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EWG Cleaners Hall of Shame Reveals Hidden Hazards
EWG's Cleaners Hall of Shame unearths compelling evidence that common household cleaners, including some hyped as “safe” or “natural,” can inflict serious harm on unwary users.
Study Documents How Shooting Ranges Poison Children; One of the Nation's Top Lead Polluters
Study Shows Infants Exposed to Reproductive Toxins from Shampoo, Lotion, and Powder
Metropolitan Water District Urged to Warn Customers of Fluoride Risks to Infant
EWG Names New Executive Director
Heather White has been named executive director of Environmental Working Group, the Washington-based nonprofit consumer advocacy and research organization announced today.
Crying Wolf on Climate Change
California’s Climate Change Policy Leaves Agriculture in the Dust
House Agriculture Leaders To Cut Conservation, Protect Direct Payments
EWG strongly opposes a drought disaster package proposed by House agriculture committee leaders that would be paid for with damaging and unnecessary cuts to conservation programs.
Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay
Nation’s Top Chefs, Food and Nutrition Experts Denounce Flawed House Farm Bill
More than 60 leading chefs, authors, food and agriculture policy and nutrition experts, business leaders and environment and health organizations have sent an open letter to Capitol Hill objecting...
House Farm Bill: Bad for Taxpayers, Hungry Families, and the Environment
Environmental Working Group joined anti-hunger, public health, labor, and animal welfare groups at the National Press Club to voice deep concerns with the recently passed House Agriculture Committee...
Taxpayers Paid $6.1 Million in Farm Subsidies to Members of Congress, Families
Environmental Working Group's latest update of the EWG farm subsidy database shows that 23 members of Congress, or their family members, benefitted from $6,140,634 in taxpayer-funded farm subsidy...
Drillers Got Inside Track on N.Y. Fracking Rules
New York regulators granted natural gas industry representatives exclusive access to shale gas drilling regulations as early as six weeks before they were made public, according to documents obtained...
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...
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...
Dog Food Comparison Shows High Fluoride Levels
Healthy Food, California Get Short Shrift in Farm Bill
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...