Little yellow flags? Not in Connecticut
You know that old folk song about little boxes on the hillside? If it were written now, songwriter Melvina Reynolds would likely have added a verse about little yellow flags on the lawns. Those little...
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Pay to Spray
Pesticide companies, agribusiness, food corporations, and farm groups strongly support the passage of H.R. 1627 and S. 1166, the House and Senate versions of the so-called Food Quality Protection Act, which would implement an across-the-board rollback of current federal safeguards that protect the public from pesticides in the environment and the food supply.
Eating an Organic Diet May Reduce Your Cancer Risk
Frequently eating a variety of organic foods may significantly reduce your risk of developing cancer, according to a groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Much Ado about Giving Consumers What they Want
Over the past year, industrial produce growers and pesticide makers have made much ado about EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, which assembles federal testing data on many fruits and...
EWG Supporters Urge USDA to Stop Funding Pro-Pesticide Campaign with Taxpayer Dollars
The Environmental Working Group today will send the U.S. Department of Agriculture a petition signed by more than 50,000 EWG supporters who object to the department's grant of $180,000 to a California...
Illegal Herbicide Use on Monsanto GMOs Spurs Bitter Complaints
Remember when we told you that some farmers were illegally spraying the herbicide dicamba on Monsanto's new GMO crops? Well, the situation is getting worse.
Agriculture Is the Most Dangerous Industry for Child Workers – and the Trump Administration Is Making It Worse
Far more American children die working in agriculture than in any other industry, and thousands more are injured while working on farms, according to a recent little-noticed report by the...
EWG Wants You to Eat your Fruits and Vegetables
In June 1993, the Environmental Working Group released a report titled “Pesticides in Children's Food.” In the very first line of the forward to that study, EWG President Ken Cook had this advice for...
EWG News Roundup (3/10): Pruitt’s Climate Change Denial and Perdue’s Sketchy Ethics, Strawberries Top Dirty Dozen List
Here's some news you can use as you begin your weekend.
The House farm bill is bad news for children’s health and safety
There’s much to dislike about the House Republican farm bill – like taking food out of hungry childrens’ mouths while potentially exposing their bodies to more pesticides and supporting companies that...
More organophosphates please, Mom!
People may know that organic produce is a better bet - for our heath and the environment, yet only about 2% of U.S. food sales are organic. Yes, a paltry 2 percent.
EWG News Roundup (3/27): 2020 Dirty Dozen™, Keeping a Healthy Home During Coronavirus and More
EWG News Roundup (3/27): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Most Corn on the Cob Isn't GMO
The corn shoppers find on supermarket aisles and at farm stands is called “sweet corn” because it contains more sugar than its ancestor, field corn. People eat sweet corn fresh on or off the cob...
News Release
Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook demanded that ABC News President David Westin fire reporter John Stossel for fabricating a network-sponsored laboratory study and repeatedly broadcasting...
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Overexposed || Organophosphate Insecticides in Children's Food
Every day, nine out of ten American children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years are exposed to combinations of 13 different neurotoxic insecticides in the foods they eat. While the amounts consumed rarely cause acute illness, these "organophosphate" insecticides (OPs) have the potential to cause long term damage to the brain and the nervous system, which are rapidly growing and extremely
Comments to EPA request premarket safety testing for nanomaterials
EWG opposes an EPA pesticide office plan for conditional registration of a nanoscale silver chemical known as HeiQ AGS-20 and used as an antimicrobial, pesticide and textile preservative. EWG asks the...
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Attack of the Killer Weeds
Section 18 of the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act allows the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to grant "emergency" and "crisis" exemptions from pesticide health and safety standards for farmers facing sudden and potentially catastrophic pest infestations. By definition, granting these exemptions is a hurried procedure, accompanied by less than a full scientific study of
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The Facts About Diazinon
Diazinon is one of a class of pesticides called organophosphates (OPs), chemicals that were originally developed by the German company I.G. Farben as nerve gases during World World II.
Apples Top Dirty Dozen List for Fifth Year in a Row
Apples, peaches, and nectarines topped EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in ProduceTM list of the dirtiest, or most pesticide-contaminated, fruits and vegetables, a new analysis of U.S. government...
Safe - vs. Safer
The agribusiness trade group Alliance For Food and Farming (AFF) recently asked us this question: "EWG - do you agree that both conventional and organic fruits and vegetables are safe to eat - yes or...
DDT is not healthy for children and other living things
Imagine a group of gregarious nine and ten year old girls in the early 1960s, laughing and running through the streets of their neighborhood on a summer evening, following along behind a big truck --...
Ask EWG: How can I make my lawn non-toxic?
Ask EWG: How can I make my lawn non-toxic? We know spring has arrived when questions about lawn and garden care start arriving. Rick in Pennsylvania asks, "How can I keep my lawn green and healthy...
School lunch: More fruits & veggies, please!
Whether your child eats the school lunch or your own hand-packed version, there's a chance she might not be getting enough fruits and veggies. U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics show that...
Healthy Home Tip: Green cleaning this spring
Spring has sprung, so here at EWG our "to do" list now includes a little spring cleaning. Green cleaning, of course. Why green?
