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EWG news roundup (1/7): Calif. finds PG&E responsible for Dixie Fire, harmful ingredients in breakfast cereals and more

EWG news roundup (1/7): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG weekly news roundup
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

EWG’s News Roundup (1/26): Trump’s Failed Toxics Nominee Departs EPA, Pruitt Hangs Propaganda and More

EWG News Roundup (1/26): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG news roundup (7/9): Protecting California’s rooftop solar program, PG&E petition for $3.6 billion rate hike and more

In an op-ed published last Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle , EWG President and longtime Bay Area resident Ken Cook argued that state regulators should save California’s popular rooftop solar...

EWG weekly news roundup

EWG news roundup (4/23): EWG partners with EnergySage to promote solar, California lawmakers advance bill banning ‘forever chemicals’ in food packaging and more

EWG news roundup (4/23) Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Cancer-Causing Chemical 1,4-Dioxane Contaminates Americans’ Drinking Water

Water supplies for more than 7 million Americans in 27 states are contaminated with an industrial chemical at levels higher than what federal scientists say poses a minimal lifetime risk of cancer...

Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Conservation
Farm Subsidies

EWG investigation: Of $7.4B spent on two major USDA conservation programs, very little has flowed to ‘climate-smart’ farming

Two of the Department of Agriculture’s principal conservation programs paid out almost $7.4 billion to farmers between 2017 and 2020, but only a small part went to practices the USDA itself has...
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California

Why we (still) don't trust Chesapeake Energy

April was a busy month for the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania, especially for one company in particular - Chesapeake Energy Corporation. And that's saying a lot for one of the country's most...
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water
Food
Food

EWG Meat Eater’s Guide Spotlights Beef’s Outsize Carbon Footprint

The Environmental Working Group today released its groundbreaking Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change and Health, a powerful, multi-featured tool that allows both consumers and experts to understand...
Food & Water
Food
Meat and Dairy Alternatives

Plant-centered recipe resources for a healthy lifestyle

As you embark on your journey, here are some plant-rich resources that have either been my go-to choices, or that pique my interest. I’ve woven them in with highlights from our blog series on cooking...
Mother and daughter cooking
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
Midwest
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Whose Freedom is Growth Energy Fueling?

A group of corn ethanol producers is mounting an aggressive campaign they call their “Fueling Freedom Plan” that would have taxpayers spend scarce resources on biofuels pipelines, gas station pumps...

EWG News Roundup (7/20): The Best Bug Repellents, Lead in Schools’ Tap Water and More

EWG News Roundup (7/20): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Household & Consumer Products
Children’s Health
Sunscreen

Worst-Scoring Sunscreens for Kids

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 the sun, of course, and the reality...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

Check Your Home for Cancer-Causing Radon

You've installed smoke detectors and tested for carbon monoxide. But could another dangerous gas be sneaking into your home?

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Nanomaterials
Pesticides
Household & Consumer Products

Comments to EPA request premarket safety testing for nanomaterials

EWG opposes an EPA pesticide office plan for conditional registration of a nanoscale silver chemical known as HeiQ AGS-20 and used as an antimicrobial, pesticide and textile preservative. EWG asks the...

Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Meat and Dairy Alternatives
Family Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Considering renourishment: An important dialogue about human and environmental health

EWG is eager to foster a dialogue about the climate impact of animal versus plant proteins. But food behavior is highly emotional, and having a conversation about nourishment – particularly during a...
Stefanie Sacks cooking
Chemical Policy

Is the Chemical Industry Looking for Chemicals in People?

Only a scant number of chemical industry studies documenting Americans' exposures to industrial chemicals appear on public databases maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and even...

Research

Kellogg's Cereal Recall:

A substance that leached out of cereal packaging and sickened consumers, spurring Kellogg's recall of 28 million boxes of Froot Loops, Apple Jacks and other popular children's cereals, has been identified as a petroleum-based compound that appears to be a breakdown product of chemicals used in the cereal box liners.
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

Michigan Legislators Introduce Legislation To Ensure Health Care for Veterans Exposed to PFAS Chemicals

Today Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.), with members of the bipartisan Congressional PFAS Task Force, introduced the Veterans Exposed to Toxic PFAS Act. This legislation...

Food & Water
Farming & Agriculture
Factory Farms
Regional Issues
North Carolina

Industrial Animal Agriculture Poses Serious Threats to Human Health

For people who live near industrial animal feedlots, the stench, flies and day-and-night rumbling of trucks are more than a nuisance that impairs the use and enjoyment of their own property...
Consumer Guides

EWG's Dietary Guidelines

The Obama administration's Dietary Guidelines for Americans, released in January 2016, are supposed to represent the best scientific judgments on what people need to do to stay healthy. Instead, the 2016 edition of the guidelines, like those before it, are confusing to consumers and influenced by the $1 trillion-a-year food industry.
Toxic Chemicals
Dioxin
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water
Food
Food
Food

A “Dirty Dozen” Chemical To Avoid

The “Dirty Dozen” label doesn't apply only to produce.
Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Toxic Chemicals

Lose the lilial: European Union ban shows risks of chemical in cosmetics

The European Union’s ban on lilial as an ingredient in cosmetics recently took effect, serving as a timely reminder of the need to end use of the chemical in U.S. personal care products.
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Personal Care Products
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Toxic Chemicals

States lead the way to make menstrual products safer

Roughly half of the U.S. population menstruates, and anyone who does will use on average 10,000 menstrual products during their lifetime. These products aren’t luxuries, they’re essential – but...