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W. Virginia, Ohio Families Face Toxic Teflon Chemical Risk
A March 10 agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. over drinking water contamination around the company's Parkersburg, WV, plant leaves people...
Children’s Bath Products Contaminated with Formaldehyde, 1,4-Dioxane
Despite marketing claims like “gentle” and “pure,” dozens of top-selling children's bath products are contaminated with the cancer-causing chemicals formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane, according to product...
EWG Updates The Pesticide Shopper’s Guide
Environmental Working Group's (EWG) popular Shopper's Guide to Pesticides has a new look -- and an updated list of fruits and vegetables for consumers who aim to reduce their families' exposure to...
California State Senator Pavley Introduces Legislation to Protect Babies and Toddlers from Toxic BPA Exposure
Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) has introduced legislation sponsored by Environmental Working Group (EWG) to reduce exposure of California's infants and toddlers to the toxic hormone disrupting...
House Hearing to Examine the Case For TSCA Reform
It is the federal law that industry loves and environmentalists love to hate, yet have been unable to reform since it was enacted a generation ago. But a congressional hearing convened today by Rep...
EWG Lauds Obama Pick for USDA’s No. 2 Job
Statement of Ken Cook President, Environmental Working Group Feburary 24, 2009 "President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack have done the public a great service by nominating Kathleen Merrigan...
NY State Admits Ignoring Threat to City’s Drinking Water
According to documents obtained by Environmental Working Group (EWG) through New York's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has not...
EWG Asks EPA Chief To Support Toxics Reform Bill
Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook today urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson to support The Kid-Safe Chemicals Act, a proposed reform of U.S. toxic...
Lautenberg Assumes Powerful Committee Position With Oversight of Toxic Chemicals
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, D-NJ, one of the U.S. Senate's most influential advocates for children's health has assumed the chair of the Environment and Public Works subcommittee charged with...
Bush Handed DuPont Goodbye Gift Over Toxic Teflon Chemical
In the last weeks of the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly handed DuPont Co. a three-year extension to complete tests mandated by a 2005 legal settlement on a...
EWG: Lipstick Chemicals Declared Toxic by Canadian Gov’t
While it's common to see lipstick sales jump during an economic recession, the current global financial crisis may not produce the same result in Canada where the government today declared two...
UCLA study: U.S. Women at Greater Risk from Teflon Chemical
A major new study published yesterday in Human Reproduction, a European reproductive medicine journal, has found that pregnant women and women of child-bearing age in the United States are at greater...
Making a Difference
There is no question that America faces an environmental and energy crisis. Today the American Wind Energy Association reports that Iowa has the second-greatest wind energy generating capacity, topped...
EWG: Nadler Mass Transit Amendment Right on the Money
New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler's amendment to the House version of the stimulus package would boost federal investment in much-needed mass transit to $12 billion and make a major contribution to...
Economic Stimulus Legislation to Save Our Environment and the Economy
The stimulus package devised by President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders - the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan (ARRP) - wisely proposes to channel hundreds of billions of dollars to...
Is the Era of Mining Company Giveaways Over?
The antiquated 1872 Mining Law, a relic of America's westward expansion, has fought off many attempts at reform. Currently hardrock mining companies, many of them foreign, pay no royalties for the...
GAO Calls Reform of Federal Toxics Policy a ‘Top Priority’
In its 2009 ‘High Risk' priority list released yesterday, the General Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a blistering indictment of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Bush-era lapses from...
Bush Moves to Okay Toxic Teflon Pollution in Tap Water
In its final days, the Bush administration appears poised to issue an emergency health advisory for tap water polluted with the toxic Teflon chemical PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) effectively allowing...
Bush EPA Shirks Responsibility Over Perchlorate Contamination
WASHINGTON –- In a last-ditch effort to avoid regulating widespread perchlorate contamination of drinking water, the Bush Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for yet another blue-ribbon...
America Needs a True Renewable Energy Policy
The blind rush by lawmakers to embrace the failed promise of current conventional biofuels has led to growing skepticism in the environmental community that even the much touted next-generation...