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Your environmental health news crib sheet. Something smells.There's " a veritable cocktail of dangerous and potentially dangerous volatile organic compounds" in your air fresheners, and a group of...

I’m having a hard time with this post. The issue seems so obvious, so clearly-cut, that there can’t possibly be much left for me to say. Lead bullets poison people in firing ranges, animals in the...

I was never rewarded for doing chores when I was a child. I was a part of the household, my mother told me, and she wasn’t going to applaud or pay me just because I did my part to help out. I think...

Look up “toothless tiger” in the dictionary, and you’ll see a picture of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Or at least that’s the impression given by the media and many of those...

PBDE uptake patterns appear to be changing. In a study of families in Spain, the presence of specific chemicals mirrored that usually seen in electronics employees. There may be a relationship between...

A friend visited from California a few weeks ago. Sitting on the couch in my apartment, he noticed the pomegranate sitting in my fruit bowl and smiled. "We've got more of those that we know what to do...

The thing about business is this: the goal is to make money. In fact, if a corporation does not act in its own best financial interest, it's legally liable to shareholders. That's a fact that often...

The Bush administration will unveil a plan today to give the FDA and CPSC more authority over imports. Congress, you may know, is already considering what action to take on consumer safety; their plan...

A few weeks ago, during the discussions around the industry-funded recommendations advising women to eat more fish, an important point was frequently raised (on this website and others): While we're...

It can be hard to prove the correlation between environmental exposures and health implications. Public health advocates who focus on environmental exposures, often speak about general health trends...

I do not speak for the rest of the Enviroblog team when I say, I love bluegrass. I love the classic stuff and the new stuff, the ballads, the lightening-fast pickin'. . . Who knows, maybe I was from...

As the Santa Ana winds begin to die down and Southern Californians take stock of the damages, some in the media are noting the impact that global warming may have on wildfires. In the UK, the BBC asks...

A little light reading for your Wednesday. . . Liz at The Pump Handle looks at how the problems at Topps Meat managed to get past USDA inspectors, and as per usual it all comes down to money. While we...

So I was reading this New York Times article on radon off-gassing from granite countertops, and I was intrigued by this passage: The E.P.A. recommends taking action if radon gas levels in the home...

So, how do you feel about bubbly water? EPA has issued an initial rule on carbon sequestration -- that's where coal plants and other major carbon dioxide sources pump the gas into the ground, where...

The relationship between government and the cosmetics industry has been a cozy one for many years. The multi-billion dollar cosmetics industry has always been a self-regulating one, and in fact, FDA...

Twenty years ago, in a Berkeley attic, freelance journalist John Javna wrote and self-published one of the most important books of 20th Century environmentalism. 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save...

It seems Congress has caught on to industry's dirty tricks -- find out what they're doing about it in this episode of Mixed Greens. Plus, EPA cozies up to the chemical industry, and PFOA persists in...

When you speak, as we often do, in parts per million, it can be hard to have a sense of what that means. For example, did you know that measurements of just 0.1 ppm of ammonia in water can cause...

My favorite time of year is coming up really soon: flip flops and outside patios in restaurants, and I will be a happy person! But it's also the time of the year when I start wearing sunscreens (and...

Take the U.S. government, add a dash of industry consultants and front groups, and the results may be hazardous to your health. Mixed Greens is EWG's environmental health podcast. You can subscribe in...

UPDATE: If you're interested in this subject, you've got to check out the Doreen the Downer cartoon. Something that's been glossed over in many of the news articles and blog posts about the recent...

The USDA may be looking at a change in its role following the scandal that lead to the recall of 143 million pounds of ground beef earlier this week. Representative Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), who chairs...