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Energy

The New Gold Rush: Surge in Mining Claims Threatens California’s National Parks & Wilderness

A modern-day Gold Rush is threatening California's national parks, national monuments, wilderness and roadless areas.
Asbestos

EWG Applauds Senate Passage of Landmark Legislation Banning Asbestos

Environmental Working Group (EWG) Executive Director Richard Wiles issued the following statement thanking United States Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) after the Senate...
Cosmetics

Investigation Finds More Than 400 Cosmetic Products on U.S. Shelves Unsafe When Used as Directed

As FDA officials and the cosmetics industry prepared to huddle behind closed doors without input from outside groups to discuss “regulatory obstacles” between countries, Environmental Working Group...
Research

Polluted Pets

In the first study of its kind, Environmental Working Group found that American pets are polluted with even higher levels of many of the same synthetic industrial chemicals that researchers have recently found in people, including newborns.
BPA

Expert Panel Warns of Health Risks from BPA

The Chapel Hill consensus statement on BPA released today underscores, by way of contrast, how hopeless and corrupt the ongoing review of BPA by the NIH Center for The Evaluation of Risks to Human...
Toxic Chemicals

EWG Calls for Evidence Supporting FDA's Sweeping Assurances of Melamine

In letter sent today to the new point person in charge of food safety at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook called on the agency to back up...
Farm Subsidies

USDA Report: Corn Plantings May be Highest Since World War II

It's one thing to have an ethanol boom in the Corn Belt. An ethanol blow-out is another thing altogether.
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Farm Pollution Knocks Chesapeake Bay Out of Balance

For more than thirty years, contamination from high-intensity farming has been adding to the pollution that fouls Chesapeake Bay, one of America's most storied waterways. A new report from the...
Food & Water
Food

Congress Passes Child Nutrition Act

A major public health victory on behalf of the nation's neediest children is about to be realized when President Obama signs into law legislation that will provide healthy school lunches to millions.
Chemical Policy

Holidays Come Early for California Chemical Makers

In September 2008, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated the signing of two bills that, he said, would propel “California to the forefront of the nation and the world with the most comprehensive Green...
Food & Water
Food

Food Safety Bill will Save the Lives of Thousands

At least 5,000 Americans – most of them young children, the elderly and the sick – die every year from eating contaminated food, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
Research

Toxic Plastics Chemical in Infant Formula

Laboratory tests of canned infant formula conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a certified commercial laboratory reveal that a plastics chemical called bisphenol A (BPA) leaches from metal can linings into formula. According to a new EWG analyses, the amount of BPA ingested by some bottle-fed infants exceeds the doses that caused serious adverse effects in animal studies.

Federal Funds for Bicycles Saving Lives

A pending congressional re-write of transportation policy would cut bicycle funding by as much as 50 percent just as a new report documents that between 1986 and 1995 an average of 840 cyclists were...
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Cookware & Food Containers

W. Virginia, Ohio Families Face Toxic Teflon Chemical Risk

A March 10 agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. over drinking water contamination around the company's Parkersburg, WV, plant leaves people...
Research

Short Crop

Black farmers receive between one-third to one-sixth of the benefits under major federal crop subsidy programs that other farmers receive, and the “subsidy gap” has widened over the past decade. The gap will become more inequitable if a bill reported by the House Agriculture Committee passes the House later this week, researchers said.

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Cookware & Food Containers
Cookware & Food Containers
Food

Fast Food Companies Asked to Disclose Use of Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging

EWG asks the CEOs of nine major fast food corporations to disclose the use of toxic nonstick chemicals in their packaging.
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
PFAS Chemicals
Cookware & Food Containers
Cookware & Food Containers
Food & Water

EWG TSCA 8(e) Petition: EPA probes DuPont birth defect study

EWG alleged today that the DuPont chemical company has violated federal law by withholding from the government for the last 22 years a company study that detected a toxic, Teflon-related chemical in...
Energy
Midwest

Time to Reform Environmentally Damaging Corn Ethanol Mandate

Environmental Working Group (EWG) joined a diverse group of stakeholders today to call on Congress to reform the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) because of its negative impact on the environment...

Toxic Chemicals
Flame Retardants
Regional Issues
California

California to Overhaul Fire Retardant Rules

California Governor Jerry Brown today proposed to end the widespread use of highly toxic fire retardant chemicals in foam furniture sold in the state.

Energy
Midwest

Senators Seek to Block Higher Ethanol Blend

Environmental Working Group today welcomed the introduction of legislation to block the use of gasoline containing 15 percent corn ethanol by U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and David Vitter (R-La.)...

Research

Down the Drain

EWG and East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) researchers analyzed samples of wastewater from residential, commercial, and industrial sites in the San Francisco Bay Area. 18 of 19 wastewater samples examined contained at least 1 of 3 unregulated, widely-used hormone disruptors – phthalates, bisphenol A, and triclosan; 2 samples contained all 3 substances. Despite sophisticated wastewater
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

EWG's New Online Water Filter Buying Guide

The Environmental Working Group has released its new online water filter buying guide with more options and new tips for consumers who want cleaner drinking water for themselves and their families.

Toxic Chemicals
Energy
Food & Water

EWG Applauds Nomination of Gina McCarthy to Head EPA

President Obama's selection of Gina McCarthy as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency “is a bold choice that reflects the president's strong commitment to protecting public health and...

BPA

CA House Votes BPA Ban in Kids' Food Wares

Oakland, Ca – The health of California's children was the watchword today in Sacramento as the State Assembly voted 43-31 to ban the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from food and...