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How Industry Twists Science to Downplay the Dangers of Toxic Chemicals

The most egregious flaw of the United States' toothless and outdated system of regulating chemicals is the failure to adequately and independently test chemicals for safety. Because of the...

Food & Water
Food
Water
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Lead
Pesticides
Regional Issues
California

California Children’s Environmental Health Month shows risks of pesticides, lead

California’s proclamation of October as Children’s Environmental Health Month highlights the need to protect children from exposure to pesticides and hazardous chemicals like lead, which can result in...
Food & Water
Water

EPA to require tap water tests for unregulated contaminants

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a nationwide plan to require water utilities to test drinking water for 28 contaminants currently unregulated by federal law, including six...

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

Their Spray Rigs in a Twist

When industry lobbyists want the government to do something the public won't like, they usually go about it quietly. Not so for the produce and pesticide lobby.
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate
Household & Consumer Products
Energy
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (6/14): Nitrate Pollution of U.S. Tap Water Could Cause 12,500 Cases of Cancer Each Year, Monsanto’s Weedkiller Still Contaminates Foods Marketed to Children and More

EWG News Roundup (6/14): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

Explosion of Unregulated Factory Farms in Maumee Watershed Fuels Lake Erie’s Toxic Blooms

The Maumee River, overloaded with fertilizer and manure, is the single largest source of the phosphorus that triggers blooms of toxic algae in Lake Erie. Over half of the manure in the Maumee River watershed comes from an exploding number of unregulated factory farms, a new EWG and Environmental Law & Policy Center investigation reveals.
Research

Double Dippers

Some of America's richest agribusinesses are double dipping from U.S. taxpayers' pockets at a rate of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) computer investigation of federal crop and water subsidies to California's Central Valley Project (CVP).
Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (2/3) Pruitt, PFCs in Food, Harvard, Truth-Challenged White House and More

Holy smokes, what a week. It began with reports from EWG and others showing food wrappers from several top fast food chains were contaminated with toxic PFCs. The Senate broke its own rules to force a...

Toxic Chemicals

To Chairman Rush: chemicals in umbilical cord blood – including PBTs – need urgent action

Subject: Industrial chemicals in umbilical cord blood – including persistent and bioaccumulative compounds – need urgent action
Research

Thyroid Threat

A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that more than one third of American women are deficient in iodine, and that for these women, exposure to the rocket fuel contaminant perchlorate in food or water can cause a significant and dose dependent decline in thyroid hormone levels. Low thyroid levels, or subclinical hypothyroidism, is an established risk factor
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate
Household & Consumer Products
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (10/26): More Kids’ Foods with Monsanto’s Roundup, Eating Organic Helps Prevent Cancer and More

EWG News Roundup (10/26): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

Newsom signs law banning toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from cosmetics in California

On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that bans intentionally added toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS from cosmetics sold in California.
Mercury

Follow Up to Utility Industry-Funded Study Leads to Finding that Mercury in Fish No Problem, Scores of Independent Studies Suggest

In an effort to divert building efforts to warn American women about the dangers of mercury-contaminated tuna fish, seafood industry lobbyists are hyping a study originally funded by the mercury...
Research

What Scientists Say About Vitamin A in Sunscreen

New sunscreen rules will do away with the worst hype in sunscreen marketing. But they don't address concerns about ingredient safety, particularly a form of vitamin A which has become common in sunscreen and other skin products.
Toxic Chemicals
Arsenic
Food & Water
Food
Food & Water
Water

Getting Arsenic out of Your (and Your Kids') Diet

Although scientists and government regulators have long known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in our diet and water, it was unsettling when two major reports came out on the same day (Sept...
Energy

Statement of Kenneth A. Cook

Statement of Kenneth A. Cook, President, Environmental Working Group before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation on crucial issues surrounding the safety and...
Chemical Policy

Congress to Chemical Industry: You’re Under Investigation

The powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee today launched a landmark investigation into the chemical industry lobby group, The American Chemistry Council (ACC). In a letter to ACC President Jack...
Children’s Health
Household & Consumer Products

Cell Phones in Schools? France Says No, San Francisco Educators Urge Caution

As the school year begins, the movement to exercise caution in students' use of cell phones and other wireless devices is gaining international momentum.

Research

BPA in Canned Food

You may know that bisphenol A, a synthetic estrogen found in the epoxy coatings of food cans, has been linked to many health problems. Many companies have publicly pledged to stop using BPA in their cans. But consumers like you have had no way to know which canned foods use BPA-based epoxy. Until now. EWG analyzed 252 canned food brands, mostly between January and August 2014, to find out which of
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG’s News Roundup (9/15): Chemical Industry Shill Eyes EPA and California Advances Public Health

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

Research

Dirt Cheap: America's Lands in Speculators' Hands

A little-known provision in the current House budget reconciliation could precipitate one of the largest land giveaways in American history. The provision, spearheaded by Rep. Richard Pombo of California, would put up for sale millions of acres of public land where companies have staked mining claims, including land inside or adjacent to national parks, wilderness areas and other natural treasures
Children’s Health
Midwest
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (9/13): Army Sites Plagued With PFAS, Trump Guts Clean Water Rule and More

EWG News Roundup (9/13): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

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.

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

EWG News Roundup (5/10): Expanding PFAS Contamination Crisis, Golden State Bans Brain Damaging Pesticide and More

EWG News Roundup (5/10): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.