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EWG News Roundup (12/20): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

You may know that many conventional oat cereals contain troubling amounts of the carcinogenic pesticide glyphosate. But another toxic pesticide may be contaminating your kids' breakfast.

EWG News Roundup (8/30): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Myron Ebell, head of President-elect Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency transition team, is a notorious denier of global warming whose biography unashamedly notes that activists consider...

EWG News Roundup (5/31): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

A New York Times article last week (Aug. 11) explained the problem of “superweeds” but failed to connect the dots between increasing use of the toxic defoliant known as 2,4-D and the serious health...

EWG News Roundup (9/27): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

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

On Wednesday, a second jury in eight months found that glyphosate, the signature ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto's weedkiller Roundup, causes cancer. The plaintiff in the case was awarded $80 million in...

EWG News Roundup (8/23): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

On Thursday, a congressional investigation revealed it had found that a number of widely sold baby food brands are tainted with dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, cadmium...

EWG news roundup (7/30): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

An editorial in the Washington Post this week (March 30) claimed that if genetically modified foods – GMOs – are required to be labeled, the world's poorest will suffer.

Before he became President Trump's pick to oversee the nation's chemical safety, Michael Dourson argued for a weak drinking water standard for a rocket fuel chemical that impairs babies' developing...

Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler told a Senate oversight committee today that the scores of rollbacks of environmental and public health regulations under the Trump administration...

The food industry insists America’s obesity crisis can be chalked up to simple math – people eat too much and exercise too little.

It was a year of both encouraging progress and frustrating setbacks for public health and the environment, as EWG continued to provide the information Americans need to protect themselves from toxic...

Should GMO foods be labeled? Legislation passed by the House would block state GMO labeling laws and make it virtually impossible for the FDA to ever craft a national GMO labeling system.

In an op-ed published last Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle , EWG President and longtime Bay Area resident Ken Cook argued that state regulators should save California’s popular rooftop solar...

EWG News Roundup (12/13): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

A new study by Purdue University claims that if all American farmers switch to growing non-GMO crops, food will cost more, crop yields will be lower and more land will be needed to grow our food.

EWG's News Roundup (10/27): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

News Roundup (12/21): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.