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Clean Power Plan Hearing is Trump’s Latest Desperate Act to Save Dying Coal Industry
For the only public hearing on the proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan, the Trump administration picked a location where residents are sure to support the desperate attempt to save the dying coal...
Pollution Pays
Historic PFAS Investments Proposed in House Spending Bills
Three spending bills proposed by the House will make historic investments to address the regulation and cleanup of the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS.
McConnell COVID-19 Relief Package Fails Hungry Families, Food and Farm Workers
The following is a statement from Scott Faber, EWG's senior vice president of government affairs, on the COVID-19 relief package released today by Senate Republicans.
EWG: Without Worker Protections, Trump’s Planned Order To Keep Meat Plants Open During Pandemic Could Be a Death Sentence
President Donald Trump signed an executive order today declaring meat-processing plants essential infrastructure and allowing the Agriculture Department to use the Defense Production Act to force them...
California Legislature Sends Landmark Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act to Gov. Newsom
The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 2762, the Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act. This landmark legislation bans 12 toxic ingredients, such as PFAS, mercury and formaldehyde, which are already...
Bill Requires California To Test Millions of Children for Lead Exposure
The California state legislature sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would protect millions of children from the developmental and health impacts of toxic lead exposure. Assembly Bill 2276 addresses...
Duke Energy’s Shell Game: New Resource Plan Touts Carbon Cuts, But Adds More Gas and Nukes
Duke Energy says it will achieve “net zero” carbon pollution by 2050. But its new resource plan for the Carolinas almost certainly means it will continue to rely on fossil fuels and nuclear reactors...
McConnell COVID-19 Package Fails Farmworkers, Hungry Families
The following is a statement from Scott Faber, EWG's senior vice president for government affairs, on the COVID-19 relief package released today by Senate Republicans.
Consumer Protection Bill California AB 2762 Signed into Law
The Environmental Working Group and the Personal Care Products Council applaud California Gov. Gavin Newsom for signing into law Assembly Bill 2762, which prohibits the sale and manufacture of...
EWG Investigation: In California’s Majority-Latino Communities, 5.25 Million Drink Tap Water With Nitrate Above Federal Limit
In California's majority-Latino communities, 5.25 million people drink tap water contaminated with nitrate at levels at or above the federal limit, according to an Environmental Working Group analysis...
‘Meets All Government Standards’: EWG’S 2019 Tap Water Database Details Unsafe Contamination in Communities Nationwide
Tap Water at Trump National Golf Course Contaminated With Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’
A highly toxic Teflon chemical has been detected in the drinking water sources serving President Trump and other members of the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, N.J., according to a new...
Report: Trump EPA To Limit Science for Chemical, Air, Water Safety Standards
The Environmental Protection Agency has broadened the scope of a proposed rule that will dramatically limit the scientific and medical research the agency considers when crafting chemical, air and...
Trump EPA to Weaken Safeguards of Pesticide Linked to Birth Defects, Cancer
The Trump administration announced in a document posted Thursday that it plans to weaken environmental safeguards for atrazine, a weedkilling pesticide linked to birth defects and cancer in humans.
Dark Waters: Mark Ruffalo Urges Congress To Clean Up ‘Forever Chemicals’
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-dupon…, producer and environmental activist Mark Ruffalo joined Environmental Working Group, other public...
House Democrats Push To Expand, Extend Renewable Energy Tax Credits
Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday released details of a legislative proposal to extend and expand federal tax incentives designed to combat climate change by further...
‘Forever Chemicals' Found in Half of Drinking Water Systems Tested in Kentucky
Half of the tap water supplies tested by Kentucky environmental officials were contaminated with the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS, the state announced this week.
Trump EPA Ignores Worker Safety in Decision on Paint-Stripper Chemical
The EPA announced today it will allow methylene chloride, a dangerous chemical that can kill a person on contact, to remain an ingredient in paint-stripper products for commercial use while banning...
As U.S. Ignores Risks to Kids, E.U. Bans Brain-Damaging Pesticide
The European Union today confirmed it will ban the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food crops early next year, citing the risk of brain damage to children – evidence the U.S. Environmental...
New EWG Map: 305 Military Sites That Used PFAS-based Firefighting Foam
Environmental Working Group today published a map of 305 military installations that used the firefighting foams made with the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, which have likely contaminated...
Europe To Adopt Sweeping Tap Water Limits for PFAS, Other Toxic Contaminants
Give Us a Fake
Based on the evidence presented, the millions who watched the original broadcast might well have answered Walters' questions in the affirmative. After viewing the segment, Walters said she might “cry.” The ABC News investigation seemed to offer compelling proof that millions of consumers were very wrong, indeed, about the benefits of organic food. Even more consumers saw the program when ABC News
EWG Applauds Historic Bipartisan PFAS Vote
EWG today applauded the House for voting to pass H.R. 535, the PFAS Action Act.
