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A Prairie Home Companion Pokes Fun at Iowa Corn
Loophole Deja Vu: Senate Climate Bill's Agriculture Offsets Include Polluter Giveaway
Jimmy Kimmel's Celery Vs. Gummy Bear Calorie Test
Personal care products are largely unregulated. The FDA does not even require safety testing of ingredients in personal care products before they are used.
Shopper's Guide to Pesticides
California's Skewed Farm Subsidy Priorities
What the Chemical Lobby Wants
Let's call it like it is. The Chemical Safety Improvement Act, introduced in the Senate two weeks ago, is no “bipartisan breakthrough,” as some have heralded it.
Seizing a Watershed Moment
Trouble Downstream: Upgrading Conservation Compliance
National Tap Water Quality Database
Strong Message to Lawmakers on Chemical Policy Reform
Why would 34 lawyers and law professors, 24 national non-profit organizations and 13 California-based groups all write Congress to oppose something called the Chemical Safety Improvement Act?
What Monsanto Doesn’t Want You To See
When consumers across Europe started campaigning for GMO labeling in the early 1990s, Monsanto released a series of advertisements in support of mandatory GMO labels.
New Crop Insurance Programs Lavish Supersized Payouts on Farmers
A new report shows that some farmers could receive larger payments under newly implemented crop insurance programs than they would have through the discredited -- and now defunct -- direct payments...
DIY Don't
In between blizzards, you may be thinking of installing insulation to save money and energy.
Five Noteworthy Findings from EWG’s Guide to Healthy Cleaning
Organic Fruits and Vegetables Co-Star in a Healthy Diet
What makes a healthy diet? Adopting a low-fat diet didn't make Americans healthier. But does that mean “paleo” is the way to go?
What About Farm Subsidy Fraud?
Based on this week's House Agriculture Committee hearings, you might think it's the food stamp program – and not the heavily subsidized farm subsidy program – that is plagued by fraud and abuse.
U.S. to Cut Food Waste in Half by 2030
Nearly 40 percent of the food the U.S. produces ends up in the trashcan. From there, it rots in a landfill and pollutes our atmosphere with greenhouse gases. That's 300 million barrels of oil a year...
Five Couches Without Fire Retardants You Can Buy Right Now
Do you know that your couch may be toxic to you and your kids? A weak federal chemical safety law and poorly designed state fire safety standards fail to protect Americans from thousands of dangerous...
Where is Triclosan Still Approved for Use?
Sunscreen Ingredient is Toxic to Coral Reefs
New evidence shows that a sunscreen ingredient EWG has long urged people to avoid is damaging to coral reefs. A study published [Oct. 20] in the journal Archives of Environmental Contamination and...
“Obamacare” of Crop Insurance? Not Exactly.
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) will oppose a budget deal because $3 billion in savings come at the expense of giant crop insurance companies. In his statement, Rep. Cramer called a proposal to limit...
Nitrate pollution plagues Midwestern rivers
A recent study by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey has concluded that the water quality in 22 rivers over the past 65 years is terrible and not getting better, judging by the concentration of...