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EWG's Tips for Parents: The Series
We're excited to tell you about our new Healthy Home Tips for Parents email series! EWG's scientists and public health researchers created a list of the most important steps you can take at home to...
Pollution in people: It's an inside job
Beverly Wright has done battle with oil refineries and landfills. She has dug her New Orleans East neighborhood out from under tons of contaminated sludge smeared across the landscape by Hurricane...
1 in 6 Americans live with dangerous air pollution: Do you?
The American Lung Association (ALA) just issued its 10th annual State of the Air report for 2009 yesterday. Use it to learn your county's air pollution ratings - they have an interactive air pollution...
Green chemistry happens; Olestra finds a new use
Olestra, the laxative fat substitute, could represent a class of greener replacements for hazardous volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in newer low voc paints. A recent Scientific American article made...
Are you addicted to plastic?
A few months ago my family undertook - and managed to survive - a week without buying anything plastic. Like not one single thing - including sliced bread bags (just try and buy sandwich bread without...
Make it personal & political on Earth Day
At EWG, we work to provide useful, science-based information to help you safeguard your family from environmental hazards. We also work to reform federal policy on toxic chemicals so that the earth is...
The Kid-Safe Chemicals Act: In the blogosphere
So you've probably noticed that we love to talk about the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act, perhaps to a fault. Because we want to see it happen real bad.
Toxic babies
It's hard to talk about pregnancy without talking about a woman's right to give birth to pollution-free babies.
But mom, they're pretty.
Last week I lamented the nail polish offered to my 3-year-old daughter by our hairdresser. This week, I'm back with another toxic situation on my hands. This time, from the dentist. And again, my...
EPA set to monitor toxic air in schools
USA Today's March 31st story "EPA to monitor 62 schools' air," left me feeling angry and hopeful. Hopeful because the Obama administration is starting to make good on its promises to take public...
PFOA: Science update
In a very short period of time - less than a century - chemical pollution has become a new, undeniable and inescapable fact of life for humans and ecosystems on our planet.
Stimulus Plan to Advance Research on Environmental Toxins and Kids' Health
One bit of good news to come out of the economic crisis: the stimulus bill's $10.4 billion for biomedical and behavioral research, to be distributed through the National Institutes of Health.
So what products CAN we use?
Every time a report is released that reveals toxics in our consumer products, it's only natural to wonder what you can buy once you've learned what you can't.
Toxins in your hood? You have the right to know, again....
Companies will have to provide more detailed disclosure of toxic chemicals they release into the environment under a little-noticed provision in the massive spending bill President Obama signed into...
Products or politics? What'll it be?
A few weeks back I read Peggy Orenstein's piece The Toxic Paradox in the New York Times Sunday magazine. It hadn't settled all that well with me, so when I saw an Environmental Health News editorial...
New studies show heightened toxics risks in newborns
Newborn babies are more intensely exposed than previously documented to contamination by bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen and ubiquitous plastic component, according to two new studies...
EWG Comments on the California Air Resources Board Climate Change Proposed Scoping Plan
With these comments, EWG directs the California Air Resources Board's attention to deficiencies in the Climate Change Proposed Scoping Plan with respect to agriculture. At present, the Plan...
BPA: What FDA doesn't know could hurt you
One of the unwritten rules of public relations is, if they're running you out of town, get out front and say you're leading the parade. That's one way to read the American Chemistry Council's...
Court Case Highlights Children's Vulnerability to Exposures Linked to Autism
Federal health officials have acknowledged that childhood vaccines contributed to a young girl developing a brain disorder "with features of autism spectrum disorder.”
'If you love your child, move'
Where's the worst air in America? Los Angeles, with its freeways gridlocked with smog-spewing cars? Houston, where petrochemical plants pump out their poisons 24 hours a day?
