EWG News Roundup (5/5): Salty School Lunches, Rocket Fuel in Food, and N.C. Factory Farms
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Chemicals and contaminants linked to cancer can be found in food, water and many other everyday products. However, no category of consumer products is subject to less government oversight than cosmetics and other personal care products.
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Dangerous Monsanto Chemical Remains in Thousands of Schools
Schools serving up to 14 million students may be contaminated with unsafe concentrations of PCBs leaching from caulks, sealants, and other aging building materials.
Required conservation practices poorly monitored, farmers consistently denied conservation money, large farms continue to reap l
As the five major commodity crops reap billions in taxpayer dollars each year, nearly 70 percent of farmer requests for voluntary conservation assistance go unfunded and soil erosion rules for subsidy...
The Smoking Spud: Documents Prove Potato Giant Is Behind Irrigation Scheme in Pineland Sands
For decades, R.D. Offutt – one of the largest agriculture conglomerates in the U.S. – has proudly evaded meaningful environmental review in Minnesota. Offutt has played a shell game using land swaps...
FDA is trying (again) to clean up your hand soap
The federal Food and Drug administration has announced proposed rules that could drive unnecessary and potentially dangerous products from the market -- antibacterial hand soaps like those marketed by...
Tampon shortage: Beware ‘forever chemicals’ in backup options
First there was a baby formula shortage, bare shelves where there should have been rows of packages. Now there’s a tampon supply problem – and publications from the New York Times and Sacramento Bee...
Honeywell lobbying Gov. Newsom to veto measure banning ‘forever chemicals’ from cosmetics products
Technology giant Honeywell is lobbying California Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto a bill that would ban the sale in the state of cosmetics intentionally made with the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS...
Newsom signs law banning toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from cosmetics in California
On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that bans intentionally added toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS from cosmetics sold in California.
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EWG News Roundup (5/29): Manure Overload in Minnesota, Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ on Military Bases and More
EWG News Roundup (5/29): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend
EWG Urges Ban On Toxic Soft Soap Additive
EWG urges EPA to work with FDA to ban all non-medical uses of triclosan, an antibacterial additive and potent hormone disruptor. In a letter to EPA's pesticide division EWG outlines new evidence that...
Using EWG Food Scores to navigate plant-based meats and how to swap in plants
Several years ago, EWG asked me to review the beta version of an app being developed to give shoppers valuable intel about their food choices. To say I was eager for this opportunity is an...
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Breakfast With a Dose of Roundup?
Popular oat cereals, oatmeal, granola and snack bars come with a hefty dose of the weed-killing poison in Roundup, according to independent laboratory tests commissioned by EWG.
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Hidden Carcinogen Taints Tap Water, Consumer Products Nationwide
An industrial solvent classified as a likely carcinogen, which is also a common impurity in cosmetics and household cleaners, was detected in samples of drinking water supplies for nearly 90 million Americans in 45 states, according to testing data from local utilities analyzed by EWG.
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Where is Triclosan Still Approved for Use?
Triclosan is an antimicrobial chemical that pollutes people and the environment.
EWG’s Comments to the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment on 1,2-DCE in Drinking Water
Below and attached are EWG’s comments to the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in support of a proposed update of the public health goals for Cis-/Trans- 1,2-Dichloroethylene...
Plant-centered recipe resources for a healthy lifestyle
As you embark on your journey, here are some plant-rich resources that have either been my go-to choices, or that pique my interest. I’ve woven them in with highlights from our blog series on cooking...
Millennial Momentum
I am a millennial – one of the roughly 50 million Americans born after 1980 and coming of age in the 21st Century. Generational theorists have called me lazy, narcissistic and entitled. But they've...
At Stake in the Senate TSCA Fight: The Fate of Asbestos
Many Americans probably believe asbestos was banned years ago, consigned to the trash bin of history, never to be seen again. Not so. This notorious human carcinogen is still legal for use in the U.S.
Press Release: Updated Tap Water Databases and Drinking Water Quality Analysis
Tap water in many large metropolitan areas is polluted with a cocktail of chemical contaminants. These pollutants usually don't violate any legal standards, but they often come in potentially toxic...
EWG news roundup (4/29): EPA to suspend all uses of toxic weedkiller, Duke Energy seeks to stifle clean energy in N.C. and more
EWG news roundup (4/29): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
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Ethanol Report 2012
Beware of higher ethanol gas. E-15 fuel could void warranties, damage small engines.
Stay current on TSCA reform progress
The Environmental Working Group's campaign for Kid-Safe Chemicals shifted into high gear exactly a week before the 40th anniversary of Earth Day (poetic justice), when Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)...
