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10 LA County Plants Long Overdue
Half of major industrial water polluters in California are operating with expired pollution permits, according to state and federal data analyzed by Environmental Working Group (EWG) and Friends of...
EWG Investigation Finds Controversial 1996 Farm Law Was Subsidy Boon for Largest Farms
Taxpayers may not realize it, but the billions they spend on subsidies to save family farms may be hastening their demise.
Banned pesticide, others found on Washington State apples
Despite an August ban by the federal government on an apple pesticide, recent tests of State of Washington apples show dangerous levels of the bug killer and other agriculture chemicals on the fruit.
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More than 2.3 million pounds of the acutely toxic pesticide methyl bromide are applied near California schools each year, but the state is proposing new regulations that ignore its own scientists'...
Toxic Waste Widespread in Calif. Farm & Home Fertilizers
Californians are unknowingly spreading fertilizers made from toxic waste to farm fields and home gardens, according to state and independent tests. Even though these products may exceed state...
US Sues Electric Utilities for Clean Air Act Violations
Group Touts Federal Action Against Dirty, Coal-Burning Plants
Do As We Say, Not As We Do: Utilities Preach Conservation, Cut Consumer Efficiency Programs
In the five years before electricity deregulation, California utilities cut funding in half for programs that save energy, save customers money, and help save the environment.
How California's Major Air Polluters Get Away With It
Two years after an EPA investigation blasted California's air pollution enforcement as inadequate to stop big polluters, East Bay oil refineries continue to commit hundreds of violations of state and...
Researchers Seek Emergency Ban on Toxic Insecticide
Ten years after a consumer revolt against apples treated with the carcinogen Alar prompted a ban on the chemical, children are no better protected from pesticides in the nation's food supply...
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 -...
News Release
By cutting energy efficiency programs almost in half, electric utilities are sticking consumers with bigger electric bills and dirty air, concludes Unplugged, a new study by the Environmental Working...
Toledo
Pollutants in rivers and other source waters throughout Ohio are contaminating drinking water statewide, a citizen monitoring project has found.
Pesticide Companies Using Humans in Lab Studies
For decades, U.S. and foreign pesticide manufacturers have been feeding their products to rats, rabbits, mice, and guinea pigs in thousands of controlled laboratory studies, all designed to satisfy...
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Lack of basic environmental practices at major U.S.hospitals is resulting in serious pollution problems and contamination of major foods, including baby foods, a new study has found.
Farm Pesticide Use on Rise
Five years after the Clinton Administration promised a bold initiative to reduce pesticide use and make children's health the top priority in federal pesticide regulation, the government has done...
Toxic Wastes 'Recycled' as Fertilizer Threaten U.S. Farms and Food Supply
Under the guise of 'recycling,' millions of pounds of toxic waste are shipped each year from polluting industries to fertilizer manufacturers and farmers, who used toxic waste laden with dioxin, lead...
One Million Kids a Day Exposed to Unsafe Levels of Toxic Pesticides in Fruit, Vegetables, and Baby Food
Every day, 1 million American children age 5 and under consume unsafe levels of a class of pesticides that can harm the developing brain and nervous system, according to a new analysis of federal data...
Industry Wages Fight with Campaign Contributions
An analysis of campaign contributions and air pollution data released today by the Environmental Working Group concludes that too many politicians side with their contributors and against their...
EWG Air Monitoring Finds Hazardous Levels of Methyl Bromide
EWG Air Monitoring Finds Hazardous Levels of Methyl Bromide in Yards of Castroville Residents State's Tighter Restrictions Not Enough; Neighbors Call for Ban of Chemical
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...