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Every Parent Concerned About Their Kids’ Health Should Read This Book

If the Environmental Working Group were to assign a book for parents and expectant parents, it would be “Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know.”
Food & Water
Water
Farming & Agriculture
Factory Farms

Perdue Chicken Out to Pluck Public Interest Lawyers

Perdue Chicken Chairman Jim Perdue is retaliating against environmentalists -- and their lawyers -- who filed filed suit against the poultry giant and one of its contract chicken farms on March 2 for...
Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

EWG’s 2023 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™: Blueberries, green beans join the Dirty Dozen™

Thirty years after a landmark National Academies of Sciences study warning of the dangers posed to children by pesticides, 75 percent of non-organic fruits and vegetables sold in the U.S. are still...
Child holding blueberries
Energy
Midwest

California Needs Corn Ethanol Reform

The federal requirement to blend nearly 14 billion gallons of corn ethanol into gasoline – more than the system can physically absorb – is slowing the nation's transition to low carbon fuels, harming...

Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

Setting the record straight on EWG’s funding and Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™

In what has become an annual ritual, in recent weeks the 2023 EWG Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™has been the target of attacks on social media by uninformed people and groups. We trust our...
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

‘Forever chemicals’ contamination at Defense Department sites threatens Chesapeake Bay fish

The groundwater of at least nine military installations close to the Chesapeake Bay is contaminated with high levels of the toxic fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, according to Department...
Photo of the Bay Bridge in Maryland
Pesticides
Sunscreen
Water

EWG News Roundup (6/30): Tap Water Endangered for 117M, Trump’s Pay-to-Spray and Best Budget Sunscreens

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

Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Sunscreen
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

Keep your kids safer in the sun this Fourth of July

This Fourth of July weekend is all about getting out in the sun. Picnics, barbecues and time at the pool are all great excuses to get little ones outside to play and exercise.
Child applying sunscreen
Energy
Midwest

EWG's Scott Faber Testifies Before Congress about Renewable Fuel Standard

Testimony of Scott Faber, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, Environmental Working Group before the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety and the Senate Committee on Environment and...

Food & Water
Food

New Findings on Peanut Allergy Prevention

Eating peanuts during infancy – rather than avoiding them – may be the key to preventing long-term peanut allergies in children. The benefit of early exposure persists even if kids later take a year...

Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

OUT NOW: EWG’s 2021 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™

Collard and mustard greens join kale among the most pesticide-contaminated fresh produce on the Environmental Working Group's 2021 Dirty Dozen™ list. For the first time, bell peppers and hot peppers...

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

Michelle Pfeiffer Joins EWG’s Board of Directors Actress, Environmentalist Is a Long-Time EWG Supporter

Golden Globe Award winner and three-time Academy Award nominated actress Michelle Pfeiffer has joined the board of directors at EWG. She brings not only enormous influence, but also a longstanding...

Mercury

Mercury Memo

Like lead, mercury is toxic to the developing brain. It blocks the natural formation and migration of nerve cells and alters brain growth and development. The fetus is most vulnerable to mercury and...
Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Children’s Health
Pesticides

Why Children, Pregnant Women Should Eat Food with Fewer Pesticides

“For many children, diet may be the most influential source” of pesticides, said the Academy of Pediatrics in a landmark report published in November 2012.

Food & Water
Food

Wave of Support for School Nutrition Standards

More than 200 national, state and local organizations and dozens of health professionals signed onto a letter declaring their support for an amendment proposed by Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.) to protect...

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

1 in 4 California child care centers found to have alarming levels of lead in drinking water, putting babies and children at risk

Results of lead tests released today by California reveal that nearly 1,700 licensed child care centers across the state have exceeded the amount of allowable lead in drinking water given daily to...
Toxic Chemicals
Arsenic
Food & Water
Food
Food

Congresswoman DeLauro Takes on Arsenic in Rice

Although scientists and government regulators have known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in drinking water, emerging evidence is showing that arsenic, a known human carcinogen, also...

Research

The health benefits of a whole foods, plant-forward diet

A plant-forward diet – loosely defined as a diet that is rich in plant foods but that can also include eggs, dairy foods, and occasionally lean meat, poultry and seafood ­– is becoming more widely accepted as a way of eating that promotes optimal health.
Plant based report
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

Five ways a hidden Pentagon health study undercounts ‘forever chemicals’ risks

The Defense Department may be underestimating by hundreds of thousands the number of people at military installations drinking water contaminated with the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. The DOD’s...
Parent and child
Toxic Chemicals

Don't Let Your Child Be a Back Seat Smoker

Many parents who don't smoke - and have raised their kids to do the same - might be surprised to learn that their offspring could be secondhand-smoking a pack a week.
Toxic Chemicals
Cosmetics

Banned pesticide still used in head lice treatment

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against The Ecology Center and two Michigan pediatricians who stood up in support of banning the dangerous chemical lindane in anti-head-lice shampoos.
Energy
Midwest
Farming & Agriculture

Overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard: Stakeholder Perspectives

Testimony of Scott Fabe, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, Environmental Working Groupb before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on...

Toxic Chemicals
Arsenic

Probabilistic exposure and risk assessment for children who contact CCA-treated wood on playsets and decks and CCA-containing so

Statement by Jane Houlihan, Vice President for Research, Environmental Working Group on the probabilistic exposure and risk assessment for children who contact CCA-treated wood on playsets and decks...
Research

NIH to Review Flawed Report on Impacts of BPA Exposure

After a steady drumbeat of criticism from EWG, Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), outside scientists and mainstream media, the National Institute's of Health's (NIH) National Toxicology Program (NTP) has agreed to launch a top-down investigation into the Center for the Evaluation of Risk to Human Reproduction's (CERHR) flawed, industry-friendly report on the health impacts of the dangerous toxic