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EWG News Roundup (8/31): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend:

Depending on where you live, schools are either back in session or the first day is fast approaching. A new study by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, or USPIRG, found harmful chemicals in...

Bug spray is easily one of the most confusing products to buy for your kids. There are a lot of ingredients to choose from and a lot of misinformation. Will they work? Are they safe? Knowing which one...

As the school year begins, the movement to exercise caution in students' use of cell phones and other wireless devices is gaining international momentum.

EWG News Roundup (8/17): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Hairdressers, nail technicians and other beauty salon workers face some of the greatest occupational exposures to toxic chemicals. A bill moving through the California Legislature would be the first...

EWG News Roundup (8/3): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

We get it. Like so many things in parenting, choosing a sunscreen for kids has become ridiculously confusing and anxiety provoking. You don't want your kids to get sunburned, or have other skin damage...

EWG News Roundup (7/13): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

A Russian asbestos company is lavishing praise on Donald Trump and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Thanks to President Donald Trump, Americans' confidence in the Environmental Protection Agency has never been lower.

The wireless communications industry is rushing to blanket the nation with next-generation networks whose health effects are unknown. Despite studies linking radiation from existing networks to cancer...

It's been 80 years since Congress last voted to regulate cosmetics.

On June 22, 2016, President Obama signed into law a significant overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, the nation's primary chemical safety law. It was the first update to the law...

After intense lobbying by the chemical industry, last week the Environmental Protection Agency signaled plans to delay or scrap proposed bans on some uses of the drinking water contaminant made...

Mixtures of chemicals commonly found in consumer products are more likely to increase breast cancer risk than the same chemicals individually, according to a new analysis. But safety tests by...

EWG News Roundup (6/1): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

News Roundup (5/25): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Kids are more vulnerable to damage from the sun than adults. A few blistering sunburns in childhood can double a person's lifetime chances of developing serious forms of skin cancer.

Children are exposed to brominated and organophosphate flame retardants from nap mats at child care centers, but switching to mats without the chemicals reduces kids' exposures, according to a new...