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Check Your Home for Cancer-Causing Radon
You've installed smoke detectors and tested for carbon monoxide. But could another dangerous gas be sneaking into your home?
USGS detects ‘forever chemicals’ in 16 states’ water wells
Obama’s Top Food Policy Wins
It's hard to think of an administration that has done more to change what Americans eat and how we grow our food than the Obama administration.
Direct Payments Not Dead Yet – For Cotton Farmers like Fincher
The bill Rep. Fincher voted to support as a member of the House Agriculture Committee does indeed end direct payments – except for cotton farmers like… Fincher.
EWG applauds National Defense Authorization Act provisions tackling ‘forever chemicals’
Organic Produce Reduces Exposure to Pesticides, Research Confirms
Consumers can markedly reduce their intake of pesticide residues and their exposure to antibiotic-resistant bacteria by choosing organic produce and meat, according to researchers at Stanford...
Plant-centered recipe resources for a healthy lifestyle
The 23andMe Farm Bill?
Under current law, numerous loopholes in federal farm subsidy programs distribute the lion's share of farm subsidies to the largest and richest farms
Re-doubling my commitment to organic food
Trump’s Full-Scale War on Food
President Trump is waging a full-scale campaign to roll back decades of progress toward making America's food safer, healthier and more clearly labeled.
Update: The PFAS Contamination Crisis is Still Spreading
FDA needs to protect people and the environment from triclosan contamination
Lakes With Algae Outbreaks May Also Be Tainted With E. Coli
Toxic algae outbreaks – slimy, smelly blooms of microorganisms, triggered by polluted farm runoff into lakes and rivers – can cause nausea, vomiting and more serious, longer-term health impacts, such...
Ending Hunger: The Problem is Poverty
If we're going to succeed in feeding the world, it will be because we educate and train farmers in countries with persistent hunger and develop innovative and strategic ways to lift people out of...
Kids' Food a Fly Won't Touch
First Class to Nairobi and 2 tons of carbon credits, please
Dog Deaths Linked to Harmful Algae Blooms
House passes bill to protect firefighters from ‘forever chemicals’
EWG News Roundup (5/10): Expanding PFAS Contamination Crisis, Golden State Bans Brain Damaging Pesticide and More
EWG Applauds Passage of Amendment to Designate PFAS as “Hazardous Substances”
The House of Representatives today approved an amendment to designate PFAS as “hazardous substances” under CERCLA, the Superfund law.
Utilities fighting to stymie growth of California rooftop solar power
Brain Food
On January 12, 2001, government health officials issued new advisories warning women to limit fish consumption during pregnancy to avoid exposing their unborn children to unsafe levels of methylmercury. Methylmercury can cross the placenta and cause learning deficits and developmental delays in children who are exposed even to relatively low levels in the womb. The principal exposure route for the
What you can do about the environmental risk factors that can lead to breast cancer
