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Flake and Duncan Propose Smart Reform of Crop Insurance
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Rep. John Duncan (R-Tenn.) today introduced companion bills in Congress that would provide much-needed reform of the heavily subsidized federal crop insurance program...
Big Market for Black Cosmetics, but Less-Hazardous Choices Limited
In a growing market for Black cosmetics, Black women nonetheless have limited choices for products that score low in potentially harmful ingredients, an EWG analysis of more than 1,100 products found...
Author and Advocate Meg Hirshberg Joins EWG’s Board of Directors
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg, a nationally recognized health and wellness advocate and author, has joined the board of directors at EWG, further raising the group's profile as the nation's leading...
Picking Pruitt for EPA, Trump Signals Campaign Attacks Against Public Health Will Become Policy
The nation's public health protection laws, including those in place to reduce pollution in our air, land and water, will be under withering assault with President-elect Donald Trump's apparent pick...
Gas Tax Losers
EWG: Senate Panel Breaks Rules, Approves ‘Worst EPA Nominee in History’
Scott Pruitt, approved today by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee as the next head of the Environmental Protection Agency, would take office as the worst EPA administrator in history...
In Game-Changing Move, Unilever Will Disclose Fragrance Ingredients to Consumers
For decades, federal regulations have let companies use the word “fragrance” on soap, shampoo, skincare and other personal care product labels to hide the identity of multiple chemicals, many of them...
EWG Calls on Justice Department to Investigate Pruitt’s Potentially Misleading Statements to Senate Environment Panel
The Environmental Working Group urged the Department of Justice today to investigate whether Scott Pruitt, President Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, made false or...
EWG: DuPont Settles Big Teflon Case, But PFOA Pollution Lingers Nationwide
DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours agreed today to pay $671 million to settle about 3,500 lawsuits from West Virginia and Ohio residents whose drinking water was poisoned by a cancer-causing...
Plate of the Union: New Campaign Will Activate Consumers for Healthy Food and Sustainable Farm Policy
Every five years, the government passes an almost-trillion-dollar piece of legislation that profoundly impacts food and farm policy. For decades, big agribusiness has dominated the process, with its...
Food: Powerful Medicine to Defend Against Cancer
What we eat is strongly and intricately linked to our health. No food or nutrient is a panacea against disease, but eating right can help prevent many serious diseases, including heart disease...
Advocates Petition FDA to Bar Toxic Lead Compound from Hair Dyes
A group of public health advocates today announced that the Food and Drug Administration will consider removing its approval of lead acetate in hair dyes such as Grecian Formula. The group filed a...
The 2017 Dirty Dozen: Strawberries, Spinach Top EWG's List of Pesticides in Produce
Strawberries remain at the top of the Dirty Dozen™ list of the EWG Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce™, with spinach jumping to second place in the annual ranking of conventionally grown produce...
From Satellite Imagery, EWG's First-Ever Analysis of Cover Crops in U.S. Corn Belt
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving farmers millions of taxpayer dollars a year to support the planting of cover crops, which reduce polluted runoff from farm fields. To see how this...
Sen. Udall Joins Citizens From Across U.S. to Denounce EPA Delay on TCE Bans
Johnson & Johnson Will Give Consumers More Information About Fragrance Ingredients
Today Johnson & Johnson, one of the largest multinational manufacturers of consumer packaged goods, announced a new transparency initiative that will provide additional details on fragrance chemicals...
Scott Pruitt Cooks the Books on Toxic Chemical Evaluations, Including Asbestos
EWG Seeks USDA Records on $12 Billion Payout for Farmers Hit by Trump’s Trade War
The Environmental Working Group has petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture for all records concerning its decision to pay up to $12 billion to farmers harmed by retaliatory tariffs levied on U...
EPA Watchdog Slams Agency’s Failure to Address Asbestos in U.S. Schools
The Environmental Protection Agency has failed to take the required and necessary steps under federal law to protect children from the dangers of asbestos exposure in the nation's public and private...
Congress Poised to Act to Reduce Major Source of PFAS Chemicals in Drinking Water
Congressional leaders included a provision in legislation that will give commercial airports the option to switch to firefighting foams that do not include the highly toxic fluorinated chemicals known...
Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water
EWG Petitions USDA for Records on Payments to Farmers Hit by Trump’s Trade War
Environmental Working Group is seeking disclosure of details on the taxpayer-funded payments to farmers through President Trump's $12 billion bailout for growers impacted by the president's trade war.
With New Laws, California Leads the Nation in Protecting Kids from Lead Exposure
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law three landmark proposals to protect California's children from exposure to lead.
After Axing Key Science Office, Trump Puts Ex-Koch Exec in Charge of Research at EPA
The Trump administration has tapped a longtime chemical and fossil fuel industry executive, who most recently worked for the ultraconservative Koch brothers, to head the scientific research arm of the...
