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Many Fast Food Wrappers Still Coated in PFCs, Kin to Carcinogenic Teflon Chemical

Exposure to PFCs has been linked to testicular and kidney cancer, thyroid disease, pregnancy-induced hypertension and preeclampsia, ulcerative colitis and high cholesterol.
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

EWG News Roundup (7/14): Toxics Passed Down for Generations, Harmful Kids’ Products and Flame Retardants in Newborns

Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Food
Food Chemicals
California

Something to scream about: Harmful chemicals in ice cream and popsicles

Summer is fast approaching, and this time of year no duo is more iconic than hot, sunny weather and frozen, creamy desserts or tart, icy popsicles. But many people don’t realize that a sugar rush or a...
Ice Cream
Toxic Chemicals
BPA
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

BPA Update: Tracking the Canned Food Phaseout

For decades, most canned food manufacturers used can linings made of epoxy resin based on bisphenol A, or BPA, making food the primary route of our exposure to this toxic chemical. A robust body of...
Cell Phones

Cell Phone Radiation Series - Part 1: The Science

To a lot of people, it might sound about as worrisome as walking under a ladder or not forwarding an email chain letter, but really, what is the deal with cell phone radiation? Is it something you...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Asbestos
BPA
Flame Retardants
Phthalates

EWG Lists the Top 10 Toxic Chemicals EPA Should Review Now

The nation's new chemical safety law promises to give the Environmental Protection Agency expanded authority to regulate hazardous chemicals in consumer products. But of the tens of thousands of...

Water

Most Bottled Water Brands Don’t Disclose Information About Source, Purity and Contaminants

An Environmental Working Group (EWG) investigation of almost 200 popular bottled water brands found less than 2 percent disclose the water's source, how the water has been purified and what chemical...

EWG News Roundup (6/25): Nitrate Contaminates Farm Country Drinking Water, $10 Billion Settlement in Monsanto Weedkiller Case and More

This week, EWG released an analysis of nitrate contamination of drinking water, largely caused by polluted runoff from crop fields, across 10 states, affecting more than 20 million Americans. The...

Chemical Policy
Household & Consumer Products
Sunscreen

2011 Sunscreen Database Profiles 1,700 Products

Consumers can trust a slim 20 percent of the beach and sport sunscreens assessed for the 2011 sun season, according to Environmental Working Group's survey of over 1,700 sun products.

Toxic Chemicals
Lead
Regional Issues
California

New California Law Protects Workers From Toxic Lead Poisoning

Last night Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a powerful measure that will help California protect workers from toxic lead poisoning. With his signature, the governor has directed health officials to...

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

New Studies Trace PFC Pollution from Sources to the Next Generation

Fluorine-based chemicals that can cause cancer, developmental toxicity and numerous other detrimental health effects have contaminated the drinking water of millions of Americans, and the blood of...

Household & Consumer Products
Children’s Health
Sunscreen

EWG Releases 2016 Guide to Sunscreens

Almost three-fourths of the 750 sunscreens evaluated for EWG's annual Guide to Sunscreens, released today, offer inferior protection or contain worrisome ingredients like oxybenzone, a hormone...

Food & Water
Household & Consumer Products
Toxic Chemicals
Asbestos
PFAS Chemicals

EWG News Roundup (3/8): Why Organic is ‘Cleaner,’ Teflon Chemicals Taint Military Sites and More

EWG News Roundup (3/8): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Chemical Policy
Flame Retardants
Household & Consumer Products

"We need to stop this."

Finding a nasty flame retardant in peanut butter and other food products brought EWG senior analyst Sonya Lunder to tell E&E reporter Jeremy Jacobs: "We are contaminating our food chain with chemicals...

A fish called Sally: The truth about mercury, omega 3s, and pregnancy

Washington Post reporter Sally Squires toed the fishing industry line in her front-page article on the recommendations issued by the industry through the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies...
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG’s News Roundup (9/29): Walmart Touts EWG VERIFIED®, Reasons Mount to Oppose EPA Chemical Safety Nominee

Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

New EWG analysis: Of $7.4B spent on two of USDA’s biggest conservation programs in recent years, very little went to ‘climate-smart’ agriculture

Farmers received almost $7.4 billion in payments from two of the largest federal agricultural conservation programs between 2017 and 2020, but only a small proportion of these payments went to practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farming.
Person holding dirt
Food & Water
Farming & Agriculture
Household & Consumer Products
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

EWG News Roundup (5/3): Dirty Duke Energy, Assessing the Combined Risk of Water Contaminants and More

EWG News Roundup (5/3): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Food & Water
Food
Children’s Health
Food Chemicals

Surprise! Foods you’d never guess contain artificial food dye

You’re aware that some sweets, breakfast cereal and soda contain artificial color, so if you don’t eat them, you can mostly avoid artificial food dye – right? Not so fast. Turns out there are plenty...
Pickles

EWG News Roundup (Nov. 18): Trump, Farms, Food and Drinking Water

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...

Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Meat and Dairy Alternatives

Fight the climate crisis with dairy alternatives

EWG has plenty to say about how producing beef and other animal proteins can make the climate catastrophe worse. But what about dairy?
Gallons of milk

EWG News Roundup (2/7): California Bans Neurotoxic Pesticide, Endocrine Disruptors in Menstrual Products and More

EWG News Roundup (2/7): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Conservation

The Other National Debt

You hear plenty of talk about the ballooning federal deficit created by tax cuts, two wars and the effort to dig out of the economic meltdown, but precious little about the funding gap that's...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Obama's USDA Less Transparent Than Bush's

The Environmental Working Group has worked hard to track the billions lavished on the wealthiest and largest farm operations in the country, in the hope that releasing the information would spur...