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Is Your Drinking Water Safe?
How many times a day do you drink water? Cook with it? Brush your teeth with it? Offer some to your children?
To swim or not to swim: childhood asthma and indoor swimming pools
National Black Farmers Association and EWG Applaud the Justice for Black Farmers Act
The following is the statement of John Boyd, founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, and Scott Faber, EWG's senior vice president for government affairs, on the introduction...
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Many California farmers produce food in ways that protect public health and the environment, but too many others use practices that take a serious toll on the state's water resources. A slew of agricultural pollutants, including fertilizers, pesticides, pathogens and sediment, are seriously damaging California's surface and ground water, poisoning fish and threatening drinking water for many
Sound Science Prevails In EPA Ethanol Decision
Congressional chaos imperils critical chemical safety reviews
If anything good came of recent brinkmanship over federal spending, it might be the reminder that large parts of the economy depend on the federal government. Everything from medical research to food...
Food Safety Bill will Save the Lives of Thousands
Cracking the Perfect Natural Easter Egg Dye
With April hopping along and Easter just around the corner, it's time for dyeing eggs (and inadvertently, dyeing hands.) It's easy to grab an egg-dyeing kit at the local supermarket or drug store, but...
Trump’s Budget Unites Farmers and Foodies
President Trump's budget request managed to do something few could have imagined: unite farmers and foodies.
The 'Rumble in the Jungle' of Farm Policy Debate
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, reduce your exposure to endocrine disruptors
Mapping the PFAS Contamination Crisis: New Data Show 610 Sites in 43 States
Tests Find Notorious ‘Forever Chemicals’ at Elevated Levels in Drinking Water at Minnesota Army Base
Drinking water supplies at a Minnesota National Guard facility were contaminated with elevated levels of highly toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to newly released Department of...
Clearing The Air
Although farming contributes little to the problem of airborne toxic particles, farmers suddenly find themselves in the middle of a heated battle over an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal to improve air quality by reducing emissions from electric utilities, chemical plants and oil companies.
Congress Poised to Put 9/11 Heroes at Risk
In less than 20 minutes, the terrorist-controlled airliners hit both towers of the World Trade Center complex on the morning of September 11, 2001. As tens of thousands of workers and residents in...
Fracking fears intensify as exploratory drilling continues in UK
The “fracking” boom that in recent years has flooded the United States with enormous new supplies of natural gas is now washing up on the shores of the United Kingdom, and with it concerns for the...
World Health Organization Says Antibiotic Resistance Sweeping Globe
In a report released earlier this week, the World Health Organization warned that excessive use of antimicrobials, including in livestock, has generated worldwide drug resistance that threatens a...
For Top White House Environment Job, Trump Taps Carbon Dioxide Fan
WASHINGTON – President Trump’s nomination of Kathleen Hartnett-White to chair the Council on Environmental Quality is his latest move to give polluters unfettered, unprecedented power inside the White...
PG&E profits soar, fueled by struggling ratepayers’ sky-high bills
An environmental organization disguised as a clothing company
Truth Wins Round One: ABC Confirms Stossel's Pesticide Results don't Exist
EPA’s Scott Pruitt Wants to Quash Safety Rules for Chemical, Fertilizer Plants
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt announced plans to repeal major safety rules for chemical and fertilizer plants, which President Obama's administration put in place to protect...
