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Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies

Cleaners’ ingredients would finally be disclosed under new bill

A ground-breaking consumer right-to-know bill introduced today by Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) would close labeling requirement loopholes that have allowed manufacturers to hide untested and even...

Chemical Policy
BPA

Chemical Giants Bow to BPA Ban in Kids' Foodware

Yielding to pressure from parents, health advocates, and lawmakers, the chemical industry has conceded that the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol-A should not be used to make baby bottles and sippy...

Research

CDC Scientists Find Rocket Fuel Chemical In Infant Formula

Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported that 15 brands of powdered infant formula are contaminated with perchlorate, a rocket fuel component detected in drinking water in 28 states and territories.
California

Fracking Panel Ducks Substance, Focuses on Messaging

In a draft report on the increasingly controversial practice of shale gas drilling, the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board Subcommittee sidestepped the crucial question of whether hydraulic...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Despite Claims of Reform, Subsidy Band Marches On

As the Senate Agriculture Committee meets today to discuss accountability and spending on farm programs, new data washes away the gloss of reform used by the subsidy lobby and its champions in...

California

EPA: Water Wells Contaminated Near Fracking Blowout Site

Underscoring the risks to drinking water supplies of hydraulic fracturing, three water samples collected from private wells following a blowout at a Chesapeake Energy Corp. natural gas drilling site...

Energy
Midwest

EPA Misfires on New Misfueling Rule

For three decades, the politically well-connected corn ethanol industry has been able to harness government support without much thought to the fuel's harm to health, the environment and engines...

Household & Consumer Products

Just In Time for the 4th of July: EWG Adds New Products to Sunscreen Guide

Since releasing the 2011 Sunscreen Guide in May, Environmental Working Group has received dozens of requests from companies and supporters alike asking to add more of their favorite products to the...

Chemical Policy

Lautenberg Advances Bill to Protect Kids from Toxic Chemicals

In 2005, Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.) was the first lawmaker ever to offer a road map for fixing the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, which has allowed tens of thousands of toxic substances...

California
Federal & State Energy Policy

Administration Stacks Panel With Big Oil and Gas

The Obama administration panel named May 5 to study hydraulic fracturing, a natural gas drilling technique that injects thousands of gallons of chemical-laced water into the ground, is dominated by...

Chemical Policy

Is the Chemical Industry Looking for Chemicals in People?

Only a scant number of chemical industry studies documenting Americans' exposures to industrial chemicals appear on public databases maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and even...

Farm Subsidies

Obama Would Cut Subsidies to Wealthy Farms

The Obama administration's proposed 2012 federal budget released today targets several wasteful agriculture programs, including cutting $4.25 billion over 10 years from subsidies to large farm...
Farm Subsidies

EWG News Release

The Bush Administration is paying some of the biggest and richest agribusinesses in America $17 million for cutbacks in their taxpayer-subsidized water supply. But an Environmental Working Group (EWG)...
Toxic Chemicals
Arsenic
Household & Consumer Products

EPA Reverses Course: Arsenic-Treated Playground Equipment Poses Unacceptable Lifetime Cancer Risk to Children

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released the most comprehensive study to date of the health risks of arsenic-treated wood, which has been used for decades to build decks, playsets...
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

CPSC Denies Petition to Ban CCA Pressure-Treated Wood Playground Equipment

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted unanimously today to deny a petition to ban the use of chromated copper arsenate (CCA) pressuretreated wood in playground equipment.
Toxic Chemicals

Groups Want Whitman to Explain How Monsanto Escaped Crackdown for Decades of PCB Pollution

Public interest groups today called on US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christine Todd Whitman to explain a key change in a controversial and highly unusual pollution cleanup...
Chemical Policy
Perchlorate

Capps Bill Would Curb Toxic Perchlorate Contamination Chemical Found in California Water, Agriculture Products

Congresswoman Lois Capps today introduced legislation to protect Americans from perchlorate, a chemical contaminate that has seeped into underground water supplies and has recently been detected in...
Household & Consumer Products

Ford Caught Lying - Again

Ford has been the subject of some strong charges by our organization about its veracity with customers and the public about the safety of its Bronco II-Explorer model line.
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

EWG's Response to Glacier's Letter

On Dec. 10 the Environmental Working Group and the Environmental Law Foundation released the results of tests on water purchased from 274 Glacier vending machines in California. Analysis of the...
Mercury

EWG Files Legal Challenge to FDA Mercury Health Advisory

Today EWG filed a legal challenge seeking to block the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from issuing a weak proposed health advisory for mercury in seafood. New analyses contained within the filing...
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

Arsenic Lobbyists Coming Out of Woodwork

For decades, they made the world safe for skyrocketing sales of arsenic-soaked wood, and dangerous for the millions of Americans who were exposed to the material, and are still exposed today. But...
Toxic Chemicals
Conservation

DIRTY AIR A CAUSE OF DEATH FOR MORE THAN 9,300 CALIFORNIANS

Pollution from airborne soot and dust causes or contributes to the deaths of more Californians than traffic accidents, homicide and AIDS combined, according to a new report released today by...
Research

Washington Post Wrong

On Oct. 4, The Washington Post had a scoop: According to a front-page story by Sally Squires, a new report by “top scientists from private groups and federal agencies,” advised pregnant and breast-feeding women to eat at least 12 ounces of fish a week “to ensure their babies' optimal brain development.”
Arsenic
Household & Consumer Products

News Release

Nationwide sampling in 13 metropolitan areas found harmful levels of cancer-causing arsenic on the surface of "pressure-treated" wood purchased at Home Depot and Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse...