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Out of the Mouths of Babes
To judge by the results of their budget-slashing, all-night tea party a few weeks back, Republicans must have swarmed out of their caucus and onto the floor of the House of Representatives with a...
EWG testifies on behalf of clean drinking water (...and bagels)
Environmental Working Group's Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt made his fourth appearance today (March 1, 2011) before the New York City Council's Committee on Environmental Protection to highlight the...
If you ask a caveman a chemistry question...
Good news. Maine governor Paul LePage claims he has read the scientific research on the health dangers posed by bisphenol-A, the plastic component and synthetic estrogen.
Women in Agriculture - by the Numbers
Big Ag is big business – and big profits. And when anyone raises questions about the billions of tax dollars lavished on the largest industrial growers of corn, soybeans and other commodity crops or...
Fluoride in your water: How much is too much?
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposes that public water systems cut back on the amount of fluoride they add to drinking water.
Farming the Crowd at TEDx Manhattan’s “Changing the Way We Eat” Conference
Attending the TEDx Manhattan event on the future of food and farming was a day-long drink from a fire hose of cutting-edge ideas, sobering realities and sincere enthusiasm about how America can eat...
Borax: Not the green alternative it's cracked up to be
I'm just going to start with the bad news, OK? Borax is not a green cleaning ingredient, as many have been led to believe.
Bottled Water Industry to EWG: Shut Up!
When the head of a public interest group (like, say, EWG) receives a threatening letter from one of the nation's top industry lobbyists, it generally means he's done something right. On January 27...
What's Inside: Clorox Shares a Little
Last week (Feb. 9), Clorox surprised me when it took a small step along the path to complete disclosure - and real consumer empowerment - by releasing a list of all the fragrance ingredients used in...
Obama Would Cut Subsidies to Wealthy Farms
The Obama administration's proposed 2012 federal budget released today targets several wasteful agriculture programs, including cutting $4.25 billion over 10 years from subsidies to large farm...
Stewart to Pickens: "Is it horribly unsafe, is that what this fracking is?"
On a recent episode of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show," Texas oil and gas executive T. Boone Pickens proudly declared, "I have fracked 3,000 wells in my life. I have never seen anything damaged."
Money Talks; Hunger Doesn’t
America is emerging from a financial calamity that claimed millions of jobs. Hundreds of thousands of families struggle every day just to feed their kids. The tenuous economy has increased pressure on...
What’s That You’re Putting in Your Tank?
The government's decision to allow sale of gasoline blended with up to 15 percent ethanol, so-called E15 gasoline, means that one of these days we'll likely be pulling into gas stations that could...
EPA (Finally) Regulates Rocket Fuel in Tap Water
Perchlorate, a common ingredient in rocket fuel and a potent thyroid toxin, will be regulated in drinking water, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced yesterday (Feb...
New York State: 85 chemicals to avoid
When someone with $8 billion a year in purchasing power tells the world what they don't want, marketers and manufacturers pay attention.
Senate Hearing Focuses on EWG's Chromium-6 Study
Environmental Working Group's recent national study that detected widespread drinking water contamination by carcinogenic chromium-6 was the subject of intense discussion this morning at a well...
Gingrich for Free Markets (Except for Corn Ethanol)
The Iowa caucuses are more than a year away but potential 2012 presidential hopefuls are already parachuting into corn country to pander to Big Ag. Perennially coy Newt Gingrich is only the latest to...
On Bed Bugs: Prevent,
Last summer I slept in New York City. To anyone familiar with sleeping in New York City (not me), bedbugs is just part of the deal. When my cousin, in whose groovy, old loft I was crashing, suggested...
Big Ag’s “Celery Calculator” Lowballs Pesticide Risk
Big agribusiness hates it when we talk dirty. The Dirty Dozen that is, EWG's list of fresh fruits and vegetables that are most likely to carry pesticide residues.