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Potassium Bromate

Few foods evoke an image of wholesomeness like fresh-baked bread. But the flour used in many commercial baked goods may include an additive that's been linked to cancer.

Study: Women of Color Exposed to More Toxic Chemicals in Personal Care Products

Women of color use more beauty products and are disproportionately exposed to worrisome chemicals compared to white women, according to a new study.

Unlimited Subsidies for Corn, None for Health Care Coverage

When it comes to farm subsidies, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., says his farmers should “receive the long-term certainty they deserve.”

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California’s Fracking Fluids

The fluids used in hydraulic fracturing of oil wells in California contain dozens of chemicals that are hazardous to human health, including substances linked to cancer, reproductive harm and hormone disruption, an EWG analysis of state data shows.

From Hair Care to Hamburgers, Companies Get On Board the Transparency Train

Americans want and have a right to know what's in the stuff they buy. Manufacturers and marketers are finally joining the unstoppable movement for product transparency.

Junk Rocket Science: How Trump’s EPA Nominee Greenwashed Brain-Damaging Chemical

Before he became President Trump's pick to oversee the nation's chemical safety, Michael Dourson argued for a weak drinking water standard for a rocket fuel chemical that impairs babies' developing...

San Francisco Moves to Protect Children from Flame Retardant Chemicals

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.

Trump Chemical Safety Nominee Sparks Widespread Concern

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...

Rice and Beans: $1.20 in New York, $73 in Haiti

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

Nonstick Chemicals: A Hydra-Headed Family of Toxic Compounds

Banning or restricting toxic chemicals one at a time is like fighting the mythical hydra: For each head cut off, multiple replacements appear that may be just as hazardous. There's no better example...

If You Are What You Eat, Are We Making Children Nonstick?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on any given day one in three American children – no matter their age, race or family income – eat fast food. Hamburgers, french fries...

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Fooling Ourselves

Drinking water, lakes and rivers in Iowa and across the Corn Belt are in serious trouble because of polluted farm runoff. To tackle the problem, for decades we've taken the approach favored by agricultural interests – making federal tax dollars available for conservation practices that curb runoff, encouraging farmers to adopt those practices, then hoping enough of them volunteer to do the right

Despite Rising Demand, U.S. Doesn’t Do Enough to Support Organic Transition

More and more Americans want to avoid toxic pesticides on the foods they are buying and feeding their families. But the U.S. invests too little in growing more organic food. As demand for organic food...

Will More Farm Subsidies Help the Rural Economy?

It's an understatement to say “there is real potential for a crisis in rural America,” as House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conaway warned before a hearing on the new farm bill.

News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (March 24)

Here are several of this past week's deep dives on developments coming out of the Trump White House.

News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (April 21)

Here are several of this past week's deep dives on developments coming out of the Trump White House.

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Cutting the Fat

The cost to taxpayers of providing crop insurance to farmers has more than tripled since 2001, rising from an average of about $3 billion a year in 2001-2003 to more than $10 billion a year in 2012-2014. The increase is largely the result of sharp jumps in the cost of subsidizing both farmers' premiums and the companies that sell crop insurance.

Attack on Food Safety Rules Is Life or Death Issue for Allergy Sufferers

Food allergies don't just cause hives or breathing problems – they can also kill. That's why the so-called Regulatory Accountability Act, or RAA, moving through Congress should be called the License...

The Senate is About to Pass a Bill That Could Keep Asbestos and Other Deadly Chemicals Legal

Seat belts. Two pilots in every cockpit. Cribs that don't strangle infants. These federal rules, and many others, have saved a lot of lives over the years. In the process they've made American...

‘Retired’ Sensitive Cropland: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

Instead of expanding CRP, more funding in the 2018 Farm Bill should go to both of these highly effective programs. That would be a better deal for taxpayers, the environment and public health.