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    Top Apps to Help You Live More Sustainably

    Top Apps to Help You Live More Sustainably

    From finding nearby water bottle refill stations, to calculating your carbon footprint, to connecting with surplus food headed for the landfill, these apps help you live more sustainably.  Tap Have you ever spent the better part of an outing wandering around, looking for somewhere to fill up your reusable water bottle? Or spent money on […]

    Texas the Biggest Culprit in Toxic Waterway Discharge in U.S., Report Finds

    Texas the Biggest Culprit in Toxic Waterway Discharge in U.S., Report Finds

    A new report from nonprofit Environment America analyzed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data and found that Texas is the No. 1 state in the U.S. for discharging of toxic pollutants into streams, rivers and lakes.  Environment America has been producing the report since 2009. Since the first analysis of the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory […]

    Warning: Food Wrappers Still Coated in Cancer-Causing Chemical

    Warning: Food Wrappers Still Coated in Cancer-Causing Chemical

    New research based on nationwide tests shows that many fast food chains still use food wrappers, bags and boxes coated with highly fluorinated chemicals. The Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) report supplements a new peer-reviewed study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters, which shows some of the test samples contained traces of a notorious […]

    Why Are California Farmers Irrigating Crops With Oil Wastewater?

    Why Are California Farmers Irrigating Crops With Oil Wastewater?

    In the last three years, farmers in parts of California’s Central Valley irrigated nearly 100,000 acres of food crops with billions of gallons of oil field wastewater possibly tainted with toxic chemicals, including chemicals that can cause cancer and reproductive harm, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis of state data. [facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1328569113822689/ expand=1] […]

    650,000 Children in 9 States Attend School Within 1 Mile of a Fracking Well

    650,000 Children in 9 States Attend School Within 1 Mile of a Fracking Well

    More than 650,000 kindergarten through 12th grade children in nine states attend school within one mile of a fracked oil or gas well, putting them at increased risk of health impacts from dangerous chemicals and air pollution. Moms Clean Air Force The finding comes from a new study by Environment America Research & Policy Center […]

    10 Toxic Chemicals EPA Should Reconsider Now

    10 Toxic Chemicals EPA Should Reconsider Now

    The nation’s new chemical safety law promises to give the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expanded authority to regulate hazardous chemicals in consumer products. But of the tens of thousands of chemicals on the market, most never tested for safety, which should the EPA tackle first? Today, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released a list […]

    Antibacterial Agent Triclosan Linked to Growth of Breast Cancer Cells

    Antibacterial Agent Triclosan Linked to Growth of Breast Cancer Cells

    According to a recent study published in the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) journal Chemical Research in Toxicology, the chemicals triclosan and octylphenol are linked to the growth of breast cancer cells. Triclosan is an antibacterial and antifungal agent found in numerous commonly known household products. Octylphenol is a commercial solvent that can be found in […]