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EWG Updates The Pesticide Shopper’s Guide
Brain-Damaging Pesticide No Longer Sold in California
Farms in California can no longer buy a neurotoxic pesticide that can damage children's brains and nervous systems. As of today, chlorpyrifos is banned for sale in the state that grows most of the...
Are Pesticide Sprayers "Health Experts?" Seriously?
Study: American Pesticide Levels Are High
Unsafe levels of pesticide residues in food
America's schools have a pesticide problem
Forest Service Fires Pesticide Whistleblower
Peach & Pesticide Pie: a summer favorite?
Pesticide Defenders Say the Darndest Things
Tell the EPA: Ban Bee-Killing Pesticides
Neonics have been linked to massive decline in bee populations, and new research suggests they may also harm kids' developing nervous systems and brains.
We have a chance to force the EPA to listen to consumers instead of the pesticide industry, and to finally BAN neonics!
Can we count on you to join us?
Pesticide Industry Propaganda: The Real Story
The health risks of pesticides in Stanislaus County
EWG’s first major break was born through radical team coordination – the science was all there to show that kids’ growing bodies are exposed to too many harmful chemicals, which affect them in a way that’s different from the way they harm the adult body.
Pesticides: Testing, Kids, Regulation and You
EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce
EWG charged today that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to tell Americans – as required under federal law - tthat they have a right to know about the risks of pesticide exposure and...
Pesticide in Soap, Toothpaste and Breast Milk - Is It Kid-Safe?
Warning: this pesticide may be toxic to children and fish
Dr. Weil on EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce
EPA Chief Backs Another Pesticide Harmful to Kids
A pesticide called dicamba has become a poster child for the arms race between ever-stronger weeds and ever-stronger weed killers.
Gov. Newsom Bans Use of Brain-Damaging Pesticide In California
In a major move to protect California children, farm workers and their families, the administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today it will ban the use of a toxic pesticide shown to cause brain...
Pruitt’s EPA Cedes Pesticide Oversight to Agriculture Department
Internal Environmental Protection Agency documents show that Administrator Scott Pruitt has effectively relinquished the EPA's oversight of pesticide safety to the Department of Agriculture, said...
Widely Used Hormone-Disrupting Pesticides Put Millions at Risk
The European Union just banned two agricultural weed killers linked to infertility, reproductive problems and fetal development – the first-ever EU ban on endocrine-disrupting pesticides. That's good...
Study Links Childhood Cancer and In-Home Pesticide Use
A new study by Harvard researchers provides disturbing evidence that children's exposure to household insecticides is linked to higher risks of childhood leukemia and lymphoma, the most common cancers...