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Whether you live in a red, blue or purple state, this won't be good for anyone.

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It's coming from inside the house. Let the unraveling of toxic chemical safety measures begin.

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My colleagues at EWG just updated the national drinking water database. Virtually every American can search their zip code to find out what contaminates are likely coming out of their tap, including the amounts and health risks associated with each pollutant. www.ewg.org/tapwater/

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Is he letting Trump attend?

submitted 1 day ago • 602 comments

If Diamantas flames out as nation's top #foodsafety official, I know some 8th graders who can step up.

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"ACIP meetings have been rescheduled under previous administrations, but the delay throws into question whether the Trump administration will follow precedent with a leading vaccine critic at the helm of the federal health department." No shit.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

For those who haven't seen the movie Idiocracy, now would be a good time to watch it.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

To those who voted for Trump because he promised to #MAHA, this is what you get. The constant fight to protect people from deadly pathogens like #E.coli & sketchy chemicals in our food just got a lot harder.

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Further evidence the #MAHA movement was nothing but a cynical scheme to dupe #RFKJr supporters into supporting Trump. They have no intention of making U.S. food safer & healthier.

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California's big monopoly utilities, PG&E, SCE & SDG&E, have fleeced their captive ratepayers w/ sky-high electric bills, sparked wildfires & passed along the costs of those to their customers. Enough is enough.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Aka, Trump's base.

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Southern Calif. residents, including the countless who have lost everything in the #PalisadesFire & #EatonFire, will be forced to pay $1.6 billion in higher rates to cover the costs of the 2017 Thomas Fire, courtesy of Gov. Newsom's regulators at the CPUC.

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EWG live streamed the #RFKJr hearings. Leana Wen is correct. They were both disasters.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Wait. He lied!? The architect of #Project2025 is Trump's incoming OMB Director, so many more attacks to environment, public health protections will be coming.

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EWG live streamed both confirmation hearings of #RFKJr to be HHS Secretary. During yesterday's hearing before the Senate HELP Committee, Kennedy refused to say that vaccines do not cause #autism & demonstrated nearly no understanding how Medicare & Medicaid work.

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RFK Jr just told the Senate he "never believed" Lyme disease was created as a bioweapon. But he devoted an entire episode of his podcast to promoting the (debunked) conspiracy theory in Jan 2024. My latest for @eenews.bsky.social on RFK's Lyme flip flops subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

#MAHA, as it turns out, is just a run-of-the-mill grift set up to part unsuspecting #RFKJr followers from their money.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

EWG will be covering tomorrow's Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing for #RFKJr, providing analysis & perspectives from noted public health experts & advocates who have serious concerns about his nomination to be the chief healthcare executive in the Trump administration.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

While it could take months to determine what caused the first flames of the #EatonFire, power lines & transmission tower operated by Southern California Edison are under investigation.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

"Top appointees include David Fotouhi, a lawyer who recently challenged a ban on #asbestos; Alex Dominguez, a former oil lobbyist who will work on automobile emissions; and Aaron Szabo, a lobbyist for both the oil and chemical industries who is expected to be the top air pollution regulator."

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The Senate confirmation hearing for #RFKJr. as HHS Secretary is set for next Wednesday. His long history of spreading dangerous, unfounded anti-vax rhetoric will likely dominate questioning from both Rs and Ds on the panel.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The new rules limiting toxic #PFAS chemicals in drinking water—hard-won by public health advocates over the past two decades—could unravel with Nancy Beck's anticipated return to the EPA.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I typically try to avoid using harsh language when discussing political figures, but it's hard not to call it like it is: what a total disgrace.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

If Republican Senators back RFK Jr. after this, I truly believe Trump could tap a bottle bourbon to be Surgeon General and they’d all fall in line. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/h...

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In a significant move to protect public health, the Biden Food and Drug Administration announced today it will ban the use of Red Dye No. 3 in food. #foodsafety

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Millions of Americans are eating foods contaminated with #PFAS chemicals, in addition to drinking them from contaminated tap water. The risk is “several orders of magnitude” above what it considers acceptable, the EPA said.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

There was a time, years ago, when a development like this would have likely raised eyebrows during a Senate confirmation hearing.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

‘This time, we promise to really buckle down.’

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The findings of the USDA investigation are outrageous but hardly surprising. Industrial #factoryfarm operations are often the source of deadly pathogen outbreaks.

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I’m not sure it’s possible to further damage #ExxonMobil’s reputation.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

1st reporting I’ve seen of eyewitness accounts implicating power lines & poles as source of one of the #wildfires. If confirmed by CalFire, SoCalEdison will be under serious scrutiny over its fire safety measures that have led to sky-high electric bills for ratepayers in recent yrs. #EatonFire

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And yet, the most agriculture-dependent counties across the US voted for Trump by nearly 80%. #farmworkers #foodprices

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

So far, utility poles & lines have not been identified as the source of the #wildfires. But mismanagement by the for-profit monopoly power companies in California have been responsible for some of the most damaging & deadly fires in the state’s history.

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submitted 51 days ago • 2894 comments

EWG has a searchable database, Food Scores, that provides detailed information about the ingredients & processing for 80,000 foods, including cereals, baby food, snacks, sweets, grains, frozen foods, sauces, meat & seafoods, & many other categories: www.ewg.org/foodscores/

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Likely money well spent - at least for the narrow interests of polluters.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

The toxic weedkiller #paraquat w/ strong links to Parkinson's disease has been banned in over 70 countries. President Biden could follow suit w/ his remaining days in office. It's now or never, Joe. Trump will never do it, despite RFKJr's empty promises to protect people from #pesticides.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

New tax cuts for billionaires & corporations will come at a steep cost for hungry families, farmers, the sick, elderly, childhood education, college debt, clean air & energy, climate & more. That will be on all those who voted for Trump.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

California's profit-driven monopoly utilities, like #PG&E, and their captured regulators at the CPUC claim they crushed the state's rooftop #solar financial incentives to "protect" low-income residents—utter nonsense.

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The California "Public" Utilities Commission last night rubber stamped the 5th & 6th rate increase requests by #PG&E this year, including one that virtually all ratepayers in the state will pay to keep the dilapidated #DiabloCanyon #nuclear plant operating, which was scheduled to close in 2025.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

"raw milk sold in stores in California was recalled in recent weeks after the virus was detected at farms and in the products." #birdflu #rawmilk

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

“This loan is less a solution for California’s energy future and more a bailout for #PG&E,” said EWG Prez Ken Cook. Reporting by the SacBee's @ariplachta.bsky.social

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

EWG: Will ratepayers be on the hook for $15B loan to #PG&E? Probably.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

The burden of repaying this loan will almost certainly fall on #PG&E's ratepayers, not the company's shareholders or executives.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Especially in places like California where monopoly utilities, with a big assist from regulators, quashed the state's financial incentives for rooftop solar & cratered the installer industry. The federal ITC is all that's left.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Damnit!

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

At this point, the question should be: "Where aren't #PFAS chemicals found?" Maybe the moon. #foreverchemicals

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

On September 17, Trump promised to cut auto insurance in half if reelected President, similar to his pledge to lower food prices. Neither of which will happen once he's back in the White House.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

If vaccine rates plummet because of these two, people, especially children, will die.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments