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Healthy Food Gets Short Shrift

Fruit and vegetable growers have historically been left out of agriculture policy, even though they provide foods that are vital for improving America's nutrition and reducing the costly toll of diet-related diseases. The 2008 farm bill began to correct this misguided policy by providing modest but important gains for programs that promote the production, research and marketing of fruits, nuts and

EWG News Roundup (12/20): Congress Fails on PFAS, Trump EPA’s Bear Hug for Hormone-Disrupting Pesticide, and More

EWG News Roundup (12/20): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup (1/10): Trump Threatens To Derail PFAS Action, California Fails To Test Infants for Lead and More

EWG News Roundup (1/10): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

Study: PFAS Exposure Through Skin Causes Harm Similar to Ingestion

Exposure through the skin to the toxic fluorinated chemical once used to make Teflon could pose the same health hazards as ingesting the compound in water or food, according to a new animal study from...

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Troubled Waters

Water that runs off fields treated with chemical fertilizers and manure is loaded with nitrogen and phosphorus, two potent pollutants that inevitably end up in rivers and lakes and set off a cascade of harmful consequences, contaminating the drinking water used by millions of Americans. Treating this water after the fact to clean up the contamination is increasingly expensive, difficult and, if

EWG News Roundup (2/7): California Bans Neurotoxic Pesticide, Endocrine Disruptors in Menstrual Products and More

EWG News Roundup (2/7): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

FDA Studies: ‘Short-chain’ PFAS Chemicals More Toxic Than Previously Thought

New studies by the Food and Drug Administration indicate that a common fluorinated chemical in food packaging and stain-resistant carpets and textiles is much more toxic than earlier studies by the...

Energy
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy
Federal & State Energy Policy

The Coronavirus Stimulus Must Address Three Crises: The Pandemic, the Economy and Climate Change

Congress is on the brink of approving the biggest stimulus package in U.S. history – $2.2 trillion to fight the public health and economic crises of the coronavirus pandemic. Subsequent rounds of...

Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

UPDATED MAP: Suspected and Confirmed PFAS Pollution at U.S. Military Bases

The toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS are now confirmed or suspected at 678 military installations, according to EWG's updated analysis of Defense Department records.
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

Update: The PFAS Contamination Crisis is Still Spreading

The known extent of contamination of American communities with toxic fluorinated compounds, known as PFAS chemicals, continues to grow at an alarming rate.
Toxic Chemicals
Energy
Children’s Health
Fossil & Nuclear
Federal & State Energy Policy

Despite EPA Knowledge of Health Hazards, Fracking Chemicals Remain Secret

The Environmental Protection Agency knows that dozens of the chemicals used in fracking pose health hazards. The agency not only allows their use, but also lets the oil and gas industry keep the...

Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food

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...
Energy
Renewable Energy
Midwest
Federal & State Energy Policy

State Renewables Standards Propel the Clean Energy Revolution

Thirty states, from Hawai'i to Vermont, have adopted renewable energy standards that require utilities to produce more and more energy from wind and solar.
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Going, Going, Gone!

Across America's heartland, in county after county and state after state, the landscape-devouring machinery of modern agriculture has been churning through millions of acres of irreplaceable wetlands and fragile, highly erodible grassland and prairie.
Toxic Chemicals
2,4-D
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

Big Corn and Soy Go on the Defensive As Cancer Experts Probe Weed Killers

News that the world's cancer experts are taking a fresh look at 2,4-D has farm organizations worried.

Glyphosate
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Food
Food

GMO Labeling Urgent As USDA Frees Growers to Use New Monsanto GMO Corn

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week (March 23) it will allow farmers to plant a new strain of genetically modified (GMO) corn created by Monsanto to be tolerant of the week killers...

Toxic Chemicals
2,4-D
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Food

Monsanto’s GMO Weed Killer Sprayed on Fields Close to 12,000 Churches

Genetically engineered crops, commonly called “GMOs,” have led to an explosion in the use of toxic weed killers linked to cancer and other health problems – and people in America's heartland are most...
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Poisons in the Pipeline

On March 29, 2013, a pipeline carrying tar sands oil ruptured in Arkansas, sending an inky river through a residential neighborhood in the town of Mayflower. A concerned neighbor scooped up a sample of the spilled oil, which Environmental Working Group later arranged to have tested by an independent laboratory.
Food & Water
Farming & Agriculture
Glyphosate
Pesticides

EPA: Popular Weedkiller Threatens Wildlife

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday (June 2) released a draft risk assessment confirming what some scientists have been warning for years: the weedkiller atrazine likely poses a risk to...
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water
Food

Attack of the Frankenfoods: Genetically Engineered Crops Use 26% More Pesticides, and Growing

The dedicated folks at The Organic Center released a hard hitting report today, Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use: The First Thirteen Years.

EWG News Roundup (9/28): Calif. Leads Nation to Protect Kids from Lead, Trump Fights Pesticide Ban, Top Children’s Health Official Ousted at EPA and More

EWG News Roundup (9/28): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

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Paradise Lost

The reality is that the nation's primary prairie and wetlands protection program – the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) – was not designed to meet the environmental challenges being created by record prices for farm commodities. Because the majority of the land in the program is taken out of agricultural production under 10- and 15-year rental agreements with the owners, cropland that had
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate

Roundup at Recess? How to Get Cancer-Causing Pesticides Off Your Local Playground

Two University of California, Berkeley alumnae recently succeeded in convincing the entire UC system to suspend its use of the cancer-causing pesticide glyphosate in its landscaping. If they can do...

Food & Water
Farming & Agriculture
Household & Consumer Products
Toxic Chemicals

EWG News Roundup (12/16): Michelle Pfeiffer Joins Board and EWG Sues FDA

Some of the biggest news to come out of EWG since its inception more than 22 years ago happened this week, and it wasn't a consumer guide or big policy win. Golden Globe winner, three-time Academy...