Search Results for 'EWG'

• Packard Foundation

  August 5, 2014

  The Packard Foundation works “with partners around the world to improve the lives of children, families, and communities—and to restore and protect our planet.” The foundation undoubtedly contributes to worthwhile causes, it also supports scientifically dubious ones. Specifically, Packard has given money to the Center for Food Safety (CFS), whose goals include “ensuring the testing, […]

• Environmental Working Group

  Like a number of environmental non-profit groups, the Environmental Working Group has clear-cut policy goals: eliminating genetically modified foods, shifting the U.S. to energy powered by wind and sunshine, and phasing out a number of common chemicals and consumer products. The group regularly publishes research and consumer advisories that receive significant media coverage, however that […]

• Sunscreen: Cancer-Causing or Cancer-Preventing?

  August 1, 2014

  Throughout the summer, headlines across the country have fanned fears about the safety of ingredients used in sunscreens. Most of these stories are based off a report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental activist group that publishes a “guide to sunscreen” at the start of every summer. EWG says that many of the […]