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Health and Environment Advocates to Congress: Support National Children’s Study

In a letter to the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations, national and state environmental and health organizations called for full funding of the National Children's Study.
Research

Toxic Chemicals in Kids' Bath Products

Children's bath products are often marketed as safe and gentle. However, laboratory tests commissioned by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics found these products are commonly contaminated with formaldehyde or 1,4-dioxane – and, in many cases, both. These two chemicals, linked to cancer and skin allergies, are anything but safe and gentle and are completely unregulated in children's bath products.
Chemical Policy
Cosmetics

EWG Gives Skin Deep a Makeover

Skin Deep boasts a new look today, featuring smoother navigation, easier search functions and additional tips for consumers looking for information on the ingredients in their soap, deodorant...

Chemical Policy

Nation’s Pediatricians Call on Congress to Protect Kids from Toxic Chemicals

U.S. pediatricians are putting their considerable muscle behind the calls for Congress to overhaul a failed federal law that has exposed millions of children, beginning in the womb, to an untold...

Household & Consumer Products
Cell Phones

WHO finds cell phone radiation possible carcinogen to humans

The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer announced today it has classified cell phone radiation as “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” based on an increased risk for...

Toxic Chemicals

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.

Seasoned Capitol Hill Reporter Joins EWG Public Affairs Staff

The Environmental Working Group is pleased to announce the arrival of Sara Sciammacco as the newest member of its public affairs team as a press secretary.
Chromium-6
Water

Utilities Knew Of Chrome-6 Contamination For Years

Some water utility representatives have protested Environmental Working Group's report of laboratory tests that found worrisome levels of chromium-6, a suspected carcinogen, in the drinking water of...
Farm Subsidies

GOP Proposes To Cut Farm Payments

In a time of robust farm income and tight budgets, the House Republican budget resolution takes a small but welcome step toward a more equitable and sensible support structure for American farmers.

Research

America Needs a True Renewable Energy Policy

Finding ways to reduce fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions while producing enough energy to support economic development worldwide is this century's preeminent challenge. We must meet this challenge while simultaneously reducing environmental degradation, poverty and hunger. The United States must make a sustained commitment to invest in and develop renewable energy sources that
Food & Water
Water

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...
Household & Consumer Products
Sunscreen

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...
California
Federal & State Energy Policy

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...
Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

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.
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

EWG'S 2011 Shopper's Guide Helps Cut Consumer Pesticide Exposure

Environmental Working Group has released the seventh edition of its Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce with updated information on 53 fruits and vegetables and their total pesticide loads. EWG...

EWG's Ken Cook Lauds Departing EPA Chief Jackson For Toxic Chemicals Policies

Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, issued the following statement on the decision by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to step down.

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

"Fiscal Cliff" Deal Extends Flawed Farm Program

WASHINGTON – Buried in the 150-page “fiscal cliff” tax bill passed New Year's Day is a last-minute farm bill extension that buys time for Congress to craft and debate an improved measure to establish...

Toxic Chemicals
Chromium-6
Food & Water
Water

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...
Water

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...
Food & Water
Food

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...
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Widespread Chemical Linked to Higher Cholesterol in Children, Teens

Children and teens exposed to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), the chemical used to make many non-stick and stain-proof coatings, have elevated cholesterol levels, reports a landmark study by West...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
BPA

CA Lawmakers Fail to Ban BPA From Kids’ Food, Drink

Oakland, Ca – In a victory for the chemical industry and a great loss for the health of California's children, the California State Legislature on Tuesday narrowly failed to pass a bill that would...
Toxic Chemicals
BPA

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...
Food & Water
Water
Farm Pollution
Toxic Algae
Toxic Chemicals

UPDATE: Algae Outbreaks Rise Sharply from Coast to Coast

Outbreaks of potentially toxic algae are rising sharply this summer in lakes, rivers and streams in the U.S., according to EWG's ongoing tracking of algae outbreaks.