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EWG applauds Biden’s budget for prioritizing FDA food and cosmetics chemical safety
The Environmental Working Group today applauds President Joe Biden for making the safety of chemicals in food and cosmetics a priority for the Food and Drug Administration in the administration’s...
Change the code, not the climate
A campaign to push bitcoin to change its software code to use far less energy was launched today by the Environmental Working Group, Greenpeace USA and several groups battling bitcoin mining...
Change the code, not the climate: The campaign to clean up bitcoin
This campaign is asking the bitcoin community: Will you immediately commit to use your investments and your influence to clean up bitcoin?
Spring is in the air – let’s make sure toxic chemicals aren’t
It’s spring, and many Americans are cleaning out their homes and throwing away what they no longer need. Let’s make sure this happens without using toxic chemicals.
EWG news roundup (4/1): Bitcoin’s climate problem, Biden’s budget prioritizes chemicals in food and cosmetics, and more
This week, the Environmental Working Group joined Greenpeace USA and other groups to kick off the campaign to Change the Code, Not the Climate, which seeks to push bitcoin to change its software code...
Research
For decades, polluters knew PFAS chemicals were dangerous but hid risks from public
As far back as 1950s, studies conducted by 3M studied the toxic doses of PFAS in mice and researchers at Stanford found fluorinated chemicals could build up in our blood. By the 1960s, animal studies conducted by 3M and DuPont revealed that PFAS chemicals could pose health risks. But the companies kept the studies secret from their employees and the public for decades. Here is a timeline of
Cleaning Industry: Simple Steps to Improve Your Grades
Since we released the new online EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning, with ratings of more than 2,000 different products, many consumers and several companies have asked us why some products get low...
Tackling the rising climate costs of American food and farming
Even if the U.S. stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, rising greenhouse gas emissions from food and farming could make a climate catastrophe unavoidable.
What effect do melanin and sunscreen have on vitamin D levels?
Why do people with heavily pigmented skin often have lower levels of vitamin D, and how does sunscreen play a role? These are questions researchers are trying to answer.
Stifling solar: Duke Energy’s long war against North Carolina clean energy
Duke Energy is asking North Carolina utility regulators to approve a plan that could stifle the growth of renewable solar power in the state while hiking ratepayers’ bills – the latest in the monopoly...
Sunscreen - Lessons Learned From a Trip to the Beach
It's fair to say that I'm not a beach person. My hair is pale blonde and my skin is the color of a marshmallow, if it had freckles. I have nightmarish memories of being covered head to toe in...
EPA takes important steps to curb ‘forever chemicals’ in water, but more needed
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced several new actions to address discharges of the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS into lakes, rivers, streams and other sources of drinking water...
EWG news roundup (4/29): EPA to suspend all uses of toxic weedkiller, Duke Energy seeks to stifle clean energy in N.C. and more
EWG news roundup (4/29): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
FDA tests find U.S. food supply awash in pesticide residues
More than 50 percent of thousands of domestic and imported foods tested by the Food and Drug Administration had detectable levels of at least one pesticide, according to results the agency released...
Congress sends historic $369 billion climate, clean energy legislation to President Biden’s desk
The House of Representatives has passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 that includes a landmark $369 billion to fight the climate crisis through incentives for developing clean energy like solar...
Leading industry consumer health expert joins EWG to head Healthy Living Science team
Homer Swei, Ph.D., a leading private sector research and development expert who most recently led Johnson & Johnson’s product stewardship program, has joined EWG as Senior Vice President of the...
EWG news roundup (8/26): Calif. passes bill to ban intentionally added PFAS in cosmetic products, a look at the 2022 toxic algae season and more
EWG news roundup (8/26): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG: Bailout to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant running ‘dangerous and dumb’
California lawmakers have voted to approve Senate Bill 846, thereby paving the way to keep the aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant operating. This action can only hurt the state’s shift to safe...
"We need to stop this."
Finding a nasty flame retardant in peanut butter and other food products brought EWG senior analyst Sonya Lunder to tell E&E reporter Jeremy Jacobs: "We are contaminating our food chain with chemicals...
Study: Communities of color at greatest risk of pesticide exposure in Ventura County, Calif.
In California’s Ventura County, increased agricultural pesticide use and related toxicity risks for humans occur the most in areas with more people of color and limited resources, according to a new...
EWG testimonty to the House Agriculture Committee on soil health practices
Attached is EWG’s testimony to the House Agriculture Committee in support of soil health practices and programs that support regenerative agriculture.
EWG news roundup (10/1): EWG VERIFIED® highlighted in Walmart’s Built for Better program, EPA ‘forever chemicals’ plan omits thousands of dischargers and more
EWG news roundup (10/1): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
FDA bans lead-based neurotoxin from consumer hair dyes
The Food and Drug Administration today banned the use of toxic lead acetate in consumer hair dyes, a vital move to protect the public from hazardous chemicals.
Despite EPA roadmap, Congress must tackle industrial ‘forever chemicals’ discharges
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday issued a long-awaited road map for tackling the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. But it falls short on industrial discharges of PFAS, so Congress...
