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EWG Stands By Its Vitamin A Sunscreen Warning
Washington, DC – Environmental Working Group's review of a commentary on the safety of retinyl palmitate in sunscreens, published August 6 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, has...
Fracking for Natural Gas and Oil May Have Broken the Law
WASHINGTON – August 5, 2010. More than 25 conservation and community organizations from across the United States asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a congressional committee to...
EWG’s Ken Cook Testifies On House Proposal to Reform Federal Chemicals Law
Washington, D.C. –Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook testified today that reform legislation now before Congress “is essential to fixing our broken toxic chemicals policy.”
New Study Confirms BPA Exposures from Receipts
Sophisticated tests on paper used to print cash register receipts at 10 suburban Boston-area stores found measurable levels of the controversial plastics chemical bisphenol A in all but two of them...
EWG Tests Find High BPA Loads on Receipts
WASHINGTON, DC – Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) have found high levels of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) on 40 percent of receipts sampled from...
Chemicals Law Overhaul Proposed in House
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressional leaders today introduced in the House the first comprehensive overhaul in more than 30 years of a federal law that has been widely condemned for failing to protect...
Toxic Chemicals in Cosmetics: New Legislation to Prevent Exposure
WASHINGTON, July 21 –For the first time in 70 years, Congress is poised to close the gaping holes in the outdated federal law that allows chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects, learning...
Chemical Agriculture Group Says, Shut Up and Eat Your Pesticides
WASHINGTON, DC - Rachel Carson ignited the debate over pesticide safety a generation ago. Its latest phase began today (July 15).
Hold the Mayo, Extra Pesticides: Americans are sold on organics
Over the past decade, organic produce sales have soared from 3 percent of the retail produce market in the U.S. in 2000 to nearly 11 percent last year, to $9.5 billion. According to surveys by the...
More Potential Giveaways to Ethanol in Energy Bill
WASHINGTON – July 14. In an bid to garner support for legislation to address the looming danger of climate change, Midwest senators are reportedly pressing to attach a long-term extension of biofuel...
Infants Ingest Dioxin at 77 Times EPA’s Safe Threshold
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A review of research conducted by independent laboratories and the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows that one of the most widespread and hazardous contaminants...
EWG Urges EPA to Finalize Dioxin Toxicity Assessment
EWG research found that the amount of dioxin a nursing infant ingests daily is up to 77 times higher than the level EPA has proposed to protect the endocrine and immune systems. The fact that both...
Petrochemical Identified in Recalled Kellogg’s Cereals
WASHINGTON, DC –Kellogg's recently recalled close to 30 million boxes of some of its most popular cereal brands after customers complained of getting sick from smelling and eating breakfast mainstays...
It’s Here: EWG’s Free iPhone App for Sunscreens
WASHINGTON, D.C – Consumers can now turn to their iPhones to assist them in selecting the most effective sunscreen products with a free application, or App, linked to Environmental Working Group's...
Concerns Remain on Voluntary C-8 Phase Out
Oakland, Calif. – The chemical industry's agreement with the federal Food and Drug Administration to phase out toxic perfluorinated compounds used to grease-proof pizza boxes, microwave popcorn bags...
CA House Votes BPA Ban in Kids' Food Wares
Oakland, Ca – The health of California's children was the watchword today in Sacramento as the State Assembly voted 43-31 to ban the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from food and...
HBO to Premiere Explosive Natural Gas Documentary
WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Film director Josh Fox grew up in rural Pennsylvania on the Delaware River, which sits above the natural gas-rich Marcellus shale formation deep underground.
San Francisco Says Cell Phone Retailers Must List Radiation Levels
SAN FRANCISCO, June 9 – The City of San Francisco will require cell phone retailers to display the levels of radiation emitted by their phones, following the Board of Supervisors' adoption Tuesday of...
Driving Under the Influence: Huge Taxpayer Investment in Ethanol Yields Paltry Payoff
WASHINGTON – June 15, 2010. Between 2005 and 2009, U.S. taxpayers spent a whopping $17 billion to subsidize corn ethanol blends in gasoline. What did they get in return? A reduction in overall oil...
Renewable Fuels Goals In Climate Bills Threaten Millions of Acres of Forest
Washington, D.C. – At least 30 million acres of America's forests could be cut down and used for fuel at US power plants if renewable fuels and biomass provisions of current Congressional climate and...