2013 Guide to Sunscreens: What to Use, What to Lose

EWG’s guide helps consumers find products that get high ratings for providing broad-spectrum, long-lasting protection and that are made with ingredients that pose fewer health concerns.

http://ecowatch.com/2013/2013-guide-to-sunscreens/

Industrial Fluoride Additive in Tap Water Impacts Your Health and Pocketbook

http://ecowatch.com/2013/fluoride-additive-tap-water-impacts-health-pocketbook/

Although never studied for safety or efficacy, hydrofluorosilicic acid is added to U.S. public water supplies as a purported cavity preventive. The industry-funded group that regulates water additives, NSF International, allows several toxins in HFSA, including arsenic …

Improve Your World: No Fracking, Yes Renewable Energy

Well, then, what if we divorced the fossil fuel industry, and, over the next two decades, transitioned entirely to wind, water and solar energy while, at the same time, reducing our per capita energy consumption by half. Would that work? In fact that’s the only course that gives us a fighting chance.

EPA Approves New Pesticide Highly Toxic to Bees

In addition to risks to bees, sulfoxaflor is also classified as “suggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential” based on the incidence of tumors and carcinomas in mice and rats …

http://ecowatch.com/2013/epa-approves-new-pesticide-highly-toxic-to-bees/

Study Links “America’s Favorite Herbicide” to Autism, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s

“A new review of hundreds of scientific studies surrounding glyphosate—the major component of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide—sheds light on its effects within the human body …”

http://ecowatch.com/2013/study-links-monsantos-roundup-autism-parkinsons-alzheimers/

100 Million+ Americans Exposed to Toxic Drinking Water

A new Environmental Working Group analysis of 2011 water quality tests by 201 large U.S. municipal water systems that serve more than 100 million people in 43 states has determined that all are polluted with unwanted toxic chemicals called trihalomethanes.

Prevention as Cure: Breast Cancer and the Environment

Breast cancer is largely a preventable disease. To reduce the risks of chemical exposures, we need tests that accurately detect breast carcinogens, and we need policies that demand such testing. Both are achievable in the near term, but to get there we need to make clear we won’t tolerate the status quo.

Cancer-Causing Chemicals Used in 34 Percent of Reported Fracking Operations

‘Smoking Gun’ Research Reveals Tar Sands Cancer Legacy

Protesters Speak Out Against Investments in Mountaintop Removal at 15 PNC Bank Branches

http://ecowatch.org/2012/protesters-against-investments-mtr/