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The New Gold Rush: Surge in Mining Claims Threatens California’s National Parks & Wilderness
A modern-day Gold Rush is threatening California's national parks, national monuments, wilderness and roadless areas.
EWG Applauds Senate Passage of Landmark Legislation Banning Asbestos
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Executive Director Richard Wiles issued the following statement thanking United States Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) after the Senate...
Media Falls Hook, Line and Sinker for Fish Industry Line on Mercury
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) issued the following statement today in response to media outlets that reported on a fish industry study urging pregnant women to disregard FDA guidance on fish...
A Disaster Waiting To Happen…Forever
A bid to establish a dedicated trust fund to compensate farmers and ranchers who suffer weather damage to crops and livestock would direct most of the funds to a handful of states where agricultural...
Investigation Finds More Than 400 Cosmetic Products on U.S. Shelves Unsafe When Used as Directed
As FDA officials and the cosmetics industry prepared to huddle behind closed doors without input from outside groups to discuss “regulatory obstacles” between countries, Environmental Working Group...
Required conservation practices poorly monitored, farmers consistently denied conservation money, large farms continue to reap l
As the five major commodity crops reap billions in taxpayer dollars each year, nearly 70 percent of farmer requests for voluntary conservation assistance go unfunded and soil erosion rules for subsidy...
EWG Statement on Latest FDA Proposed Sunscreen Safety Standards
EWG issued the following statement today in response to the Food and Drug Administration's latest proposed federal safety standards for sunscreens. FDA first announced its intention to implement...
EWG Statement on Reassignment of Chief of NIH Environmental Institute
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Executive Director Richard Wiles issued the following statement today in response to the decision by the head of the National Institute of Environmental Health...
Plan to Add Fluoride to Southern California Tap Water will put 64,000 Kids at Risk
More than 64,000 children a day in Southern California will be exposed to an unsafe dose of fluoride when the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) begins adding fluoride to drinking water in October...
Report: More Than 800 New Mining Claims Crowd Border of Grand Canyon National Park
A report released by the Environmental Working Group today shows an 80 percent increase in uranium, gold and other mining claims in 12 western states over the past five years, including an explosion...
U.S. Health Panel Ignores Science on Food-Packaging Chemical
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Senior Scientist Dr. Anila Jacob, MD, MPH, issued the following statement in response to the decision by a government sponsored panel to largely ignore wide ranging...
Federal Panel’s Report on Food Contaminant Flunks Basic Science
The National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) is assessing the health risks of the compound BPA, a toxic ingredient in plastics that...
Senate Panel Passes Asbestos Ban
Eighteen years after the Environmental Protection Agency unsuccessfully attempted to ban asbestos, one of the world's most deadly substances, a Senate panel voted this week to ban the use of the...
Expert Panel Warns of Health Risks from BPA
The Chapel Hill consensus statement on BPA released today underscores, by way of contrast, how hopeless and corrupt the ongoing review of BPA by the NIH Center for The Evaluation of Risks to Human...
Widening Farm Subsidy Gap Is Leaving Black Farmers Further Behind
Black farmers receive between one-third to one-sixth of the benefits under major federal crop subsidy programs that other farmers receive, and the “subsidy gap” has widened over the past decade.
Down the Drain: Chemicals From Personal Care Products Polluting SF Bay
Hormone-disrupting chemicals from a wide variety of consumer products are polluting San Francisco Bay, posing risks to marine life and challenges for consumers and utility districts.
Ken Cook Statement on National Black Farmers Association President’s Congressional Subcommittee Testimony
Today, Dr. John Boyd, President of the National Black Farmer's Association, testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
Which Sunscreens are Safest?
Today EWG released the first-ever, in-depth analysis of the safety and effectiveness of more than 700 name-brand sunscreens
Naming (1.5 Million) Names
A new Web site, developed by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) from millions of previously unpublished USDA subsidy records and released today, provides nearly full disclosure of federal farm...
Power Drain
Some of America's richest and largest farms are paying pennies for the vast amounts of electricity needed to deliver irrigation water to California's arid Central Valley.