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New EWG analysis: Of $7.4B spent on two of USDA’s biggest conservation programs in recent years, very little went to ‘climate-smart’ agriculture

Farmers received almost $7.4 billion in payments from two of the largest federal agricultural conservation programs between 2017 and 2020, but only a small proportion of these payments went to practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farming.
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Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Conservation
Farm Subsidies

USDA Conservation Stewardship Program could do more to tackle climate emergency

The Senate is considering a budget reconciliation bill this week to increase “climate-smart” spending on farm conservation efforts by $20 billion over five years, including over $4 billion in new...
Irragated farm
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

EWG applauds congressional letter urging EPA to designate PFAS hazardous substances

The Environmental Working Group applauds the 127 House of Representatives members who sent a letter today urging the Environmental Protection Agency to designate two PFAS “forever chemicals” as...
Food & Water
Food
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

FDA: Canned clams contaminated with extremely high levels of common ‘forever chemical’

Extremely highly levels of a common “forever chemical” linked to cancer have been detected in canned clams.
Canned clams
Consumer Guides

EWG’s Dirty Dozen Guide to Food Chemicals: The top 12 to avoid

Our food should be nourishing and safe to eat. But more than 10,000 chemicals are allowed in food sold in the U.S. Some are direct additives.
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Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Meat and Dairy Alternatives
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals
Pesticides

Getting started on your plant-powered kitchen

I hope you’ve garnered enough information from my alternative protein musings that you want to try doing things a little differently. Reshaping what and how you eat is a process, and it’s the small...

EWG news roundup (7/8): High levels of ‘forever chemical’ in canned clams, what you should know about toxic algae blooms and more

This week, Food and Drug Administration testing found extremely highly levels of a common type of “ forever chemical ” linked to cancer in canned clams. At least one company whose product was found to...

EWG News Roundup
Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate
Pesticides

CDC finds toxic weedkiller in 87 percent of children tested

About 87 percent of 650 children tested had detectable levels of the ubiquitous and toxic herbicide glyphosate in their urine, according to a new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and...
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

EWG applauds House passage of new ‘forever chemical’ actions and cleanup mandates

On Thursday night, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, a must-pass defense spending bill that contains several amendments tackling the...
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Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Flawed WHO report on ‘forever chemicals’ fails human health, EWG scientists find

A draft World Health Organization analysis of the two most notorious “forever chemicals” disregards hundreds of health risk studies, claiming there are too many uncertainties to calculate a safe...
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Change the Code, Not the Climate
Energy

EWG, Earthjustice and Greenpeace USA comments to the CFTC on request for information on climate-related financial risk of digital assets

Attached are EWG, Earthjustice and Greenpeace USA comments to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on their request for information on climate-related financial risk of digital assets.
Food & Water
Food
Water
Family Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
PFAS Chemicals
Phthalates

Poll: Nearly all Americans say government must ensure chemicals are safe before use in consumer products

Almost all Americans believe the federal government has a duty to ensure chemicals used in making consumer products are safe, and even more say companies aren’t doing enough to keep toxic substances...
Food & Water
Food
Water
Personal Care Products
Sunscreen
Household & Consumer Products
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Lead
Pesticides

How to protect kids during the EPA’s Children’s Health Month

The Environmental Protection Agency is celebrating national Children’s Health Month, with tips for shielding kids from potential health harms caused by lead contamination, pesticides on produce and...

Cosmetics

"Environmental Working Group (EWG) to the rescue."

As we change gears from the Hall of Shame and begin to focus on the upcoming annual EWG Sunscreen Database, EWG research was mentioned in a number of consumer health stories. The Washington Post ran a...
Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Farm Workers

EWG welcomes $65 million USDA plan to improve farmworker health and safety standards

The Environmental Working Group today welcomed a new proposal by the Department of Agriculture to spend $65 million on improving health and safety standards for farmworkers.
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

Military’s Filthy 50 sites contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’ haven’t started cleanup

The military has not begun cleanups at any of the 50 Department of Defense sites Congress has identified as highly contaminated with the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS – and it could be years...
Energy
Food & Water

Smart energy policy should conserve scarce clean water

Guaranteeing a clean and ample supply of water should be at the core of our energy policy. Sometimes Washington seems to have forgotten that. But a recent survey shows that the American people have...
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Ruffalo: New PFAS health advisories demands polluter accountability

The following is the statement of Activist and Actor Mark Ruffalo on the Environmental Protection Agency’s new PFAS health advisories
Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Toxic Chemicals

EWG welcomes FDA cosmetic reforms

EWG welcomes the cosmetic reforms included in S. 4348, and thanks Sens. Patty Murray and Richard Burr for making cosmetics reform a priority.
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

More than 2,000 communities have drinking water with ‘forever chemicals’ above new EPA levels

People living in more than 2,000 communities are drinking water with levels of the toxic forever chemicals known as PFAS that are above new health advisories released today by the Environmental...
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

House subcommittee boosts EPA’s budget to tackle toxic 'forever chemicals'

On Tuesday, the House Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee approved $126 million to address the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, in the Environmental Protection...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Pollution
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Bee-killing 'neonic' pesticides may also harm children’s health

Commonly referred to as neonics, neonicotinoids are insecticides frequently used as a seed-coating treatment for corn and soybeans and applied to a variety of fruits and vegetables. Their use in the U...
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

EWG applauds provisions tackling ‘forever chemicals’ in National Defense Authorization Act

Today, the Environmental Working Group applauds the House Armed Services Commmittee for including several provisions to tackle the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in the National Defense...
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Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Family Health
Children’s Health

Pervasive phthalates: New study links child exposure to cancer

Exposure to phthalates is widespread in the U.S., with more than three in four adults having detectable levels of the chemicals in their urine. And now a new study suggests an association between...
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