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In the Corn Belt, planting of cover crops plateaus, even as interest grows in their potential to address the climate crisis

The Department of Agriculture has known for almost a century that planting cover crops between growing seasons benefits soil, water and air quality. Now the USDA, heartland politicians and the agricultural industry are touting cover crops as a solution to the climate emergency.
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals

EPA still failing to act on widespread toxic chemical contamination of U.S. drinking water

Millions of Americans are unwittingly drinking water that includes an invisible toxic cocktail made up of contaminants linked to cancer, brain damage and other serious health harms, the 2021 update to...
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water
Food

Your Game Plan for a Healthier Super Bowl Sunday

When it comes to eating holidays, Super Bowl Sunday comes in second only to Thanksgiving, with some reports suggesting that the average football fan consumes more than 2,400 calories during the game...

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

EWG News Roundup (10/25): 2019 National Tap Water Database, Nonstick Chemicals Taint Louisville Drinking Water and More

EWG News Roundup (10/25): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Toxic Chemicals
Water

Public Data Show Chemicals in Tap Water

Associated Press, John Heilprin Published December 20, 2005 Drinking water may have a lot more in it than just H20 and fluoride, according to an environmental group's analysis of records in 42 states.
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Toxic Chemicals

What you can do about the environmental risk factors that can lead to breast cancer

Cancer affects all communities. And breast cancer can occur in people of all genders
Research

California Water Subsidies

At a time when California water is scarce and expensive, taxpayers guarantee Central Valley farms an abundant and cheap supply through a subsidy worth up to $416 million a year, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) investigation that calculated, for the first time, federal water subsidies to each of more than 6,800 farms in the Central Valley Project (CVP).
Food & Water
Food

EWG for the Win: Tips for Your Healthiest Super Bowl Yet

The big game is right around the corner and millions of Americans are making winning game plans for a Super Bowl party packed with quintessential football fare. Super Bowl Sunday comes in second only...

EWG news roundup (9/16): Pesticides found in kids’ fruit snacks, cryptocurrency ethereum makes the move to 99.95 percent less energy and more

EWG news roundup (9/16): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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EWG News Roundup (2/28): EPA Opens Multiple Criminal Probes of PFAS Polluters, Trump’s Toll on Children’s Health and More

EWG News Roundup (2/28): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (1/10): Trump Threatens To Derail PFAS Action, California Fails To Test Infants for Lead and More

EWG News Roundup (1/10): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Watching the Future Wash Away

Bad federal policy and intensifying storms are washing away the rich dark soils in the Midwest that made this country an agricultural powerhouse and that remain the essential foundation of a healthy...
Farming & Agriculture
Factory Farms
Farm Pollution

Methodology

Animal feeding operations identification

EWG received a list of permitted animal feeding operations, or AFOs, from the Wisconsin DNR (WIDNR, 2018), which listed the dominant animal type and number of animal units, or AU, for each operation. This dataset was used for all counties except Kewaunee, for which EWG used a dataset derived

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (8/23): Big Energy Bends the Truth About Solar, Trump Team Hypocrites on Asbestos and More

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

Food & Water
Food

EWG’s Food Scores Helps People Find Out What’s Really In Their Food

Today, Environmental Working Group released Food Scores: Rate Your Plate, an easy-to-use food database and mobile app that will house ratings and a vast array of other information for more than 80,000...

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EWG News Roundup (11/20): Biden Administration Prioritizing Children’s Health, Justice for Black Farmers, EWG’s Thanksgiving Tips and More

EWG News Roundup (11/20): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

State of American drinking water

For too many Americans, turning on their faucets for a glass of water is like pouring a cocktail of chemicals. Lead, arsenic, the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS and many other substances are often found in drinking water at potentially unsafe levels, particularly in low-income and underserved communities. From the lead contamination crisis in Flint, Mich., to widespread radium pollution in
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Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill’s Passage

Behind the thin green gloss Congressional leaders spread across the subsidy-laden 2008 farm bill, key Democratic lawmakers are hacking away at promises to expand conservation and other environmental programs.
Farm
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate
Household & Consumer Products
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (10/26): More Kids’ Foods with Monsanto’s Roundup, Eating Organic Helps Prevent Cancer and More

EWG News Roundup (10/26): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG news roundup (3/11): Decades of FDA failure to act on ‘forever chemicals,’ how cancer-causing benzene ends up in cosmetics and more

EWG news roundup (3/11): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
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Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (8/11): Formaldehyde in Salons and Contaminants in Well Water

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

Five Reasons to Skip Bottled Water

Over the course of a week, EWG highlights five important reasons to skip bottled water and opt for filtered tap water instead.
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water

First shot in the 2007 farm bill debate?

Delta Farm Press, David Bennett Published May 4, 2006 In what could be the first significant shot fired in the 2007 farm bill debate, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released a report on how...

EWG news roundup (8/20): EPA bans the use of brain-damaging pesticide on food, USDA expands food assistance benefits and more

EWG news roundup (8/20): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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