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Speaker McCarthy should target farm subsidies for the wealthy, not food stamps
This week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made ending food assistance for many hungry people one of his demands for raising the debt ceiling.
Pamper Mom for Mother’s Day: 20 gift ideas inspired by EWG VERIFIED®
Get ready to celebrate your mom. This Mother’s Day, pamper her by choosing from an array of healthier skin care products, makeup and fragrances. To help, we’ve compiled a list of gift recommendations...
The Pentagon’s contamination time bomb: Cleanup backlog outpaces funding
The Department of Defense is failing to confront an almost $4 billion increase in the cost of cleaning up contaminated sites, many polluted by the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. And its cleanup...
Yet another pollinator, the monarch butterfly, is being threatened by toxic pesticides
The Eastern migratory monarch, the pretty orange and black butterfly that migrates through your garden come springtime and helps pollinate your flowers, is a welcome sight. But it’s facing serious...
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EWG: In the intensifying climate crisis, a hotter Southwest spurs rising heat-related crop insurance costs
A new Environmental Working Group analysis shows a clear connection between rising temperatures linked to climate change in the Southwest and the region’s growing crop insurance costs for heat-related crop damage and losses.
Biden EPA moves closer to total ban of toxic weedkiller DCPA
The Environmental Protection Agency this week released part of its health assessment showing the weedkiller DCPA, sold under the brand Dacthal and widely used on U.S. food for decades, poses serious...
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Getting ‘forever chemicals’ out of drinking water: EWG’s guide to PFAS water filters
Taking ‘forever chemicals’ out of drinking water: EWG’s guide to PFAS water filters. Discover the most effective water filters for reducing PFAS contamination in your water. EWG's extensive tests reveal brands that achieve up to 100% elimination of measurable PFAS.
Funding for climate-smart agriculture critical to tackling the climate emergency
If Congress cuts billions in climate-smart funding for agriculture in the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, to increase farm subsidies, U.S. farmers could soon become the nation’s leading source of...
Spending bill shortchanges defense communities hammered by PFAS pollution
The House version of the Defense Department spending bill for Fiscal Year 2024 cuts spending to clean up contamination from “forever chemicals” and other toxic pollutants by 30 percent – from $1.6...
Congress shouldn’t create a polluter holiday for ‘forever chemicals’
With more than 2,800 contaminated sites across the U.S., pollution from the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS has created an urgent national health crisis. But rather than hold the polluting...
EWG applauds Senate National Defense Authorization Act provisions tackling ‘forever chemicals’
The Environmental Working Group applauds the Senate Armed Services Committee for including several provisions to tackle the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in the National Defense Authorization Act...
Bad chemistry: FDA’s broken chemical review system
For decades, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed chemical companies to decide whether most food chemicals are safe. EWG recently found 99 percent of the food chemicals that have entered the...
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‘Forever chemicals’ found in water coast to coast builds case for strict EPA limits
The findings are just a small sample of what to expect when the Environmental Protection Agency releases first-time data from thousands of public water systems across the U.S. that is likely to show the full scale of the PFAS problem is magnitudes of order worse.
EWG comments to USDA on reforms to the prevented planting provision of the federal Crop Insurance Program
The Environmental Working Group submits comments to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and Risk Management Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, urging the agency to reform the prevented...
EWG tests find four water filters that effectively remove ‘forever chemicals’ from home taps
New laboratory tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group found four water filters that reduce the detected “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in sampled drinking water by nearly 100 percent...
EWG comments to EPA on DCPA
The Environmental Working Group submits comments to the Environmental Protection Agency urging the agency to cancel all uses of DCPA and to revoke DCPA food tolerances.
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Survey finds use of personal care products up since 2004 – what that means for your health
A new Morning Consult survey reveals the average adult uses 12 personal care products a day, from shampoos to soaps and deodorants to lipsticks and more. And EWG finds the products could be made with 112 unique chemical ingredients, including some that may pose health risks.
Corn Belt farmers could dramatically reduce nitrous oxide emissions with a handful of conservation practices
Widespread adoption of six simple farm stewardship practices by corn farmers in the Midwest could dramatically reduce nitrous oxide emissions, EWG has found. Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas that is...
EWG comments to California DTSC on proposed inclusion of microplastics to the Candidate Chemical List
Attached are EWG submitted comments to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control supporting the listing of microplastics to the state agency's Candidate Chemical List.
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Federal Crop Insurance Program reforms can help farmers adapt to climate crisis and cut taxpayer costs
Farmers both contribute to the climate crisis – they’re responsible for producing at least 11 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions – and can also be devastated by its harmful effects, with extreme...
The macro issues of microplastics
The snap of a coffee lid, the pop of a chip bag opening, the crinkle of an empty wrapper – all ways that we use plastic before discarding and forgetting about it. But we’re reminded of the pollution...
