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San Francisco could soon become the first U.S. city to prohibit chemical flame retardants in all new upholstered furniture and children's products sold in the city, including online sales.

President Trump's nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency has raised widespread concern among public health, reproductive health, labor, business and environmental...

People in developing nations don't go hungry because there's not enough food to go around. It's because they're poor.

News outlets around the country covered the Obama administration's release of new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, praising the good, scolding the bad and shining a bright light on the ugly.

Is your family heading outdoors for sunny days at the beach, pool or park? When skin gets wet or sweaty, sunscreens may not work as well as you expect.

Throughout most of the 20th Century, American cities and homeowners installed lead pipes and solder in their tap water delivery systems – creating a toxic legacy for all of us. And the problem isn't...

Eating peanuts during infancy – rather than avoiding them – may be the key to preventing long-term peanut allergies in children. The benefit of early exposure persists even if kids later take a year...

A child's laundry basket is home to an assortment of stains, spots, strange colors and unwelcome odors. But most stain removers on the market contain hazardous ingredients and make questionable claims...

Despite major improvements in treatment and survival, children's cancer rates are rising in the United States, leaving parents and scientists alike searching for evidence of what's behind the trend. A...

Your kids rush home after school, sports practice or a busy day at the park, searching for food to replenish their empty tanks. Here are our tips and suggestions for snacks to satisfy even the...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced a phase-out of a harmful class of ingredients to reduce the amount of damaging trans fat in your family's food.

Confused by the labels on turkeys? EWG helps you sort out the facts with a new label decoder.

Between 2014 and 2015, three federal farm subsidy programs paid farmers multiple times for the same loss in crop yield or decline in crop price.

Your kids spend most of the day at school, and you may be surprised at what they could be breathing in their classrooms, cafeterias, hallways and gymnasiums: deadly asbestos fibers.

The study of foam from 20 old and new crib mattresses found that mattresses release up to 30 different types of volatile organic compounds, also known as VOCs, among them, phenol, a strong skin and...

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

It's not just a poor diet and lack of exercise that can make kids overweight.

At long last, the veil of secrecy over chemicals in cleaning products is lifting.

EWG News Roundup (12/22): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

In 2017, EWG once again pushed the envelope in our mission to protect public health and the environment and empower all Americans to make better decisions about their safety and well-being.

There were plenty of good reasons to oppose President Trump's nomination of Michael Dourson to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency. Dourson, who was opposed by public health...

Standing before some of the nation's most heavily subsidized farmers, President Trump said that America's farmers would be “forgotten no more.” Have the largest, most successful farmers been forgotten...

Americans have good reasons to question the quality of their drinking water.

EWG News Roundup (1/19): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.