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House Republican Plan for EPA would Hurt Public Health
Environmental Working Group (EWG) reaction to both the House Republican and Obama administration budget proposals for the Environmental Protection Agency.
Obama Would Cut Subsidies to Wealthy Farms
The Obama administration's proposed 2012 federal budget released today targets several wasteful agriculture programs, including cutting $4.25 billion over 10 years from subsidies to large farm...
EPA Regulates Rocket Fuel in Tap Water
Perchlorate, a common ingredient in rocket fuel and a potent thyroid toxin, will finally be regulated in drinking water, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced today.
Congress Confirms Drillers Fracked with Diesel
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) commends the important investigation of hydraulic fracturing released today (Jan. 31) by U.S. Reps. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) and...
Obama Speech Misfired on Ethanol, Ag Policy
President Barak Obama's call to “stop subsidizing yesterday's energy” in his State of the Union speech last night was welcome, but the President missed an opportunity to focus attention on the...
NIH panel links Vitamin A in sunscreen to skin tumors
A key independent science advisory panel has voted to confirm federal researchers' conclusion that retinyl palmitate, a form of vitamin A found in two-fifths of U.S. sunscreens, speeds the development...
EPA Unveils Plan to Help Identify ‘Brockovich’ Chemical in Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promised to help local water utilities address public concerns over the possible presence of hexavalent chromium (chromium-6) in drinking water, and today it...
EPA to Bar Fluoride-Based Pesticide
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to grant three environmental groups' petition to end the use of sulfuryl fluoride, an insecticide and food fumigant manufactured by Dow...
U.S. Catches Up with Science On Fluoride in Drinking Water
Since 2005, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been pushing the federal government and municipal water utilities to reduce the levels of fluoride in drinking water to protect children from tooth...
What’s In Your Bottled Water – Besides Water?
A survey of websites and labels of more than 170 bottled waters sold in the U.S. found only three – and only one of the top 10 domestic brands – that give customers information about the water's...
California Moves to Protect Public from Notorious Carcinogen
For years, California officials have been working to set the nation's first-ever safety standard for the carcinogenic metal hexavalent chromium (chromium-6), commonly found in the state's drinking...
EWG Applauds Obama Administration Plan to Address Chromium-6 Contamination
Just two days after the release of Environmental Working Group's (EWG) analysis of chromium-6 (hexavalent chromium) contamination in the drinking water of 31 U.S. cities, the federal Environmental...
Milestone Measure to Advance Food Safety Passes Congress
The nation's food safety system is responsible for 3,000 deaths each year, and 48 million illnesses annually , according to newly released data from the federal Centers for Disease Control. Landmark...
Press Release - Tests Show Notorious Carcinogen is Widespread in US Tap Water
Millions of Americans are drinking water contaminated with the carcinogenic chemical that came to national attention in the 2000 feature film Erin Brockovich. Laboratory tests commissioned by EWG...
Lawmakers, Researchers, Doctors Reject Schwarzenegger’s Flawed Green Chemistry Proposal
Oakland, Calif. – Lawmakers, public health advocates, scientists, public utility managers and medical doctors are demanding that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger withdraw his administration's...
Obama Signs Child Nutrition Act
Taking an historic step to improve the health of children across the country, President Obama signed into law today (Dec. 13) the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. For the first time in three decades...
Farm Pollution Knocks Chesapeake Bay Out of Balance
For more than thirty years, contamination from high-intensity farming has been adding to the pollution that fouls Chesapeake Bay, one of America's most storied waterways. A new report from the...
Congress Passes Child Nutrition Act
A major public health victory on behalf of the nation's neediest children is about to be realized when President Obama signs into law legislation that will provide healthy school lunches to millions.
Holidays Come Early for California Chemical Makers
In September 2008, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated the signing of two bills that, he said, would propel “California to the forefront of the nation and the world with the most comprehensive Green...
Food Safety Bill will Save the Lives of Thousands
At least 5,000 Americans – most of them young children, the elderly and the sick – die every year from eating contaminated food, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...