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Energy

One Million Americans to Fight Industry Efforts to Kill Clean Energy Agenda

Fed up with the undue influence of the energy companies, utilities, lobbyists and other interests that are making it impossible for Washington to move forward decisively in achieving America's clean...

Senate Adopts Common Sense Reform to Crop Insurance Subsidies

Environmental Working Group released this statement on the passage of the Coburn-Durbin amendment to reduce premium subsidies by 15 percent for farm businesses with adjusted gross incomes of more than...

Chemical Policy
BPA
Children’s Health
Cookware & Food Containers
Food

FDA to Ban BPA from Infant Formula

The federal Food and Drug Administration has informed Rep. Edward M. Markey (D-MA) that it is beginning a process that could end the use of the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in infant...

Research

Dog Food Comparison Shows High Fluoride Levels

EWG science review of fluoride and dental health, and why dogs might be at risk from high-fluoride diets.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food

Healthy Food, California Get Short Shrift in Farm Bill

An Environmental Working Group analysis highlights the skewed priorities and gross inequities in federal spending under the nation's most far-reaching food and farm legislation.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation
Food

EWG statement on Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012

Statement of Craig Cox, Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources of the Environmental Working Group, on the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012: “A farm bill that cuts...

Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay

Despite a quarter of a century of effort by farmers, citizens, environmentalists, and government officials to address pollution in the streams, rivers and waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region...
Flame Retardants

Supermarkets Must Halt Use of Storage Racks Made with Toxic Flame Retardant Chemical

In efforts to protect the nation's food supply from further chemical contamination, Environmental Working Group (EWG) today urged the country's largest grocery stores and supermarkets to suspend the...
BPA

BPA Restriction a Step Closer with House Vote on Food Safety Bill

Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Food Safety and Enhancement Act of 2009 (H.R.2749) which included a provision by Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) that would require the...
Toxic Chemicals

Dog Food Contaminated with Levels of Fluoride Above EPA's Legal Limit for Humans

Eight of 10 dog food brands tested by an independent laboratory commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) contain fluoride in amounts up to 2.5 times higher than the Environmental Protection...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

EWG Launches Interactive News and Commentary Site on Toxic Chemicals Policy Reform

Environmental Working Group (EWG) today launched an interactive online site featuring news and commentary, as well as a forum for a thought-provoking exchange of ideas on reforming the nation's...
BPA

Cloud Over BPA Grows As Top Hormone Researchers Warn Of Health Threat

The country's top endocrine scientists have declared the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA) and other environmental pollutants shown to disrupt the endocrine system to be a “significant concern...
BPA

EWG Calls on Coca-Cola to Protect Customers from BPA

Environmental Working Group (EWG) today called on The Coca-Cola Company's chairman and chief executive officer Muhtar Kent to take immediate steps to reduce children's exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), a...
BPA

First-Ever Statewide Ban of BPA Adopted in Minnesota

This morning, Minnesota's governor, Tim Pawlenty (R) signed landmark legislation, the first statewide prohibition on the use of the toxic plastics chemical Bisphenol-A, or BPA, in baby bottles and...
BPA
Regional Issues
California

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...

California

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...
Toxic Chemicals

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...
Energy

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

Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

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...
BPA

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...
BPA

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...
BPA

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...
Water

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...