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    10 Healthy-ish Halloween Treats That Won’t Make Your Kids Roll Their Eyes … Much

    10 Healthy-ish Halloween Treats That Won’t Make Your Kids Roll Their Eyes … Much

    By Dawn Undurraga, Nutritionist and Nicole Ferox, Manager Foundations Relations and Sydney Swanson, Associate Database Analyst Parents are trapped in the Halloween guilt vortex: going full-scale green mom, handing out whole walnuts or pennies or dental floss to avoid loading kids with sugar and additives but thereby making their kids cringe and giving them stories […]

    Massive Study Finds Eating Organic Slashes Cancer Risks

    Massive Study Finds Eating Organic Slashes Cancer Risks

    Eating organic foods free from pesticides is strongly correlated with a dramatic reduction in the risk of cancer, according to a groundbreaking study published today in an American Medical Association journal. The observational study led by a team of French government scientists tracked the diets of nearly 69,000 people. Four years later, those who consumed […]

    Trump White House Pushes to Let Minors Spray Brain-Damaging Pesticides on Farms

    Trump White House Pushes to Let Minors Spray Brain-Damaging Pesticides on Farms

    The White House’s just-released list of planned environmental and public health rollbacks includes letting high-school-age kids spray brain-damaging pesticides on commercial farms. The plan would drop the age of workers permitted to spray restricted-use pesticides on crops from 18 to 16. Minors would be allowed to apply dangerous chemicals such as chlorpyrifos, which U.S. Environmental […]

    FDA Bans 7 Cancer-Causing Food Additives Found in Popular Foods

    FDA Bans 7 Cancer-Causing Food Additives Found in Popular Foods

    Under pressure from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and other environmental and public health groups, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned seven substances used in artificial flavors that have been linked to cancer in animals. “Chemicals that could cause cancer should never have been allowed in our food in the first place, especially […]

    Congress Poised to Act to Reduce Major Source of PFAS Chemicals in Drinking Water

    Congress Poised to Act to Reduce Major Source of PFAS Chemicals in Drinking Water

    House and Senate leaders included a provision in legislation to fund the Federal Aviation Administration and strengthen disaster programs that will give commercial airports the option to switch to firefighting foams that do not include the highly toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS. Under current law, airports are required to use firefighting foams that contain […]

    Duke University Study: N.C. Residents Living Near Large Hog Farms Have Elevated Disease, Death Risks

    Duke University Study: N.C. Residents Living Near Large Hog Farms Have Elevated Disease, Death Risks

    By Olga Naidenko and Sydney Evans Residents of communities near industrial-scale hog farms in North Carolina face an increased risk of potentially deadly diseases, Duke University scientists reported in a study released this week. Researchers found that compared to communities without big hog farms, in the communities with the highest hog farm density, there were […]

    The Many Hazards of Toxic Algae Outbreaks

    The Many Hazards of Toxic Algae Outbreaks

    By Sarah Graddy and Robert Coleman This summer, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) is tracking outbreaks of potentially toxic algae across the U.S. We have been startled to find that these outbreaks are erupting everywhere: from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Though outbreaks of […]

    Will Hurricane Florence Flood North Carolina Factory Farms and Manure Pits?

    Will Hurricane Florence Flood North Carolina Factory Farms and Manure Pits?

    When Hurricane Matthew hit North Carolina in 2016, it flooded more than 140 feces-strewn industrial-scale swine and poultry barns, more than a dozen open pits brimming with liquid hog waste and thousands of acres of manure-saturated fields. As Hurricane Florence—far bigger than Matthew—bears down on the state, Environmental Working Group (EWG) and Waterkeeper Alliance are […]