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EWG Grieves for Atlanta Victims, Condemns Surge in Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans

The Environmental Working Group is outraged and deeply saddened by the slaughter in the Atlanta area of eight innocent Americans, including six of Asian descent.

Grease thieves, corn oil and fraud: How biofuel scam artists bilked U.S. taxpayers of billions

One in a series of articles on “ None of the Above ” In June 2016, Dave Larson sat in his boss’ office at Triton Energy LLC, in Waterloo, Indiana, filling out a worker’s compensation form. The day...
Biofuels Blog
Water
Household & Consumer Products
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PFAS Chemicals

PFAS news roundup

On Wednesday, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott signed into a law a ban on the sale of certain products containing the toxic “forever chemicals" called PFAS, including firefighting foam and equipment, food...
This week in PFAS
Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Bug Repellent
Sunscreen
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

EWG news roundup (5/21): EWG calls on the FDA to consider banning titanium dioxide use in food, concerns with a new generation of PFAS compounds and more

This week, EWG called on the Food and Drug Administration to consider a ban on titanium dioxide use in food.
Research

Pesticide Industry Propaganda: The Real Story

Sometimes misinformation is repeated so often that it sounds like fact. Such is the case with the rampant misinformation trumpeted by opponents of tougher health standards for pesticides. This report covers eight myths about pesticides that you have heard repeatedly in the media, including claims that animal tests are irrelevant to protecting humans, and that a person would have to eat some huge

EWG news roundup (5/28): Little progress on cleanup of ‘forever chemicals’ at military bases, a healthy and safe Memorial Day and more

EWG news roundup (5/28): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Food & Water
Water
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

Federal appeals court rejects Trump administration’s last-minute approval of toxic pesticide banned in more than 100 countries

The federal Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia this week rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the highly toxic pesticide aldicarb on Florida oranges and grapefruits.
Orange tree

EWG News Roundup (2/19): Protecting Infants From Heavy Metals in Food, USDA Data Shows Nearly All Covid-19 Bailout Money Went to White Farmers and More

EWG News Roundup (2/19): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

"Congress, We Have A Problem"

Earth Day would become an annual environmental autopsy if legislation proposed and voted on in the 104th Congress actually became law. Drawing on computer databases and new research, the Environmental Working Group analyzed 12 major pieces of anti-environmental legislation, and found that congressional plans would increase contamination of tap water, cause significantly more pollution of lakes

EWG News Roundup (2/26): Trump’s USDA Sent Farm Subsidies to Richest Farmers, Environmental Racism in America and More

EWG News Roundup (2/26): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Research

Pineland Sands

The Pineland Sands is a 770-square-mile area in northern Minnesota, home to globally threatened jack pine forests and abundant wetlands. The entire region is underlain by a critical, shallow and highly vulnerable drinking water aquifer, which lies just a few feet beneath sandy surface soils. The Pineland Sands also contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Chemicals and fertilizers that
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For 20-plus years, EPA has failed to regulate ‘forever chemicals’

The Environmental Protection Agency was first alerted to the health hazards of toxic fluorinated chemicals, known as PFAS, in 1998. In the decades since, the agency has failed to set enforceable regulations on PFAS in drinking water, food, food packaging and a wide array of other everyday consumer goods. In 2009 and 2019, the EPA announced toothless PFAS “action plans” that fall far short of what
Research

Nitrate: Trouble in Farm Country

More than 2 million Americans in hundreds of small, mostly rural communities are drinking water with levels of nitrate that increase the risk of some cancers, according to a recent comprehensive review of the health effects of nitrate in drinking water. EWG’s Trouble in Farm Country report found that drinking water for 1,695 towns with 25,000 or fewer people was contaminated with nitrate at or
Farm spraying
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
Lead
Regional Issues
California

Calif. bill to sharply reduce lead leaching from faucets and fixtures passes key committee

State legislation to set a legally enforceable limit on the amount of lead leaching from drinking water faucets and fixtures passed out of the California Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic...
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

EWG applauds ‘forever chemicals’ provisions in Biden budget

The Environmental Working Group today applauded the Biden administration for making the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS a priority in its annual budget request.
Research

Setting the Record Straight

EWG's response to a pesticide industry-funded 'critique' of their report Tap Water Blues, which documented public health risks from drinking water contaminated with herbicides.
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Landmark bipartisan PFAS Action Act introduced in Congress

Today Reps. Debbie Dingell (D) and Fred Upton (R) both from Michigan, introduced comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to protect all Americans from the harmful “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.
Family Health
Toxic Chemicals

EWG comments to NAS on EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System program

The Environmental Working Group submitted comments to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, emphasizing the Hallmarks of Cancer approach as a part of the cancer hazard...

Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
Arsenic
Mercury
PFAS Chemicals

EWG applauds introduction of Superfund ‘polluter pays’ bill

Polluters, not taxpayers, would be on the hook to pay the exorbitant cleanup costs for the most contaminated sites in the country if legislation proposed today becomes law.
Energy
Utilities
Federal & State Energy Policy
Renewable Energy

EWG and EnergySage team up to help Americans go solar

With solar power more affordable and accessible than ever before, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and EnergySage are joining forces to help Americans learn about and save with solar. The new...
Solar panel installation
Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Food Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

California agency acknowledges synthetic food dyes’ link to hyperactivity and behavioral problems in kids

Foods containing synthetic food dyes make children vulnerable to hyperactivity and other behavioral problems, according to a new report by California state scientists.

Child looking at cereal

EWG news roundup (4/30): Years of EPA inaction on brain-damaging pesticide, Duke Energy watchdog group to hold second hearing and more

EWG news roundup (4/30): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

The Farm Bill Released Today Creates New Farm Subsidy Loopholes That Will Further Distort the Farm Safety Net

Today Scott Faber, senior vice president of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group, issued the following statement on farm subsidies in Congress’ final farm bill: “The farm bill...

Toxic Chemicals
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Glyphosate
Food & Water
Food

Public Interest Groups on WHO's decision on Glyphosate

We the undersigned organizations strongly urge the Environmental Protection Agency to weigh heavily the decision last week by the World Health Organization to categorize glyphosate (trade name...