Environmental Working Group

Chemical Agriculture's Dirty Fight

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Maria Rodale, Alex Formuzis, Pesticides, Ewg, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Environmental Working Group, Organics, Food Quality Protection Act, Fqpa, Green News

by guest blogger Alex Formuzis, of the Environmental Working Group The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began testing fruits and vegetables for ...

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Give the Best Mother's Day Gift Ever: A Real Spring Cleaning

Amy Ziff | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Healthier Living, Breathing Easier, Clean Air, Spring Cleaning, Amy Ziff, Healthier, Mother's Day, Environmental Working Group, Fresh Air, Indoor Air Quality, Epa, Health, Common Harmful Home Toxins, Veritey, Gmos, Spring Cleaning Tips, Wellness, Healthy Living News

By conducting a health check-up this (and every) Mother's Day we can help our moms, ourselves, and all of our loved ones breathe easier. All you have to do is follow these easy tips to have fresh air impact.

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Are Your Household Cleaners In The 'Hall of Shame'?

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Clean-Home, Ewg Cleaners Hall of Shame, Video, Harmful Cleaning Supplies, Cleaning Products, Cleaning Supplies, Harmful Cleaning Products, Ewg, Green Cleaning Supplies, Household Cleaners Hall of Shame, Green Cleaning Products, Home Cleaning, Environmental Working Group, Green News

From Mother Nature Network's Matt Hickman: Sorry to disturb if you’re still reeling from the news that America’s favorite black market laundry ...

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8 Simple Ways You Can Avoid Chemicals in Cans

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Campbells-Soup, Prostate Cancer, Children, Health, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Harvard, Cancer, Environmental Working Group, Allergies, Bpa Free, Bpa Bottles, Bpa Free Bottles, Plastic Bpa, Natural Health, Healthy Living News

Disease doesn't know party lines, and if our babies are being born pre-polluted with BPA while other countries opt out, it doesn't matter what side of the aisle you are on. Together, we can create the changes we want to see in our food system.

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Tough Love for Big Agribusiness

Alex Formuzis | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Agribusiness, Agriculture and Communications Symposium, Ken Cook, Environmental Working Group, Video, Green News

Earlier this month, Environmental Working Group president Ken Cook gave some tough love to a packed room of chemical agribusiness representatives. The...

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Meatless Monday: Modern Frankenstein

Ellen Kanner | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Institute for Responsible Technology, Environmental Working, Frankenstein, Jeffrey Smith, Gmos, Organic Farming Research Organization, Food Democracy Now, Just Label It, Environmental Working Group, Center for Food Safety, Denise Ryan, Poblano, Pumpkin, Tortillas, Mary Shelley, Food, Green News

Frankenstein waited too long to make things right. It's not too late for us.

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End Game on Bisphenol A? Have we reached a tipping point on the science of this ubiquitous chemical?

Jon Entine | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Nrdc, Women, Bpa Baby Bottles, Bpa Health Risks, Dangers of Bpa, Bpa Risks, Environmental Working Group, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Bpa Health, Breast Cancer, Bpa-Free, Cancer, FDA Ban BPA, FDA Plastic, Bpa Ban, Parents News, Green News

If you monitor the web, you might think the science is converging on the conclusion that BPA is harmful, when the opposite is the case.

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Chemical Ag's Flyboys Often Miss the Mark

Alex Formuzis | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Environment, Pesticides, Ewg, Environmental Working Group, Pesticides Children, Corn, Green News

Chemical agriculture and its aerial bombardiers have managed to pollute the entire biosphere -- including people not yet born.

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America's Children: Victims of Adult Vices

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Mikhail Shemyakin, Public Art, John Boehner, Smithsonian, Washington DC, Addiction, Moscow, Environmental Working Group, David Wojnarowicz, Toxic Chemicals, Jeffrey Deitch, War, Drugs, Prostitution, Alcoholism, Censorship, Arts News

"The Children, Victims of Adult Vices" is effective public art that forces us to confront our vices and how they jeopardize the future of humanity. T...

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Report Links Meat-Eating To Disease

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 09.17.2011

A new report released Monday claims the science is clear: Eating too much meat is bad for your health. The so-called Meat Eater's Guide, compiled ...

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Wear Sunscreen? Yes, But Environmental Working Group Says Careful Which One

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Sun Exposure, Sunscreen, Environmental Working Group, Skin Cancer, Women News

"Wear sunscreen" seems like pretty solid advice, right? Well, that depends on which one you're planning on wearing, according to a recent guide put to...

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The 12 Fruits And Vegetables With The Most Pesticides

The Huffington Post | Laura Schocker | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Organic Vegetables, Fruit Pesticides, Pesticides, Healthy Living, Fruits Vegetables Pesticides, The Dirty Dozen Fruits and Vegetables, Apples, Clean Fifteen, Environmental Working Group, Dirty Dozen Pesticides, Dirty Dozen Vegetables, Healthy Living Body, List of Fruits and Vegetables, Nutrition, Clean 15, Dirty Dozen List, Organic Fruit, Slidepollajax, Dirty Dozen Fruits and Vegetables, 'Dirty Dozen' Fruits and Veggies, Dirty Dozen, Environmental Working Group Shoppers List, Vegetables Pesticides, Healthy Living News

Could an apple a day really keep the doctor away? Maybe -- but it may also be coated in pesticides. Today, the Environmental Working Group, an advo...

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WATCH: Soil Erosion Far Worse Than Reported In American Farmlands

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Farming, Farming Practices, EWG Losing Ground, Losing Ground Report, Erosion, Farm Practices, Environmental Working Group, Erosion Statistics, Farm Taxes, Soil Erosion, Environment, Ewg, Erosion Subsidies, Farm Erosion, Farm Subsidies, Video, Green News

If the American classic song is right and “this land was made for you and me,” then why are we paying to have it destroyed? This is the question p...

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Eco Etiquette: What's the Best Eco-Friendly Makeup?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Organic Cosmetics, Josie Maran, Carcinogenic Chemicals, Skin Deep, Green Makeup, Green Living, Green Beauty, Cosmetics Chemicals, Environmental Working Group, Green Tips, Eco Etiquette, Green News

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I've been reading your co...

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Yes Virginia, There Is a P in EPA: Lisa Jackson, American Super Hero

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.27.2011

Every super hero has a nemesis, and the EPA's Jackson has the 112th Congress under the leadership of John Boehner doing everything it can to stop progress toward fuel efficiency and clean energy.

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Weekly Health Tip: Should You Always Buy Organic?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.28.2011

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The benefits of organic farming are undeniable.

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Recommended Continental Breakfast: Eggs Over Easy, Hold the Dioxin

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

The FDA doesn't recommend avoiding any particular food to limit dioxin exposure other than its generally recommended diet. Of course there's the option of going vegan, the diet found to have the lowest exposure to dioxins.

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Big Ag Attacks! Why Is The Government-Sponsoring Pesticide Propaganda?

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ewg, Big Ag, Dirty Dozen Pesticides, Environmental Working Group, safefruitsandveggies.com, Big Agriculture, Food Politics, Green News

he White House garden may be green and unsullied by agricultural chemicals, but Obama's United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) just forked ove...

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Probable Carcinogen Found In Drinking Water In 31 Cities

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Epa, Green News, Erin Brockovich, Environment, Hexavalent Chromium, Cancer, Drinking Water, Environmental Working Group, Drinking Water Hexavalent Chromium, Green News

An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 cities across the United States, including Bethesda and Washington, found that most cont...

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U.S. Spends $180K To Promote Pesticide Residues On Food

Adam Morganstern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alliance for Food and Farming, Fruits, Pesticides, Food Safety, Environmental Working Group, Vegetables, Dirty Dozen List, Food News

The EWG is asking California to reconsider a $180,000 grant given to a group to combat the negative public perception of pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables.

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Taxpayers Funding Pro-Pesticide PR Campaign

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF), a California trade association, wants you to have less information about pesticide residues on the fruits and...

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What Price Beauty? New Legislation Seeks Safety Regulations

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.17.2011

Most Americans would be astonished to learn that of the approximately 12,500 individual chemical ingredients in personal care products, the overwhel...

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Think Twice Before Taking a Paper Receipt

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bpa, Walmart, Whole Foods, Time Magazine, Carcinogens, Bank of America, Target, Environmental Working Group, Safeway, U.S. Postal Service, Jonathan-a-Schein, Scheinmedia, Starbucks, McDonald's, Bisphenol A, CVS Pharmacies, Metrogreenbusinesscom, Green News

When shopping, how many times do you hear the cashier ask, "Would you like a receipt"? And how many times do you take one? Well, here's some eye-ope...

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Hold the Mayo, Extra Pesticides

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Farming, Produce, Shoppers Guide, Agriculture, Clean Fifteen, Ewg, Organic, Usda, Fruit, Chemical, Contamination, Farm, Vegetables, Alliance for Food and Farming, Environmental Working Group, Dirty Dozen, Food News

If Big Agriculture wants to promote healthier diets, it should stop attacking critics and focus on growing vegetables and fruits that are chemical-free -- and also tasty.

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Chemicals Reform Bill a Step Backwards for Children?

Richard Wiles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: (TSCA), Kid-Safe Chemicals, Ewg, Kid Safe Chemicals Act, Safe Chemicals Act, Environmental Working Group, Green News

You wouldn't give your child an adult dose of Tylenol. You wouldn't strap an infant into the front seat of your car. The government won't let a baby b...

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