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Children's Drinks Contain Ingredients That Can Form Benzene
Today the Environmental Working Group (EWG) sent a letter to the FDA requesting that the Agency notify the public about the presence of two ingredients in many popular children's drinks that can mix...
EPA Science Panel Says Teflon Chemical 'Likely' Cause of Cancer
Today, a panel of outside experts gave draft comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) saying that an indestructible, toxic chemical that pollutes nearly every American's blood is a...
Study Hits EPA Plan To Censor Community Pollution Reports
It is the category of industrial chemicals that, by consensus, scientists and government regulators the world over worry most about: substances that persist in the environment, accumulate in wildlife...
ChemRisk's Los Alamos Contract Questioned
Los Alamos Lab contractor caught in scientific fraud: work on chromium contamination conflicts with ties to polluters.
Chrome-Plated Fraud: Scientific Integrity and Chromium Toxicity
A consulting firm hired by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) to fight the "Erin Brockovich" lawsuit distorted data from a Chinese study to plant an article in a scientific journal reversing the study...
Mining Measure Six Feet Under
Reps. Richard Pombo (R-CA) and Jim Gibbons (R-NV) have pulled mining legislation from the House budget bill that could have sold off 350 million acres of American public lands.
EPA Fines Teflon Maker DuPont for Chemical Cover-Up
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will fine Teflon maker DuPont $16.5 million for two decades' worth of covering up company studies that showed it was polluting drinking...
Real Estate Developers with Mining Claims Near Las Vegas Could Still Purchase Land
Proposed fixes to heavily criticized mining legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. James A. Gibbons (R-NV) could still cost Nevada schools more than $120 million, slash $100 million per year in taxes...
Former DuPont Top Expert: Company Knew, Covered Up Pollution of Americans' Blood for 18 Years
Breakdown chemicals from DuPont coatings and related sources are now in the blood of 95 percent of Americans, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spent the last several years trying to...
House Votes Today on Budget Package Including Worst Land Grab in American History (10 Nov 2005)
The House of Representatives votes today on a federal spending bill with language from Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) that will let foreign mining companies, real estate speculators, oil and mining...
Pombo Proposal Amounts to Largest Land Sell-Off in Modern American History (08 Nov 2005)
A little-known provision in the current House budget reconciliation could precipitate one of the largest land giveaways in American history.
Senator Chambliss' Agriculture Proposal Would Extend Wasteful Farm Subsidy Programs for 4 Years
In advance of Thursday morning's mark-up of budget reconciliation measures in the Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) proposed to extend bloated, highly controversial U...
BLM Steamrolls Public on Otero Mesa
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) next month will release 250,000-acres for oil and gas development in the heart of New Mexico's Otero Mesa despite strong local opposition from the governor, the...
Environmental groups petition EPA to retract fluoride pesticide tolerances on food
EWG, Beyond Pesticides and Fluoride Action Network challenge the safety of new food tolerances issued by the EPA for the fluoride-based pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride.
Feds Set to Give 400 Farms More Water Than L.A., S.F., San Diego Combined
The federal government is about to make a deal to give a few hundred California farmers control of more water than Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego combined use in a year — at pennies on the...
Energy Independence and Transportation Spending
Policy needs to change at the federal and state levels. For decades, federal transportation dollars have gone overwhelmingly to road projects. State transportation spending has also favored roads over...
How Big Ag Taps Into Taxpayers' Pockets -- Twice
Some of America's richest agribusinesses are double dipping from U.S. taxpayers' pockets at a rate of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) computer...
White House Ties Secure Yates' Drilling Rights to Sensitive N.M. Grasslands
For $2 an acre, the Bush Administration has given the rights to drill for oil and gas on New Mexico's Otero Mesa to a company whose White House connections were key to reversing earlier plans to...
EPA Draft Says MTBE a 'Likely' Cause of Cancer
A EPA draft risk assessment says MTBE, the gasoline additive that has contaminated drinking water in at least 29 states, is a "likely" human carcinogen, according to agency sources.
EWG Supports Proposed Toxics Legislation
The legislation, entitled the "Kids-Safe Chemicals Act of 2005," contains much-needed fundamental reforms of TSCA, the nation's notoriously weak chemical safety law. TSCA has not been reformed in...