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Millionaire Farmers Still Receiving Subsides Despite Attempts at Reform

In times of tight budgets and empty federal coffers, millionaires, large profitable farm operations and wealthy absentee landlords are still receiving federal farm subsidies, despite repeated attempts...

Infant Formula Makers and Canned Food Producers Called On To Remove BPA

In the wake of an FDA advisory panel's devastating rebuke of the agency's safety assessment for the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA) Environmental Working Group (EWG) has written North...

FDA Panel Breaks With Agency and Chemical Lobby on Toxic Plastics Chemical Safety

In a stinging rebuke to the Food and Drug Administration, a key science advisory panel has broken with Bush FDA officials and the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and embraced the position of public...

Making Chemicals Safe for Kids: Senate Panel Will Examine ‘Broken’ Toxics Law

The nation's toxic chemical regulatory law is broken and fails completely to protect children and other Americans from exposure to dangerous industrial compounds, experts will tell a Senate oversight...

Legislation Would Require Clear Labeling of GE Food

Environmental Working Group applauds Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) for introducing the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, bipartisan legislation that would...

EWG Commends Whole Foods for Setting Deadline for Labeling GE Foods

Environmental Working Group applauds food retailer Whole Foods Market for its decision to label any foods sold in its U.S. and Canadian stores that contain genetically engineered ingredients by 2018...

EWG President Ken Cook's statement on California Proposition 37

Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group and a California resident, issued the following statement on the defeat of Proposition 37 – the California ballot initiative that would have...

Top Natural Foods Industry Leaders Say California's Prop 37 GMO Labeling Bid Won't Raise Food Prices

Executives of Whole Foods Market and other top natural and organic food companies held a conference call with reporters yesterday to support California's Proposition 37, a ballot initiative that calls...

Chemical Giants Spend Millions To Fight GMO Food Labeling

Americans eat their weight yearly in genetically engineered food, much of it created by large chemical and pesticide companies funding an expensive ad campaign to defeat the common-sense Proposition...

GMO Ag Company Touts Seed Corn With A Bug Zapper in Every Bite

Pesticide and chemical companies battling California's Proposition 37, to require labeling of genetically engineered foods, are telling Californians these genetically engineered foods are perfectly...

Johnson & Johnson Cleans Formaldehyde Out Of Baby Products, Moving To Adult Goods

Washington, D.C. – EWG executive director Heather White said that personal care products giant Johnson & Johnson has taken a major step forward by reformulating about 100 of its baby products to...

Farm Bill Falls Far Short Of Vital Reform

The bill produced by the farm bill conference committee falls far short of the reforms needed to create a federal food and agricultural policy that can meet the challenges of the 21st century, the...

Obama Energy Plan Threatens Air, Land, Water

President Obama's State of the Union message calling for accelerating natural gas production is “a serious threat to our air, land and water,” Environmental Working Group president Ken Cook said today...

Waxman’s Retirement Huge Loss for Environment, Public Health

The departure of environmental and public health champion Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., “will be an enormous loss to anyone who cares about safe drinking water, clean air, food safety and children's...

Farm Bill Takes Food and Farm Policy Down the Wrong Path

Environmental Working Group (EWG) released the following statement in response to the passage of the farm bill in the Senate.

Off the Books: Industry’s Secret Chemicals

Thousands of Chemical Names and Ingredients Kept Under Wraps At EPA

Despite Record Deficits and Anger Over Government Spending, Federal Commodity Crop Spending Continues Unabated

In a time of ballooning federal budget deficits, robust farm income and increasing populist anger over government spending and intervention in the private sector, it would seem prudent to trim...

Lawmakers, Researchers, Doctors Reject Schwarzenegger’s Flawed Green Chemistry Proposal

Oakland, Calif. – Lawmakers, public health advocates, scientists, public utility managers and medical doctors are demanding that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger withdraw his administration's...

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...

More Corn Ethanol Means More Harm to Consumers, the Environment

WASHINGTON – The decision by a federal appeals court not to block the sale of gasoline containing 15 percent corn ethanol (known as E15) is a setback for consumers and the environment, says...

Procter & Gamble Agrees to Reduce Carcinogen in Tide

Washington, D.C. – Procter & Gamble has agreed to reformulate Tide and other popular laundry detergents to reduce contamination with 1,4 dioxane, defined as a carcinogen by California consumer product...

100 million+ Americans Exposed to Forgotten Toxics in Drinking Water

A new Environmental Working Group analysis of 2011 water quality tests by 201 large U.S. municipal water systems that serve more than 100 million people in 43 states has determined that all are...

Calif. Governor Signs Cleaning Product Disclosure Law

In a major victory for consumers' and workers' right to know, Gov. Brown has signed a bill into law that requires manufacturers of a wide array of cleaning products to disclose ingredients.

Report: Suspected Carcinogen from Farm Runoff Fouls Drinking Water Across Rural America

Drinking water supplies for millions of Americans in farm country are contaminated with a suspected cancer-causing chemical from fertilizer, according to a new report by the Environmental Working...