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Energy
Federal & State Energy Policy

Oil, Gas and Mining Industries Stake Claim to Most of U.S.' Natural Treasures

For decades, the oil and gas and mining industries have complained that they are locked out of access to public lands that could free the U.S. from dependence on foreign energy sources. Now the first...
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

Twenty-Six House Members Voted For DeLay's MTBE Lawsuit Immunity Bill Despite Contamination In Their Districts

In a move designed to please big oil companies, 26 Members of Congress voted in late 2003 to stop their own communities from being able to sue oil companies for polluting their drinking water with a...

Mercury

Proposed EPA Mercury Rule Leads World in Wrong Direction

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) today condemns the Bush EPA's proposed rule allowing power plants to trade mercury pollution credits.
Farm Subsidies

UK To Reveal Farm Subsidy Recipients

Days after its new Freedom of Information law took effect, and spurred by a joint request from The Guardian newspaper of London and the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) a London-based think tank on global...
Chemical Policy
Pesticides

EWG Demands Halt to Unethical, Scientifically Questionable Study

An Environmental Working Group (EWG) investigation into a controversial pesticide study found that the chemical industry's lobbying arm, the American Chemistry Council (ACC), boasted to its members...
Perchlorate
Food

Children's Health Panel Says EPA Failing to Protect Kids From Rocket Fuel

In a sharp rebuke to the Bush Administration, a federal advisory committee on children's health warns that the EPA's recommended cleanup level for a rocket fuel chemical fails to protect children...
Perchlorate
Food
Water

TOXIC ROCKET FUEL FOUND IN SAMPLES OF CALIFORNIA MILK

Milk from cows raised in some parts of California may expose infants and children to more of a toxic rocket fuel chemical than is considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and...
Mercury

Follow Up to Utility Industry-Funded Study Leads to Finding that Mercury in Fish No Problem, Scores of Independent Studies Suggest

In an effort to divert building efforts to warn American women about the dangers of mercury-contaminated tuna fish, seafood industry lobbyists are hyping a study originally funded by the mercury...
Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

BOXER INTRODUCES BILL TO REGULATE PERCHLORATE

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today introduced legislation to protect drinking water from contamination by the toxic chemical perchlorate.
Arsenic

Nationwide Consumer Testing of Backyard Decks and Playsets Shows High Levels of Arsenic on Old Wood

Results from the largest–ever testing program for arsenic–treated wood, released today by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), show that the public remains at risk from high levels of arsenic...
Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture

Press Release

This week, Monsanto and Solutia defend themselves in a lawsuit by 3,500 plaintiffs seeking compensation for health and environmental damage left behind by the company's production of PCBs in Anniston...
Farm Subsidies

Press Release

As farmers head to the fields to harvest corn, soybeans and other crops that they know will bring ruinously low prices at the local grain elevator, Congressional leaders are quietly arranging a pre...
Food & Water

News Release

Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook demanded that ABC News President David Westin fire reporter John Stossel for fabricating a network-sponsored laboratory study and repeatedly broadcasting...
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Water

Columbus

Pollutants in rivers and other source waters throughout Ohio are contaminating drinking water statewide, a citizen monitoring project has found. Tap water in a dozen Ohio communities is contaminated -...
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Water

New Alliance Forms

Mounting concern over long term health risks and the skyrocketing cost of water treatment associated with pesticide contaminated tapwater in hundreds of midwestern towns has forged an unprecedented...
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

Walmart Plans to Curb Risky Chemicals in Store Items

Today's announcement by mega-retailer Walmart that it will require suppliers to limit or eliminate some chemicals from products it sells shows that consumer awareness of toxic exposure risks is...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

House Fails To Do The Right Thing

The U.S. House of Representatives failed to do the right thing today by passing a bill that will deny food assistance to 6 million Americans, Environmental Working Group (EWG) said in a statement.

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Chromium-6
Food & Water
Water

State “Clean Up” Plan Could Leave 24 Million Californians Exposed to Potent Carcinogen

The State of California's proposed drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6, could leave roughly 24 million residents, or more than 60 percent of the state's population...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Arsenic
BPA
Dioxin
Flame Retardants
Lead
Mercury
Perchlorate
Phthalates

EWG's “Dirty Dozen” list of hormone-disrupting chemicals

EWG and the Keep A Breast Foundation today released a guide to educate consumers about some of the most problematic hormone-altering chemicals that people are routinely exposed to. EWG parntered with...

EWG Hires Leading Digital Innovator

Michael Cervino, a veteran leader in digital analysis and strategic planning, has joined the Environmental Working Group as its Chief Technology Officer. “This hire is part of EWG's broader commitment...

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

EWG Calls on House to Embrace Real Chemical Policy Reform

The Chemical Safety Improvement Act proposed in the Senate “fails to protect public health and the environment and allows chemical companies to keep conducting business as usual, which is the reason...

Energy
California
Federal & State Energy Policy

California Releases Draft Fracking Rules

The California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources has today issued draft rules that will, for the first time ever, regulate all forms of oil and gas well drilling in the state, including...

Research

After Two Decades of Agricultural Disaster Aid A Chronic Dependency Takes Root

The $6.55 billion omnibus measure (The Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006, S. 3855)provides hundreds of millions of dollars for projects and programs completely unrelated to crop and livestock losses associated with drought and hurricanes. Among these extras, there is a subsidy bonus of $1.5 billion in "energy assistance" directed exclusively to subsidized crop farmers who collected over $22
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics

Some BB and CC Creams Can Reduce Toxic Exposures

A new analysis by Environmental Working Group of 100 BB (beauty balm) and CC (color corrector or complexion corrector) creams concludes that they may expose users to fewer toxic chemicals than the...