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Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the outcry over Rachel Carson's path-breaking Silent Spring and global mobilization around the first Earth Day spurred scientists to attempt to quantify how much pollution was getting into people. Early methods -- measuring contaminants in water, air and soil, ...
Environment
Social media is empowering the people. Right?
Even if you're not convinced of that just yet, one thing is for sure: without your votes (yes, that's with an "s"), EWG won't win a $15,000 grant from the impressive Free Range Studios (they produced Annie Leonard's wildly successful 'The Story ...
Environment
Jesse Johnson, CEO and co-founder of Q-Collection and Q-Collection Junior posted an interview with EWG president and co-founder Ken Cook on his experiences in creating a green nursery for his son, Cal. The 2-part interview is available on his Giggle blog .
Environment
Green Grid
Special to Enviroblog by Dr. Anila Jacob
In a new report for Worldwatch Institute , Dr. Samuel Myers outlines the impacts of global environmental change on human health in compelling detail, from the increases in certain infectious diseases to food and water scarcity among vulnerable ...
Environment
Climate Change
By Leeann Brown with Travis Mitchell
If you love EWG's Skin Deep database, then this series is for you . If you've never even heard of our Skin Deep database, this series is also for you . And for pretty much anyone else on the planet who uses toothpaste, shampoo, diaper cream, lipstick, ...
Environment
By Leeann Brown
Changing a baby's diaper...it can be more of a public service than anything else. I'll never forget when I did it on a non-stop flight from Newark, NJ to Japan with two young boys.
Through the turbulence and the inevitable tears, I just kept thinking to myself how ...
Environment
Research is not yet settled on exactly how dangerous cell phone radiation is to your health. But we at Environmental Working Group have seen enough studies with enough troubling results that we think it's worth your while to reduce your exposure to cell phone radiation .
When we talked a ...
Environment
Back in September we wrote here about a West Virginia family with really, really toxic tap water . We learned about the Hall-Massey family's tragic situation in the New York Times' excellent investigative series about the pervasive water pollution allowed by too many Clean Water Act violations ...
Environment
West Virginia
New York
Not so long ago, many of us were happily - and possibly a little smugly - sipping water from our reusable aluminum water bottles. Including my kids (such cute designs, right?).
Until, that is, we learned that Sigg and Gaiam bottles weren't exactly the BPA-free solution we had spent all ...
Environment
Water Conservation
By Elaine Shannon
People think asbestos, a known carcinogen and cause of lung disease, has been banned - and it has, in about 40 countries.
But not here in the United States, where, according to the U.S. Geological Survey , asbestos imports increased between 2007 and 2008 by nearly nine ...
Environment
Even though I'm tempted by some of the new, post-Teflon "non-stick" cookware, I resist. They're just too new to know for sure if they're any safer. And there's a history in this country of replacing bad chemicals with different bad chemicals.
No thanks, not in my kitchen.
In my ...
Environment
Baking soda, vinegar and plain soap are my cleaning supplies at home - plus a little elbow grease. I don't use conventional cleaners for a reason: I don't know what's in them ( very weak labeling laws ) and I'm pretty certain they're not good for my family. But for about 6 hours a day, 5 days a ...
Environment
In case you missed the movie King Corn (if you did you should see it, and not just because EWG's Founding President Ken Cook is in it), take 2 minutes and 17 seconds to get the gist of our country's corn craziness .
As you'll soon see, the stuff is everywhere. you. turn. Then look in the ...
Environment
Food Shortage
Drilling for natural gas is a dirty business, as Enviroblog readers know.
Dusty Horwitt, Environmental Working Group's Senior Counsel, has worked tirelessly to document the environmental depredations of a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing .
Earlier this week, National ...
Environment
Methane Gas
Texas
Oil Drilling
Environmental Working Group
The science may not yet be decided on the effects of cell phone radiation on human health, but recent research is unsettling enough that Environmental Working Group (and government safety agencies around the world) recommends reducing your exposure where you can.
This blog series breaks ...
