselves
Despite Rising Demand, U.S. Doesn’t Do Enough to Support Organic Transition
More and more Americans want to avoid toxic pesticides on the foods they are buying and feeding their families. But the U.S. invests too little in growing more organic food. As demand for organic food...
Will More Farm Subsidies Help the Rural Economy?
It's an understatement to say “there is real potential for a crisis in rural America,” as House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conaway warned before a hearing on the new farm bill.
News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (March 24)
Here are several of this past week's deep dives on developments coming out of the Trump White House.
News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (April 21)
Here are several of this past week's deep dives on developments coming out of the Trump White House.
Cutting the Fat
Attack on Food Safety Rules Is Life or Death Issue for Allergy Sufferers
Food allergies don't just cause hives or breathing problems – they can also kill. That's why the so-called Regulatory Accountability Act, or RAA, moving through Congress should be called the License...
The Senate is About to Pass a Bill That Could Keep Asbestos and Other Deadly Chemicals Legal
‘Retired’ Sensitive Cropland: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Instead of expanding CRP, more funding in the 2018 Farm Bill should go to both of these highly effective programs. That would be a better deal for taxpayers, the environment and public health.