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EPA Hires Right-Wing Media Firm Linked to Oil Industry, Anti-Muslim Group
Arrivederci, Taxpayer Money! Pruitt Spent $120,000 on Weeklong Trip to Italy
Trump EPA Quashes Chemical Safety Rule to Ease ‘Burden’ on Industry
The Environmental Protection Agency today repealed major safety requirements for chemical, agro-chemical and petroleum plants, which President Obama's administration put in place to protect workers...
Pentagon Admits it Undercounted Military Bases Contaminated with ‘Forever Chemicals’
The number of military installations and adjacent communities likely contaminated with toxic fluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, is higher than previously disclosed, a top Defense Department official...
Navy Asks To Delay Landmark PFAS Case in Federal Court
Last week, the Navy asked a federal court to delay a lawsuit seeking to require the military to pay for medical monitoring of people who live near naval installations to determine whether they have...
EWG Hires Jamie Konopacky, Environmental Attorney, as New Midwest Office Director
The Environmental Working Group has hired environmental attorney Jamie Konopacky as EWG's Midwest director, based in Minneapolis, to strengthen and expand EWG's work at the state and local level in...
Congress Fails To Address PFAS Contamination in Nation’s Tap Water or Clean Up Legacy PFAS Pollution
The defense spending bill passed by the Senate today excludes key provisions designed to reduce ongoing releases of the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, remove PFAS from tap water and clean up...
PFAS Contamination of Tap Water Far More Prevalent Than Previously Reported
Revlon First Global Brand To Bring EWG VERIFIED® Clean Cosmetic to Consumers
In a breakthrough move, Revlon becomes the first global brand to bring an EWG VERIFIED® cosmetic product to mass retailers, making affordable clean beauty a reality for millions of discerning...
Uncontrolled Lusts
California regulators have failed to order cleanup or take other legally binding enforcement action on more than 90 percent of the thousands of underground fuel storage tanks known to be leaking toxic chemicals into water and soil throughout the state, although many of the leaks were first reported more than 10 years ago, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) computer-assisted
EPA Chief Scraps Scheduled Ban of Pesticide That Harms Kids’ Brains
In one of his first major decisions as Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt sided with the pesticide lobby over scientists in an eleventh-hour decision to abort the agency's...
Trump Wants to Ax Programs To Protect Children From Lead Poisoning That Cost Taxpayers Less Than His Trips to Florida, Kids’ Business Travel
President Trump's plan to cut funding that helps states protect children from lead poisoning would save less money than the cost of his trips to Florida. It's a callous proposal that again shows the...
Report: Shell and Dow Hid Cancer-Causing 'Garbage' in Pesticide, Contaminating Drinking Water for Millions in California
Here Are the 270,000 North Carolina Property Owners Whose Rights Are Threatened by Pork Industry Bill
A bill rushed through the North Carolina legislature and now on Gov. Roy Cooper's desk would severely restrict the traditional property rights of hundreds of thousands of property owners from the...
Toxic Nonstick Chemicals Contaminate Drinking Water for 15 Million Americans
New research from EWG and Northeastern University in Boston uncovered highly fluorinated toxic chemicals, known as PFCs or PFASs, in the drinking water of 15 million Americans in 27 states, and from...
More than 200 Scientists, Medical Professionals Urge Stricter Limits on Antibacterial Agents
Today EWG joined an international roster of more than 200 scientists and medical professionals to call for stricter limits on antibacterial chemicals that are added to thousands of consumer products...
‘You Don't Do Those Things Lightly’: Why EPA Chief Didn't Ban Brain-Damaging Pesticide
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's defense for allowing the continued use of a dangerous pesticide starkly shows that he doesn't consider protecting children's health to be more...
Procter & Gamble Raises the Bar on Fragrance Ingredient Transparency
Procter & Gamble, the world's biggest maker of both household cleaning and personal care products, announced Wednesday the most sweeping fragrance ingredient transparency initiative to date, said EWG...
Hidden Carcinogen Taints Tap Water, Consumer Products Nationwide
An unregulated cancer-causing industrial solvent, which is also a hidden impurity in cosmetics and household cleaners, was found in samples from tap water supplies for nearly 90 million Americans in...
Attorney Who Exposed DuPont's Teflon Treachery Wins 'Alternative Nobel Prize'
Robert Bilott, the Ohio attorney who exposed DuPont's cover-up of the dangers of a cancer-causing Teflon chemical, is a 2017 laureate of the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the "alternative...
EWG’s 2018 Guide to Bug Repellents Can Help Fend off Disease-Carrying Ticks, Mosquitoes
A number of factors should come into play when you're choosing a bug repellent: what part of the country you live in, where you plan to travel, whether you're pregnant and whether you are planning to...
More Than 40 Percent of U.S. Schools Fail to Test for Lead in Drinking Water
Despite heightened concern in recent years about lead in drinking water, a troubling new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that more than 40 percent of the nation's schools...
Even the Trump Administration Predicts Catastrophic Rise in Global Temperatures by 2100 – and Says It’s Useless to Try to Stop It
The Trump administration, led by a president who called climate change a hoax and is gutting efforts to cut carbon emissions, predicts global temperatures will rise catastrophically by the end of the...
White House Strikes Discussion of Impacts of Climate Change on Children’s Health from Draft EPA Rule
The White House removed key language documenting the heightened risks climate change presents to children from a draft EPA proposal to repeal a rule to reduce heat-trapping chemicals leaking into the...
