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GAO Flunks Some States on Tap Water Quality Monitoring

A new report from Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap water safety data reporting. GAO attributed the lapses...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food

Valuable Farm Bill Program for Fruits and Vegetables Needs Better Focus

An important farm bill program that provides valuable support for California's growers and consumers of healthy fruits, vegetables and nuts would deliver greater all-around benefits if state officials...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (4/13): Pesticides in Fruits and Vegetables, Pruitt’s Scandal List and More

EWG News Roundup (4/13): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (7/30): CAFOs Run Amok in North Carolina, Senate Republican COVID-19 Stimulus Lets Down Farm Workers and More

EWG News Roundup (7/30): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

Biofuels and Bad Weather

When the Bush administration and Congress required gasoline refiners to blend in 15 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol by 2015, they made the impossibly rosy assumption that American farmers would always enjoy good weather. But as every farmer knows, years with perfect growing conditions are uncommon and getting more rare.

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A year after he mocked environmentalists as " Prohibitionists at a frat party," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has delivered another big Earth Day speech – this time at Yale – with the same theme: The...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Once Again, Obama’s USDA Less Transparent than Bush’s

The ballooning national debt and Tea Party pressure has members of Congress running in the halls with their budget-cutting scissors in hand. The Senate Agriculture Committee is no exception.

EWG News Roundup (3/26): Swapping Furniture and Foam Reduced Flame Retardant Chemicals, ‘Forever Chemicals’ Added to California Carcinogen List and More

EWG News Roundup (3/26): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Watching the Future Wash Away

Bad federal policy and intensifying storms are washing away the rich dark soils in the Midwest that made this country an agricultural powerhouse and that remain the essential foundation of a healthy...
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (1/18): EPA Sides with Monsanto’s ‘Science,’ Congress Introduces Bipartisan PFAS Legislation and More

EWG News Roundup (1/18): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG news roundup (5/6): EWG’s 16th annual Guide to Sunscreens, ‘forever chemicals’ in food wrappers and more

EWG news roundup (5/6): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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Family Health
Reproductive Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

What are endocrine disruptors?

A class of potent chemicals is wreaking havoc by interfering with our hormone system. They’re called endocrine disruptors and they throw off the regular functioning of the hormone system, causing a...

EWG news roundup (12/3): The risks with green tea extract, meat’s math problem, healthier face masks and more

Last week, EWG published an analysis of epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG, an extract of green tea that’s both added to food and used as a supplement. Though credited with several health benefits, it...

EWG weekly news roundup
Farm Subsidies

EWG Comments on the California Air Resources Board Climate Change Proposed Scoping Plan

Environmental Working Group is a research and advocacy nonprofit with considerable expertise in U.S. agriculture. We are perhaps best known in agriculture policy circles for our Farm Subsidy Database...
Research

A Few Bad Apples...

Laboratory tests of apples grown in Washington State and purchased in Seattle supermarkets over the past five months found widespread insecticide contamination. Eight percent of apple samples had unsafe levels of a bug killer abruptly banned for use on apples and other foods in August, 1999 by federal authorities because of nervous system risks to children.

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Farming & Agriculture

EWG News Roundup (1/11): Trump EPA Walks Back Youth Pesticide Proposal, Coal Miners Turn Their Back on the President and More

EWG News Roundup (1/11): Here's some more news you can use going into the weekend

Farm Subsidies

Farm Policy for the Rest of Us

Kenneth A. Cook Speech to The American Bankers Association Agricultural Bankers Annual Meeting Minneapolis, Minnesota November 16, 2004 "Most people not on the receiving end of farm program payments...
Research

Prioritizing PFAS: The next government-wide plan to tackle ‘forever chemicals’

The contamination crisis from the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS is far from over, despite the Biden-Harris administration’s strides implementing its government-wide plan to combat PFAS pollution. EWG has identified steps the next administration should take to build on successes so far. These steps are priority actions that the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense and others
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Research

Chromium-6 in U.S. Tap Water

Laboratory tests commissioned by EWG have detected hexavalent chromium, the carcinogenic “Erin Brockovich chemical,” in tap water from 31 of 35 American cities. The highest levels were in Norman, Okla.; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Riverside, Calif. In all, water samples from 25 cities contained the toxic metal at concentrations above the safe maximum recently proposed by California regulators.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Wealthy Ag Lobbies Cry Poor

Welcome to Kernel Watch, a time-to-time AgMag series looking at the follies, excesses and outright distortions spouted by agribusiness and its PR and lobby arms. Their goal is to keep consumers in the...
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Toxic Chemicals

What you can do about the environmental risk factors that can lead to breast cancer

Cancer affects all communities. And breast cancer can occur in people of all genders
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water
Food & Water

Trump at 6 Months: An Unprecedented Assault on Children’s Health

President Trump said last week that in his first months in office he has accomplished "more ... than practically any president in history." His claim is not supported by the facts, but at the six...

EWG News Roundup (10/9): Nitrate Contaminates Water in California’s Majority-Latino Communities, Members of Congress Rake in Farm Subsidies and More

This week EWG released an analysis showing that in California's majority-Latino communities, 5.25 million people drink tap water contaminated with nitrate at levels at or above the federal limit.

Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG’s News Roundup (10/20): Trouble in Farm Country, EPA Toxics Nominee Hopscotches Senate and More

EWG's News Roundup (10/20): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.