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Labor Day Made Fun and Safer With EWG

Does your family head to the beach for Labor Day? Host friends and family for a barbecue? Whatever your particular tradition, EWG has you covered when it comes to marking the end of summer safely and...

Children’s Health
Household & Consumer Products
Sunscreen
Cosmetics

Three-Fourths of Sunscreen Products Offer Inferior Protection or Contain Worrisome Ingredients

As states reopen and Americans leave their homes to venture outside, it's important for them to remember to protect their skin from the sun's harmful rays. Today the Environmental Working Group...

Cell Phones

Cell Phone Radiation Blog Series - All In One Place

Last September, EWG released a Cell Phone Radiation Science Review and a first-of-its-kind database showing the radiation levels of thousands of cell phones. The response was huge - not surprising...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

EWG analysis: From 2018 to 2020, farmers reaped $91.6B in taxpayer-funded USDA subsidies

Between 2018 and 2020, Agriculture Department programs paid commodity farmers $91.6 billion for crop price decreases and other challenges, with similar program qualifications allowing some farmers to...

Back to school: Are we ready? Are we non-toxic?

Just yesterday the letter came from our new school. Excitement turned to panic as I read the list of required items to bring on the 1st day. The many purchases we must make between today and the first...
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
Chromium-6

What is chromium-6? Here’s what you need to know

Hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6, is the cancer-causing chemical that poisoned the community of Hinkley, Calif., made notorious by the 2000 film “Erin Brockovich.”
Household & Consumer Products
Sunscreen

EWG’s 2017 Guide to Sunscreens

Just in time for summer, EWG released its 2017 Guide to Sunscreens today, which found that almost three-fourths of the products evaluated rate poorly for skin protection, or have ingredients that...

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (8/11): Formaldehyde in Salons and Contaminants in Well Water

Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Household & Consumer Products
Cell Phones
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Children’s Health

Study: Wireless radiation exposure for children should be hundreds of times lower than current federal limits

A peer-reviewed study by the Environmental Working Group recommends stringent health-based exposure standards for radiofrequency radiation emitted from wireless devices for both children and adults...
Food & Water
Water
Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Farm Pollution
Toxic Algae

Toxic algae blooms: What you should know

Summer is in full swing, with families heading to lakes and other bodies of water, and that means it’s also the peak season for harmful algae blooms. Toxic algae blooms are a growing problem...
Household & Consumer Products
Children’s Health
Sunscreen

Seven Most Common Mistakes When Applying Sunscreen

The good news: you're putting sunscreen on yourself and your kids. The bad news: you might be doing it all wrong. Here are the seven most common mistakes people make when putting on sunscreen – and...

Energy
Utilities
Federal & State Energy Policy
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Renewable Energy
Regional Issues
California

Sweeping reforms at PG&E vital to lower electricity bills, mitigate wildfire threats and embrace renewables, EWG probe finds

Pacific Gas & Electric, the monopoly California utility with a long and sordid history of wasteful spending, fleecing ratepayers, hindering clean energy equity and rampant negligence that has...
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Farm Subsidies

Naming (1.5 Million) Names

A new Web site, developed by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) from millions of previously unpublished USDA subsidy records and released today, provides nearly full disclosure of federal farm...
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

EWG's Healthy Home Checklist: Assess your house

The good news is that there's a lot of information available these days about how to reduce your exposures to toxic chemicals at home. The bad news, of course, is exactly that: there's a lot of...

EWG news roundup (6/24): Triple-dipping farm subsidies, 'neonic' pesticides may harm children’s health and more

EWG news roundup (6/24): Here’s some news you can use going into this weekend.

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Toxic Chemicals

Spotlighting women’s health for Women’s Health Month

Women’s relationship to the environment is unique in many ways, with lifestyle choices and habits presenting special challenges, because some of the personal care products they use may contain harmful...

Household & Consumer Products
Sunscreen

Four Risky Myths About SPF

SPF, or Sun Protection Factor, indicates how well a sunscreen blocks out some of the sun's harmful rays. The number refers to how much longer you can stay in the sun before burning than you could with...

Consumer Guides

EWG’s Guide to Reducing Disinfectant Byproducts in Pools

EWG’s Guide to Reducing Disinfectant Byproducts in Pools
Farm Subsidies

Farm Subsidies 101: For eaters, not policy wonks

There's a lot of talk these days about healthy food, sustainable farming, organics, and buying local. A lot.

EWG News Roundup (8/27): Costly Algae Blooms, California Senate Spikes Lead Faucet Protection Bill and More

EWG News Roundup (8/27): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (10/25): 2019 National Tap Water Database, Nonstick Chemicals Taint Louisville Drinking Water and More

EWG News Roundup (10/25): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (9/21): Asbestos in U.S. Schools, House Members’ Votes on Toxic Chemical Bills and More

EWG News Roundup (9/21): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Household & Consumer Products

On Bed Bugs: Prevent,

Last summer I slept in New York City. To anyone familiar with sleeping in New York City (not me), bedbugs is just part of the deal. When my cousin, in whose groovy, old loft I was crashing, suggested...

Prioritize your food dollars with Dr. Greene

You're organic-savvy, right? You already use the Shoppers' Guide to prioritize your produce purchases, but now you're wondering what else you should be considering when it comes to your food dollars...