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Pesticides

EPA sharply restricts consumer use of diazinon, nation's #2 selling home and garden insecticide

Citing excessive risk to children, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today moved to sharply restrict consumer use of diazinon, the nation's #2 selling home and garden insecticide.
Perchlorate
Water

Aerospace contractor pays Californians $1,000 to eat thyroid toxin in first large-scale human test of water pollutant

On behalf of military contractor Lockheed Martin, Loma Linda University is conducting the first large-scale tests of a toxic drinking water contaminant on human subjects -- a precedent medical...
Research

Federal Fluoride Cap Too High

EWG analysis of Metropolitan Water District fluoridation plans, and potential risks to children's health.

Sustainable Food and Environmental Advocate Joins EWG Board

Anna Getty, a well-known author and advocate for sustainable food and children's health, has joined the board of directors of Environmental Working Group, the nation's leading environmental health and...

Research

Power Drain

Every year, the Central Valley Project (CVP) moves more than 2 trillion gallons of water - about 18 percent of California's fresh water supply - to thousands of farms in the state's arid heartland. Massive pumps push the water through 1,437 miles of canals. The electricity used in one year to move water around the CVP would power all of the homes in Chico for more than 18 months, and at current
Food & Water
Food

Consumers Deserve to Know the Facts about Antibiotics and Meat

The federal Food and Drug Administration has posted a statement on its website criticizing the Environmental Working Group's report, Superbugs Invade American Supermarkets, published April 15. The...

Energy
California
Federal & State Energy Policy

Fracking Bill Gains Bipartisan Support

WASHINGTON – Today Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.) reintroduced the bipartisan Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act of 2013 – a bill that Rep...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

New Analysis Finds Bloated Crop Insurance Subsidies

WASHINGTON -- EWG’s 2013 Farm Subsidy Database, launched today, documents that free-spending federal crop insurance subsidies are badly in need of reform. The new data detail $292.5 billion in...

Food & Water

Clean Energy Advocates Hail Call for “Road Map” for Water Implications of U.S. Energy Policy

Today, leaders of the Committee for the American Clean Energy Agenda praised Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and 22 of her House colleagues for publicly urging U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to...

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

EWG President Ken Cook Weighs In On Senate Chemical Policy Reform Bill

The Chemical Safety Improvement Act introduced by Sens. David Vitter, R-La., and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., is an “unacceptably weak response to the chemical exposure problems American families face...

Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Farm Subsidies

House Fails to Pass Federal Farm Bill

Washington, D.C. --- Scott Faber, EWG’s Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a federal farm bill. The...
Food & Water
Food
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Farm Subsidies

Bill Would Modernize Conservation Programs in Farm Bill

Environmental Working Group (EWG) applauds Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and the other co-sponsors of the Balancing Food, Farm and the Environment Act for recognizing that our land, our food, and our...

Pesticides
Food

Like Strawberries? You'll Love This

The battle over a cancer-causing pesticide often applied to California strawberry fields is over. The maker of the highly toxic methyl iodide has pulled the agriculture pesticide from the American...

Cosmetics
Sunscreen

EWG Statement on Latest FDA Proposed Sunscreen Safety Standards

EWG issued the following statement today in response to the Food and Drug Administration's latest proposed federal safety standards for sunscreens. FDA first announced its intention to implement...
BPA

Federal Panel’s Report on Food Contaminant Flunks Basic Science

The National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) is assessing the health risks of the compound BPA, a toxic ingredient in plastics that...
Asbestos

Senate Panel Passes Asbestos Ban

Eighteen years after the Environmental Protection Agency unsuccessfully attempted to ban asbestos, one of the world's most deadly substances, a Senate panel voted this week to ban the use of the...
Farm Subsidies

Naming (1.5 Million) Names

A new Web site, developed by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) from millions of previously unpublished USDA subsidy records and released today, provides nearly full disclosure of federal farm...
Farm Subsidies

Power Drain

Some of America's richest and largest farms are paying pennies for the vast amounts of electricity needed to deliver irrigation water to California's arid Central Valley.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

EWG President Ken Cook Testifies Before Congressional Committee

Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook testified today before the US House of Representatives Agricultural Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research. Using previously...
Toxic Chemicals

Right-to-Know Rollback will Hide Data on 600K lbs of Toxics in California

The Bush Administration has adopted regulations that will dramatically roll back Americans' right to know about chemical hazards in their neighborhoods, allowing California industries to handle almost...

Environmental, Health, Business and Public Policy Experts Join EWG Board

Six new members have taken seats on the board of directors of Environmental Working Group, collectively bringing with them decades of experience in environmental activism, grassroots organizing...
Energy
Midwest

Will the Real Ethanol Beneficiaries Please Stand Up?

This month's election is being called a referendum on taxpayer-funded bailouts and wasteful federal spending, but Congress may not have gotten the message. It's poised to approve billions in...
Farm Subsidies

In Farm Country, Democrats’ Bitter Harvest

Just two years ago, Democratic political strategists defended passage of a status-quo farm subsidy bill by claiming it was essential to the survival of freshmen members from farm districts and to the...
Household & Consumer Products
Sunscreen

EWG Asks FDA Advisors to Back Sunscreen Regulations

Environmental Working Group (EWG) asked a prestigious expert advisory panel to urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue long-awaited regulations for sunscreen products.