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Timeline: Black Farmers and the USDA, 1920 to Present
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a long history of discrimination against Black farmers.
EWG News Roundup (2/5): Investigation Finds Toxic Heavy Metals in Baby Food, the Recent History of USDA Discrimination Against Black Farmers and More
On Thursday, a congressional investigation revealed it had found that a number of widely sold baby food brands are tainted with dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, cadmium...
EWG Grieves for Atlanta Victims, Condemns Surge in Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans
The Environmental Working Group is outraged and deeply saddened by the slaughter in the Atlanta area of eight innocent Americans, including six of Asian descent.
Grease thieves, corn oil and fraud: How biofuel scam artists bilked U.S. taxpayers of billions
One in a series of articles on “ None of the Above ” In June 2016, Dave Larson sat in his boss’ office at Triton Energy LLC, in Waterloo, Indiana, filling out a worker’s compensation form. The day...
PFAS news roundup
On Wednesday, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott signed into a law a ban on the sale of certain products containing the toxic “forever chemicals" called PFAS, including firefighting foam and equipment, food...
EWG news roundup (5/21): EWG calls on the FDA to consider banning titanium dioxide use in food, concerns with a new generation of PFAS compounds and more
This week, EWG called on the Food and Drug Administration to consider a ban on titanium dioxide use in food.
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Pesticide Industry Propaganda: The Real Story
Sometimes misinformation is repeated so often that it sounds like fact. Such is the case with the rampant misinformation trumpeted by opponents of tougher health standards for pesticides. This report covers eight myths about pesticides that you have heard repeatedly in the media, including claims that animal tests are irrelevant to protecting humans, and that a person would have to eat some huge
EWG news roundup (5/28): Little progress on cleanup of ‘forever chemicals’ at military bases, a healthy and safe Memorial Day and more
EWG news roundup (5/28): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
Federal appeals court rejects Trump administration’s last-minute approval of toxic pesticide banned in more than 100 countries
The federal Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia this week rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the highly toxic pesticide aldicarb on Florida oranges and grapefruits.
EWG News Roundup (2/19): Protecting Infants From Heavy Metals in Food, USDA Data Shows Nearly All Covid-19 Bailout Money Went to White Farmers and More
EWG News Roundup (2/19): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
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"Congress, We Have A Problem"
Earth Day would become an annual environmental autopsy if legislation proposed and voted on in the 104th Congress actually became law. Drawing on computer databases and new research, the Environmental Working Group analyzed 12 major pieces of anti-environmental legislation, and found that congressional plans would increase contamination of tap water, cause significantly more pollution of lakes
EWG News Roundup (2/26): Trump’s USDA Sent Farm Subsidies to Richest Farmers, Environmental Racism in America and More
EWG News Roundup (2/26): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
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Pineland Sands
The Pineland Sands is a 770-square-mile area in northern Minnesota, home to globally threatened jack pine forests and abundant wetlands. The entire region is underlain by a critical, shallow and highly vulnerable drinking water aquifer, which lies just a few feet beneath sandy surface soils. The Pineland Sands also contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Chemicals and fertilizers that
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For 20-plus years, EPA has failed to regulate ‘forever chemicals’
The Environmental Protection Agency was first alerted to the health hazards of toxic fluorinated chemicals, known as PFAS, in 1998. In the decades since, the agency has failed to set enforceable regulations on PFAS in drinking water, food, food packaging and a wide array of other everyday consumer goods. In 2009 and 2019, the EPA announced toothless PFAS “action plans” that fall far short of what
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Nitrate: Trouble in Farm Country
More than 2 million Americans in hundreds of small, mostly rural communities are drinking water with levels of nitrate that increase the risk of some cancers, according to a recent comprehensive review of the health effects of nitrate in drinking water. EWG’s Trouble in Farm Country report found that drinking water for 1,695 towns with 25,000 or fewer people was contaminated with nitrate at or
Calif. bill to sharply reduce lead leaching from faucets and fixtures passes key committee
State legislation to set a legally enforceable limit on the amount of lead leaching from drinking water faucets and fixtures passed out of the California Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic...
EWG applauds ‘forever chemicals’ provisions in Biden budget
The Environmental Working Group today applauded the Biden administration for making the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS a priority in its annual budget request.
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Setting the Record Straight
EWG's response to a pesticide industry-funded 'critique' of their report Tap Water Blues, which documented public health risks from drinking water contaminated with herbicides.
Landmark bipartisan PFAS Action Act introduced in Congress
Today Reps. Debbie Dingell (D) and Fred Upton (R) both from Michigan, introduced comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to protect all Americans from the harmful “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.
EWG comments to NAS on EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System program
The Environmental Working Group submitted comments to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, emphasizing the Hallmarks of Cancer approach as a part of the cancer hazard...
EWG applauds introduction of Superfund ‘polluter pays’ bill
Polluters, not taxpayers, would be on the hook to pay the exorbitant cleanup costs for the most contaminated sites in the country if legislation proposed today becomes law.
EWG and EnergySage team up to help Americans go solar
With solar power more affordable and accessible than ever before, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and EnergySage are joining forces to help Americans learn about and save with solar. The new...
California agency acknowledges synthetic food dyes’ link to hyperactivity and behavioral problems in kids
Foods containing synthetic food dyes make children vulnerable to hyperactivity and other behavioral problems, according to a new report by California state scientists.
EWG news roundup (4/30): Years of EPA inaction on brain-damaging pesticide, Duke Energy watchdog group to hold second hearing and more
EWG news roundup (4/30): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.