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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...

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...

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...

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...
Research

What the Chemical Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

It takes a lot of nerve to go up against the $3 trillion-a-year global chemical industry. Ask University of Missouri-Columbia scientists Frederick Vom Saal and Wade Welshons. They've been in the industry's crosshairs for more than a decade, since their experiments turned up the first hard evidence that miniscule amounts of bisphenol A (BPA), an artificial sex hormone and integral component of a

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...

EWG: Infant Formula Companies Should Come Clean on Melamine, BPA

In response to yesterday's report that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found another toxic chemical -- this time melamine -- in infant formula, Environmental Working Group (EWG) today...

Safeway Stores to Remove BPA-Laced Baby Bottles from Shelves

Safeway's announcement today that it will stop selling baby bottles containing the plastics component bisphenol-A (BPA) in its 1,775 stores in the U.S. and Canada is a promising first step toward...

Canada to Take Immediate Action to Reduce BPA Exposure for Infants

As soon as tomorrow, Canadian health officials are poised to list the synthetic sex hormone bisphenol-A (BPA) as a toxic substance. Canada's action, which paves the way for an expected ban on BPA...

Harmful Chemicals Found in Bottled Water

Ten popular U.S. bottled water brands contain mixtures of 38 different pollutants, including bacteria, fertilizer, Tylenol and industrial chemicals, some at levels no better than tap water, according...

Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill’s Passage

Behind the thin green gloss Congressional leaders spread across the subsidy-laden 2008 farm bill, the Democratic Congress is now hacking away at pledges to expand conservation and other environmental...

NIH Refutes FDA’s Claims BPA is Safe for Use

The National Institutes of Health's National Toxicology Program (NTP) concluded today that bisphenol A (BPA), an artificial sex hormone and chemical used in hard plastic products like baby bottles...

EPA Again Decides Not to Regulate Chemicals in Drinking Water

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will not establish safety standards for 11 contaminants in drinking water.

One Pesticide Classified as Unsafe, Hundreds More to Go

Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that carbofuran, already registered as a restricted use pesticide, poses dietary, worker and ecological risks.

Agricultural Pollution Has Contaminated Tap Water in Dozens of Locations So Far in 2020

EWG has found 377 news reports of agricultural pollution contaminating drinking water in 303 locations since 2010. With four months left in 2020, 38 of those cities, towns and counties have suffered...

EWG News Roundup (9/18): Harmful Food Additives, Trump Disses Climate Science and More

EWG News Roundup (9/18): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

5 Things To Avoid in Your Personal Care Products If You’re Pregnant or Trying To Get Pregnant

If you're pregnant, or trying to become pregnant, it's likely you're considering how to limit your exposure to toxic chemicals. After all, you no longer have just your health to think about, you also...

Beyond DuPont’s Game Face On Federal Teflon Chemical Inquiry Lie Aggressive and Illegal Efforts To Control Damage

A routine-seeming government meeting this Friday marks the public debut of what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says is one of the most sweeping regulatory inquiries it has ever mounted...

Cotton and Accountability

It is the big 'what if' question occupying Brazilian policy experts and legislators in the wake of their country's stunning victory over the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in...

The End of Environmental Law as We Know It

The Senate will almost certainly vote next week to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Because of the way she sees the role of government, her confirmation could mark the end of...

Let's Talk Trash

When it comes to food and health, the agriculture system, and consumer choices, the conversation often starts around the dinner table. Laurie David, activist and producer, has written The Family Cooks...

Teflon-Killing Canaries and the American Dream

As a new EWG report shines a light on DuPont's poisoned legacy in the mid-Ohio River Valley, it's a good time to look back at Teflon's canary effect.

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Kellogg's Cereal Recall:

A substance that leached out of cereal packaging and sickened consumers, spurring Kellogg's recall of 28 million boxes of Froot Loops, Apple Jacks and other popular children's cereals, has been identified as a petroleum-based compound that appears to be a breakdown product of chemicals used in the cereal box liners.

Members of Congress Got Nearly $16 Million in Farm Subsidies and Trade War Bailout

Thirty-three members of Congress and their immediate family members collected a total of nearly $16 million in federal farm subsidies between 1995 and 2020, according to updated data from EWG's Farm...