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EWG Statement on S. 796, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009
EWG Supports EPA's Decision to Suspend CHEERS
EWG to FDA, EPA: Expand Nano Investigations
EWG’s in-depth analysis of the Shimkus proposal’s critical flaws.
Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) recently authored the Chemicals in Commerce Act, a discussion draft of legislation purporting to reform our nation’s weak and outdated chemicals management law, the Toxic...
FDA Warns Cosmetics Industry to Follow Law on Untested Ingredients
EWG’s Skin Deep® Database Adds Filter To Identify Products by Black-Owned Brands
Study: Almost All Fluorine Detected in Fire Stations’ Dust Is From Unknown ‘Forever Chemicals'
WASHINGTON – A new study heightens concerns about firefighters' exposure to the fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS: Nearly 99 percent of the fluorine found in tests of dust from inside fire...
Will Land O’Lakes/Microsoft ‘Carbon Bank’ Actually Cut Emissions?
Land O'Lakes touts its new agricultural carbon credits market as a “transformational” program rewarding farmers for adopting conservation practices while “incentivizing” corporations to reduce...
EWG Calls on EPA To Ban Use of Brain-Damaging Pesticide
The neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos should be banned for use immediately by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Working Group wrote in a public comment letter [link to letter] to...
EPA Takes First Step To Address Industrial Pollution From ‘Forever Chemicals’
The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to propose a new rule, asking chemical companies to provide information on the production and discharge of the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, which...
Comments From 30 Organizations to the EPA on Interim Guidance on the Destruction and Disposal of PFAS Chemicals
The Environmental Working Group, along with more than 30 environmental and public health organizations, submitted comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s interim guidance on the destruction...
It’s Time To Protect Firefighters From Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’
Firefighters take enormous risks to protect us. Now it's time to protect them from the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.
‘Forever Chemicals’ Must Be Regulated as a Class
To protect the health of people, communities and the environment, the toxic fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS should not be regulated one by one but as a class, more than a dozen...
3 Things Parents Should Know About Toxic Heavy Metals in Baby Foods
Many popular baby food brands contain dangerous levels of mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic, according to a new investigation by a House of Representatives oversight committee. Exposure to these...
Pesticides in Baby Food
Study: Additive found in Skittles and Starburst no longer considered safe
Do farmers need more federal welfare?
Every year, the American Farm Bureau Federation and other Big Ag lobby groups demand more federal subsidies for farmers. Before that happens this year, with the farm economy white-hot, it’s time to...
EWG news roundup (5/14): How the Biden administration should address the nation’s lead pipe problem, EWG calls on produce industry to support chlorpyrifos ban and more
EWG News Roundup 5/14: Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
At the most contaminated military sites, little to no progress in cleaning up ‘forever chemicals’
EWG applauds bill to end Defense Dept. use of ‘forever chemicals’ in household items
Bipartisan Senate bill would help protect consumers from toxic chemicals in personal care products
Organic sales soar in 2020 to over $61 billion
California Assembly approves bill to sharply reduce lead leaching from water faucets and fixtures
Bayer may end sales of toxic weedkiller Roundup for residential use
