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Cell Phones

Limit your exposure to cell phone radiation

Most of us have wondered at least once if our cell phones are safe, whether it's OK for our kids to use them, whether we should do something different.
Food & Water
Food

Asparagus Ribbon Salad

Delicious dishes don't have to be complicated – just a few ingredients and a few minutes is often all you need. One of my go-to resources for healthy and simple recipe inspiration is Catherine McCord...

Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

EPA: PFAS drinking water crisis worse than previously reported

Today the Environmental Protection Agency revealed that 26 million people in more than 430 communities have the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in their drinking water.
Research

Crop Insurance

The federal crop insurance program has come under attack for its increasing cost, environmental impacts and secrecy. But the farm lobby, the crop insurance industry and their political patrons maintain that despite its flaws, crop insurance is better, cheaper and less likely to lead to environmental harm than disaster programs.

Mixed Greens 013: Don't get burned!

Does your sunscreen work? Probably says so on the bottle, but don't be so sure. In this edition of Mixed Greens, we break down how to choose a better sunscreen based on EWG's updated 2008 sunscreen...
Toxic Chemicals
Asbestos

Science For Sale: Ford Spends $40M to Discredit Danger of Asbestos Brakes

In 1971 Ford Motor Company decided that $1.25 per car was too much to spend on safer alternatives to asbestos brakes. Thirty years later, in the face of mounting lawsuits, Ford began spending millions...

Research

Broken Stream Banks

Water pollution from farmland is a major problem in southern Minnesota and wherever row crops dominate the landscape across the United States. Much of this pollution can be prevented by the conscientious use of riparian buffers – strips of grass, trees or other permanent vegetation maintained along the banks of rivers, streams, lakes and other waterways.

Envirohealth in Blogs: Factory farming the ocean, plus garlic up your nose

A little light reading for your mid-week enjoyment. Factory farms in the ocean? Smorgasbord tells you what you need to know about offshore aquaculture. Another way to reduce consumption: share stuff...

Envirohealth in Blogs: Fishy fishy. . .

What with the recent confusion over safe fish consumption, you may be in the mood for some clean fish. Head on over to Blogfish for a hot tip on where to find it. It turns out that the streets are...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Asbestos

A Senate Plan to Protect Cancer

Mesothelioma is an aggressive and incurable form of cancer. It is almost always caused by inhaling tiny asbestos fibers, which pass through the lungs and become embedded in the mesothelium, a thin...

Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Meat and Dairy Alternatives
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals
Pesticides

Getting started on your plant-powered kitchen

I hope you’ve garnered enough information from my alternative protein musings that you want to try doing things a little differently. Reshaping what and how you eat is a process, and it’s the small...
Household & Consumer Products
Cell Phones

Burlingame Passes Cell Phone Radiation Bill

The Burlingame, Calif., city council has passed a motion to post guidelines on the city's website to advise consumers how they can minimize their exposure to cell phone radiation.

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (5/26): EWG’s 2017 Sunscreens Guide, Trump’s Budget, Food Fight with FDA and Good News from SC Johnson

Here's some news you can use as you begin your weekend.

Triclosan
Cosmetics
Children’s Health
Cleaning Supplies
Cookware & Food Containers

Cheatsheet: Triclosan

Triclosan is an antibacterial chemical found in many products. Use EWG's Triclosan to identify and avoid this toxic chemical in dish soap, personal care and other antibacterial products.
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (3/30): Pruitt’s Pesticide Anniversary and $50 Condo, Chemicals Causing Weight Gain and More

Roundup 3/30: Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

EWG's Guide to Safer Cell Phone Use

EWG's 2012 guide to cell phone radiation summarizes the new research and the lack of protective government standards for phone radiation. Recommendations to consumers including taking steps to reduce their exposures to cell phone radiation by holding phones away from their bodies, using earpieces and following the other simple tips in our guide.
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

EWG’s Guide to a Healthy Summer

For many families, summer means a whole new routine – different schedules, carpools and activities, and kids spending more time outside. These changes bring a whole new set of considerations about how...

Cell Phones

An App for everything, except radiation levels

Curious about how much radiation is coming from your iPhone? Sorry, there's no app for that.
Food & Water
Food
Food Chemicals

EWG’s Guide to a Healthier Thanksgiving

This year the Covid-19 pandemic has many Americans rethinking how they're spending Thanksgiving. EWG took a fresh look at some of the holiday's traditions, and we have these tips to make your...

California

New York: Explain Why Drillers Got Early Info

Thomas Cluderay, EWG assistant general counsel, testifies New York City before state lawmakers at a public forum on hydrofracking. He highlights EWG's report exposing behind-the-scenes communications...
Cosmetics
Household & Consumer Products
Toxic Chemicals

Timeline: The FDA’s failure to regulate ‘Brazilian blowout’ hair treatments

For more than a decade, the Food and Drug Administration and the cosmetics industry have known that keratin hair-smoothing treatments – commonly called “Brazilian blowout” treatments – release unsafe...
Research

Will the Real Ethanol Beneficiaries Please Stand Up?

Eight years ago, the ethanol industry was keeping up the pretence that corn ethanol was a “bridge” to advanced biofuels. But figures like these, derived from the Renewable Fuels Association's (RFA) own Annual Industry Outlook, tell a different story.
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

Pew: FDA allows untested chemicals in food

Scientists from Pew Charitable Trusts found that 54 percent of the chemicals added to food have never undergone the most basic safety tests recommended by the federal Food and Drug Administration. Pew...

EWG news roundup (2/25): Crop insurance payments flow to many counties on the Mississippi, USGS finds PFAS in drinking water wells in 16 states and more

EWG news roundup (2/25): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
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