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EPA Chief May Let Young Farmworkers Handle Toxic Pesticides
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is taking steps that could lift health-protective safeguards designed to prevent teenage farmworkers from handling toxic pesticides.
Trump’s Toxic Wake: 8 Ways the President Made Chemicals Less Safe in 2017
In his first year in office, President Trump has wreaked devastating damage on public health protections against hazardous chemicals Photo credit: Shutterstock.com
Pruitt’s EPA Abandoning Duty to Protect Kids From Dangerous Pesticides
Five years is a long time in the life of a child – and for the child's parents. Five years can be a period of profound change, growth and development. But if Environmental Protection Agency chief...
How Trump’s Chemical Safety Nominee Greenwashed Toxic Pesticides for Monsanto, Dow
Before he became President Trump's nominee to oversee the safety of pesticides sprayed on our food, Michael Dourson sought to weaken pesticide safety standards for Monsanto and Dow.
EWG News Roundup (7/7): How Tanning Products Put You at Risk, Monsanto’s Glyphosate Added to California Carcinogen List and More
Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG News Roundup (6/30): Tap Water Endangered for 117M, Trump’s Pay-to-Spray and Best Budget Sunscreens
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News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (April 14)
Here are several of this past week's deep dives on developments coming out of the Trump White House.
Study Shows Monsanto’s Roundup Can Harm Fetuses
News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (April 7)
Here are several of this past week's deep dives on developments coming out of the Trump White House.
Don’t Want to Eat Pruitt’s Pesticide? Here’s What to Avoid
News from Ground Control: Planet Trump (March 31)
Here are several of this past week's deep dives on developments coming out of the Trump White House.
EPA Chief’s Big Test: Ban Pesticide Hazardous to Kids’ Brains
As one of his first major decisions as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt must rule by the end of this week on the safety of chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate pesticide...
The Pesticide Lobby's ‘Alternative Facts’ About EWG’s Shopper’s Guide
Does hearing about pesticides on produce make people less likely to eat fruits and vegetables? No – just the opposite. But that's what the pesticide lobby would like to have you believe.
EWG News Roundup (3/10): Pruitt’s Climate Change Denial and Perdue’s Sketchy Ethics, Strawberries Top Dirty Dozen List
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Five Reasons a Pruitt EPA Would Threaten Public Health
EWG News Roundup (1/6): Kids and Sugar, Avoiding Pesticides and Toxic Teflon
EWG's research on the serious sugar problem in many kids' cereals, published between 2011 and 2014, received renewed attention this week in the media. Other widely covered EWG projects included our...
Big Ag Makes Last-Ditch Effort to Protect Pesticide that Lowers Kids’ IQs
With its back up against the wall, U.S. agribusiness is making a last-ditch effort to keep its grip on a pesticide used on fruits and veggies, which is so nasty even the smallest amounts lower kids'...
Pruitt’s Home State Leads Nation in Pesticide Illnesses and Deaths
Arsenic, Pesticides, Chemicals in Kids? Trump Adviser Ebell and Breitbart Dismiss Concerns, Target EWG
Myron Ebell, head of President-elect Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency transition team, is a notorious denier of global warming whose biography unashamedly notes that activists consider...
Illegal Herbicide Use on Monsanto GMOs Spurs Bitter Complaints
Remember when we told you that some farmers were illegally spraying the herbicide dicamba on Monsanto's new GMO crops? Well, the situation is getting worse.