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More than 600,000 service members given ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

More than 600,000 service members at 116 military installations were annually served water with potentially unsafe levels of the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, according to an Environmental...
Energy
Midwest
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water

New Study Paints Corn Ethanol As Eco-Unfriendly

In May 2009, Steve Ruh, who was then chair of the National Corn Growers Association's Ethanol Committee, called corn ethanol the “most environmentally friendly fuel available today.”

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG Study: EPA Fails To Follow Landmark Law To Protect Children From Pesticides in Food

The landmark Food Quality Protection Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to protect children's health by applying an extra margin of safety to legal limits for pesticides in food. But an...

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Pollution
Food & Water
Water

Study: Nitrate in Wisconsin’s Drinking Water Linked to Cancer, Preterm Births and Up To $74 Million in Yearly Healthcare Costs

Nitrate contamination of drinking water in Wisconsin may cause nearly 300 cases a year of colorectal and other cancers and increase the risk of very premature births, very low birth weight and birth...

EWG Taps Craig Cox To Head New Midwest Office

Craig Cox, one of the country's preeminent authorities on the environmental impacts of modern agriculture, has been named Midwest Vice President of Environmental Working Group (EWG) and will establish...
Children’s Health
Food & Water

Why You Should Still Breastfeed – Even Though U.S. Delegates Blocked WHO Breastfeeding Resolution

On July 8, health advocates were shocked when U.S. delegates stopped a World Health Assembly resolution to encourage breastfeeding.

BPA

BPA Invades the Womb

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the outcry over Rachel Carson's path-breaking Silent Spring and global mobilization around the first Earth Day spurred scientists to attempt to quantify how much pollution...

EPA widens rift with science advisers

The stress crack between Environmental Protection Agency and its outside science advisers just got a lot deeper. In fact, these days it looks a lot like a thousand-foot crevasse. The proximate cause...
Arsenic
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

In the news: September 22, 2006

Autism: The continuing debate over whether vaccines play a role in neurodevelopmental disorders is more than academic, with children's health and industry wealth hanging in the balance. British...
Household & Consumer Products

No More Tanning Beds for Teens

With prom and graduation season right around the corner, teens around the country are turning to indoor tanning salons for the sun-kissed tans they wish for.

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

In 20 Years Since Landmark Law, Pesticides in Baby Food Drop Dramatically

On Aug. 3, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Food Quality Protection Act, a landmark law that required the EPA to show that all exposures to pesticides in food were safe for infants and children...

Sunscreen

On Sunscreen: 4 Common Questions About SPF

Pretty much all I knew about sunscreen growing up was that SPF was some measure of how much sunburn protection came out of the bottle. Hard to believe that back in the day, the great debate was "6 or...
California

Stewart to Pickens: "Is it horribly unsafe, is that what this fracking is?"

On a recent episode of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show," Texas oil and gas executive T. Boone Pickens proudly declared, "I have fracked 3,000 wells in my life. I have never seen anything damaged."
Water

UN report: Urban sustainability must be a priority

In 2008, half of the world's entire population will live in cities. That number is expected to keep growing, according to a report from the United Nations Population Fund, and as the world's urban...
Children’s Health
Food & Water

Lead in Tap Water: What Parents Should Know

Lead-contaminated water is not unique to Flint, Mich., or Newark, N.J., where excessively high levels of lead contaminate drinking water. Millions of Americans may unknowingly be drinking water...

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

Big Food Fights to Keep Kids Fat

Childhood obesity rates in the U.S. are at an all-time high, while the quality of our children's food has reached a new low.
Food & Water
Food
Household & Consumer Products
Cookware & Food Containers
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

Calif. bill would ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from food packaging

State legislation that would ban the toxic “forever chemicals” called PFAS from plant-based food packaging passed out of the California Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee on...
Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Household & Consumer Products
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Toxic Chemicals

Addressing misinformation on the internet about EWG’s ratings systems

A recent viral social media post about a Bath & Body Works air freshener makes inaccurate and misleading allegations about EWG’s product ratings systems.
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

California Assembly approves bill to ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from food packaging

Today, the California Assembly passed Assembly Bill 1200 by a vote of 43-12. If enacted, the law would ban the toxic “forever chemicals” called PFAS from paper, paperboard or plant-based food...
Takeout food
Midwest

Revamp policy: Stress sustainability

Des Moines Register, Craig Cox Published November 3, 2008 Two recent reports in the Register make it clear that we need to overhaul our biofuels policy.
Flame Retardants
Children’s Health

China-made toys contaminated with fire retardants

Special to Enviroblog by David Andrews, EWG Staff Scientist I have a 9 month-old son who is teething. It is nearly impossible to keep him from trying to chew on the TV, computer, remote, vacuum...
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Letter to ATSDR Director re: omissions from PFAS website

The Environmental Working Group is writing to urge ATSDR, an agency on the front lines of the fight to protect public health from PFAS pollution, to provide on its website the most robust, easily...

Midwest

How to Improve Air Quality at Your Children’s School

A healthy, resting adult takes 12 to 20 breaths per minute.

Environmental, Health, Business and Public Policy Experts Join EWG Board

Six new members have taken seats on the board of directors of Environmental Working Group, collectively bringing with them decades of experience in environmental activism, grassroots organizing...