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Testimony on S.697 before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
EWG’s Statement On House Consideration Of GMO Labeling Bill
EWG President Ken Cook issued the following statement today in response to the House's consideration of the Roberts-Stabenow GMO labeling bill the House is expected to take up this week.
What You Don't Know Could Hurt You
Two years of independent scientific monitoring by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) detected an array of toxic pesticides drifting into the air Californians breathe -- the tip of a 100-million-pound iceberg of hazardous chemicals emitted statewide each year as a result of pesticide use.
Personal Care Products Safety Act Letter to Senate Leadership
Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced the Personal Care Products Safety Act, S.1014, which would modernize federal oversight of personal care products. The bill...
EWG Statement on Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture Nominee
Media reports indicate President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as his nominee for Secretary of Agriculture.
Target’s Push for Full Ingredient Disclosure Echoes Consumer Demand
Today's decision by Target to require full ingredient disclosure from its suppliers by 2020 is great news for consumers, said EWG President Ken Cook.
BREAKING: EPA Nominee Ordered to Release Industry Emails
An Oklahoma state judge today ordered Scott Pruitt, the state's attorney general and President Trump's nominee for EPA administrator, to release some 3,000 emails between his office and the fossil...
EWG: Trump’s EPA Budget Cuts Will Be Disaster for Clean Water, Air
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s massive cuts to the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency will cripple the agency’s ability to protect drinking water and air from polluters, and...
Testimony on Conservation Policy Under the Next Farm Bill
Trump’s EPA Budget Cuts Will Hit Lower-Income Communities of Color Hardest
The Trump administration's plan to eliminate funding for environmental justice programs will increase the already outsized burden of toxic pollution borne by lower-income communities of color, EWG...
Black Farmers and EWG Urge Congress to Increase Farm Subsidy Transparency
The National Black Farmers Association and the Environmental Working Group called on leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture committees today to increase transparency in federal farm subsidy...
The English Patients
For decades, U.S. and foreign pesticide manufacturers have been feeding their products to rats, rabbits, mice, and guinea pigs in thousands of controlled laboratory studies, all designed to satisfy government regulatory requirements for chemicals that kill weeds, insects, rodents and other pests. Studies on lab animals are still routinely conducted for pesticides today. But in recent years, in a
EWG Files FOIA Requests to the EPA and USDA for Additional Information on Chloyphiphos Decision
On April 11, 2017, American Oversight and EWG filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture over chlorpyrifos action. Linked here...
EWG Letter to the Members of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committees, in Opposition to H.R. 5
Below is the text of a letter from EWG and other environmental health non-governmental organizations to members of the Senate committees on Homeland Security and Government Affairs in opposition of H...
USDA Chief Rolls Back Progress in Nutrition Standards for School Lunches
Only one week after his confirmation as secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue announced Monday that the Trump administration will roll back the health-protective nutrition standards for school meals...
EWG Comments to the National Toxicology Program on the Evaluation of the Cancer Hazards of Haloacetic Acids
Congressional Leaders Push EPA to Scrap or Delay Proposed Bans on Toxic Chemicals
The House Appropriations Committee is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to scrap or delay proposed bans on three highly toxic chemicals – trichloroethylene, or TCE; methylene chloride, or MC...
California Sets Nation’s Toughest Tap Water Limit for Carcinogenic ‘Garbage’ Chemical
In a unanimous vote today, the California Water Resources Control Board adopted a stringent, health-protective drinking water limit for 1,2,3-trichloropropane, or TCP, an extremely potent carcinogen...
EWG Comments to to the Department of HHS's Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion on the Healthy People 2030 Initiative
Attached are submitted by the Environmental Working Group to the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion proposing six new objectives in the topic...
EWG Comments to California OEHHA's on Human Right to Water Framework
EWG submitted comments in support of OEHHA’s proposed framework to measure progress on California’s state law declaring the Human Right to Water for everyone in the state.
EWG Comments on ATSDR Draft Toxicological Profile for Glyphosate
EWG submits comments on the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Draft Toxicological Profile for Glyphosate, supporting the agency's report of a possible link between glyphosate and non...
EWG Comments to EPA Urging Full-Scale Science Review of Glyphosate
EWG's comments on the Environmental Protection Agency's Draft Risk Assessment for Glyphosate urge the agency to assess the full body of research indicating the Monsanto herbicide Roundup can increase...
EWG Comments to FDA on Sunscreen Safety and Efficacy
EWG has submitted detailed comments to the Food and Drug Administration about the agency can improve sunscreen safety and effectiveness. We also submitted comments jointly with Safer Chemicals Healthy...
EWG Comments to EPA on Proposed Glyphosate Decision
Environmental Working Group objects to the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed decision on glyphosate, the most heavily used pesticide in the U.S. The EPA’s decision to allow continued...