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EWG Exposes Hidden Trans Fat

Did you know that artificial trans fat is an artery-clogging synthetic blamed for 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths yearly? Even worse, did you know that you could be eating it without even...
Food
Food Chemicals

Hidden In Plain Sight

A new EWG analysis estimates that at least 27 percent of more than 84,000 foods in EWG's interactive Food Scores database, contain artificial trans fat, a manmade, artery-clogging, industrially...
Food

Corporate spending to fight GMO labeling skyrockets

Food and biotechnology companies opposed to mandatory labeling of foods that contain genetically modified food ingredients have disclosed expenditures of $63.6 million in 2014 to lobby for legislation...

Propyl Paraben

The pastry you're thinking about buying may contain the preservative propyl paraben, linked to disruptions in hormone signaling.
Food

Feeding the world

Growing food takes a major toll on the environment, one that will grow worse in the coming decades as humanity faces the challenge of feeding a burgeoning population.
Food

The Anti-Label Lobby

Companies and organizations opposed to labeling foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients disclosed $15.2 million in lobbying expenditures that made reference to GE labeling in the second...
Midwest
Conservation

“Washout” Revisited

In 2013, an Environmental Working Group report titled “WASHOUT” documented that soil erosion across Iowa farm land during that spring's heavy rains had been far worse than previous estimates – in some...
Food

The Anti-Label Lobby through Q1 2014

Companies and organizations opposed to labeling foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients disclosed $9 million in lobbying expenditures that made reference to GE labeling in the first...
Food

How Much is Too Much?

Can you get too much of a good thing? When it comes to vitamin A, zinc and niacin, yes you can.
Food
Food Chemicals

Children's Cereals

EWG's analysis of more than 1,500 cereals, including more than 180 children's cereals, shows that a child who eats a bowl a day for a year ends up consuming 10 pounds of sugar.

Men's Health

Most men know by now that good lifestyle choices – such as exercising regularly, eating a healthy diet, not smoking and drinking in moderation – make a big difference in staying healthy. Men may too...
Midwest
Conservation

Going, Going, Gone!

Across America's heartland, in county after county and state after state, the landscape-devouring machinery of modern agriculture has been churning through millions of acres of irreplaceable wetlands...
Midwest
Conservation

Washout

Media attention has understandably focused on flooding, especially given the devastating floods that have repeatedly struck the region in recent years.This year, it looks as if the Midwest will dodge...

Poisons in the Pipeline

On March 29, 2013, a pipeline carrying tar sands oil ruptured in Arkansas, sending an inky river through a residential neighborhood in the town of Mayflower. A concerned neighbor scooped up a sample...
Midwest
Conservation
Water

Paradise Lost

The reality is that the nation's primary prairie and wetlands protection program – the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) – was not designed to meet the environmental challenges being created...
Water

Water Treatment Contaminants:

Across the nation, chlorine, added as a disinfectant to kill disease- causing microganisms in dirty source water, is reacting with rotting organic matter like sewage, manure from livestock, dead...
Midwest
Conservation

Murky Waters

Forty years after the Clean Water Act became law, the data are clear: Iowa's rivers and streams are still murky. The pollution that continues to degrade them has become a case study on the...
Expert Spotlight

Chemical companies provide quarterly reports on production and sales figures to shareholders. Why shouldn’t the public and EPA receive similar reports every year about commonly used chemicals, some of which could pose a serious health risk?”

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