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This week EWG released an analysis showing that in California's majority-Latino communities, 5.25 million people drink tap water contaminated with nitrate at levels at or above the federal limit.

Thirty-three members of Congress and their immediate family members collected a total of nearly $16 million in federal farm subsidies between 1995 and 2020, according to updated data from EWG's Farm...

More than 22 million American households now qualify for federal food assistance, according to the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service ­– an increase of almost 3.4 million...

EWG News Roundup (10/2): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Maintaining a variety of healthy foods in our diets is likely more important for reducing cancer risks than focusing on any individual nutrient or food.

Just because you're eating a food doesn't necessarily mean you're taking full advantage of its nutritional properties.

Seven months into the Covid-19 pandemic, most states still have not issued mandatory protections for farmworkers, even as cases continue to rise, according to an updated EWG analysis of state...

EWG News Roundup (9/25): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

The largest and wealthiest U.S. farm businesses received the biggest share of almost $33 billion in payments from two subsidy programs – one created by the Trump administration to respond to the...

The Covid-19 virus has infected more than 125,000 U.S. farmworkers, according to the latest estimates in an ongoing study by Purdue University.

It's no secret that children love sweets – and that parents often try to limit the sugary treats their kids consume, because of the range of health concerns, not to mention dental bills, associated...

Today I wrote to Dr. Robert Redfield calling on him to resign as the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was not a letter I wrote lightly. But with the events of the past few...

EWG News Roundup (9/18): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

For people who live near industrial animal feedlots, the stench, flies and day-and-night rumbling of trucks are more than a nuisance that impairs the use and enjoyment of their own property...

The devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic has never been clearer. One in five American children are struggling with hunger. Thousands of food and farm workers have contracted COVID-19 and hundreds have...

EWG News Roundup (9/11): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

A study of almost 50,000 births in Minnesota is reportedly the first to establish a cause-and-effect link between high levels of the fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in drinking water and...

For many cosmetics products, exposure through your mouth may seem unlikely. Still, it's important to consider oral dosing in assessing the safety of cosmetics ingredients, according to a new European...

EWG has found 377 news reports of agricultural pollution contaminating drinking water in 303 locations since 2010. With four months left in 2020, 38 of those cities, towns and counties have suffered...

EWG News Roundup (9/3): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.