Today we filed a federal lawsuit to block nanosilver, a potent antimicrobial pesticide, from market access. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has conditionally registered nanosilver for use in textiles including such things as clothing, baby blankets and pillow cases.

The "conditional" part of the registration means that EPA...

Big business chemical industries have repeatedly blocked the Environmental Protection Agency and other government bodies from assessing the harms of hazardous chemicals. NRDC provides a meticulous accounting of the evidence behind this in "The Delay Game." This new report, released today, uses three chemicals, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene (TCE) and...

Today is a good day for public health! EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced her intention to regulate perchlorate, a toxic chemical that contaminates water and food across the country. The EPA has only been trying to do so since 2002 -- the whole Bush Administration! Up to now the Bush...

Today, after years of pushing by NRDC and others, EPA announced that it is cancelling all - ALL- uses of the pesticide endosulfan. Yay! Endosulfan is a toxic, long-lasting pesticide that travels through the atmosphere and ends up in the...

I won't bury the lead: last week the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the most prestigious international body for cancer assessment in the world, determined that sufficient evidence exists to link formaldehyde with leukemia, a cancer...

In NRDC's new atrazine report we analyzed a mountain of data showing widespread water contamination from atrazine, a toxic herbicide. The data was mostly, but not all, generated by Syngenta, the main manufacturer of atrazine. Are you drinking atrazine in your tap water? Possibly. Fishing, swimming, or boating...