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Chemical Policy
Cosmetics

Brazilian Blowout to Pay Workers, Customers

A class action settlement requiring the manufacturer of Brazilian Blowout, a popular chemical hair straightener to pay a small compensation to salon workers and customers who used its formaldehyde...

BPA
Cookware & Food Containers
Food

World's Largest Soup Maker to Remove BPA from Cans

Campbell's Soup, whose iconic red and white label is found in pantries across the country, says it will stop using the notorious chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA, in the linings of its cans.

California

109 Organizations Take Issue With Obama’s Support for Fracking

More than 100 organizations – including environmental, religious and public health groups – expressed concern about President Obama’s endorsement of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas drilling in his...
Midwest

New Ethanol Blend Puts Hundreds of Millions of Engine Warranties At Risk

The Environmental Protection Agency's decision today to pave the way for the sale of gasoline blended with up to 15 percent ethanol is likely to prove a nightmare for car owners who improperly fuel...
Farming & Agriculture

America’s Conservation Compact is Eroding Despite Farmers’ Support

A new research paper finds that most farmers support the long-standing conservation compact that has helped protect the rich soil and clean water that sustain food, farming and public health.

California

EPA: Fracking Linked to Groundwater Contamination in Wyoming

According to a report by the Associated Press, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has concluded the natural gas extraction process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, could be responsible...

Mercury
Energy

EPA Moves to Limit Mercury Emissions

The federal Environmental Protection Agency pressed ahead today in its effort to reduce Americans' exposure to hazardous chemicals, announcing a long-awaited new standard to reduce the amount of...

EWG: With Super Committee Dead, Ag Leaders Should Make Public Secret Farm Bill Plan

Late last week, the four top leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees finalized the details of their secret farm bill, slated to be part of the so-called Super Committee's deficit...

BPA
Chemical Policy
Regional Issues
California

BPA Banned in California Baby Bottles

California parents are cheering and letting out a sigh of relief with the news that Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation banning the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles...

Baby drinking from bottle
Chemical Policy
Cosmetics

FDA Steps Up Pressure on Brazilian Blowout

Environmental Working Group issued the following statement this afternoon in response to the federal Food and Drug Administration's warning to Brazilian Blowout that the company's product containing...

Chemical Policy
BPA

California Senate Approves BPA Ban for Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups

The California State Senate voted today to ban the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A from baby bottles and sippy cups sold in California.

Farming & Agriculture

New Legislation to Right the Wrongs of USDA Racial Discrimination

EWG and the National Black Farmers Association are pleased with the introduction of the Pigford Claims Remedy Act today. Introduced by Representatives Scott (D-VA) and Chabot (R-OH) and Senators...
Farm Subsidies

Study Finds Thousands Receive Farm Disaster Aid At Least Every Other Year for Over Two Decades

Pressure is building in Congress for pre-election enactment of a $6.55 billion farm disaster aid bill, by far the most expensive such measure in history.
Federal & State Energy Policy

Press Release - Enforcing Mileage Standards

The U.S. would reduce oil imports by 20 percent if auto companies met mileage standards using realistic driving tests according to a new analysis by Environmental Working Group (EWG).

EWG Urges Censure of 'Brockovich' Scientist

(WASHINGTON, July 18) — A scientific consultant whose firm fraudulently planted a study rebutting a link between chromium and cancer should be censured for violating toxicology's professional code of...
Farm Subsidies

Cook vs. Combest Debates?

Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook today challenged one the nation's most ardent and articulate defenders of status quo farm subsidy programs to a nationwide series of policy debates...
Research

Grand Canyon Threatened by Approval of Uranium Mining Activities

In an ominous move, the Forest Service has approved drilling for uranium at as many as 39 sites near the Grand Canyon's south rim, marking what may be the beginning of a rush to mine the radioactive mineral near the iconic National Park.
Federal & State Energy Policy

White House Ties Secure Yates' Drilling Rights to Sensitive N.M. Grasslands

For $2 an acre, the Bush Administration has given the rights to drill for oil and gas on New Mexico's Otero Mesa to a company whose White House connections were key to reversing earlier plans to...
Research

NIH to Review Flawed Report on Impacts of BPA Exposure

After a steady drumbeat of criticism from EWG, Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), outside scientists and mainstream media, the National Institute's of Health's (NIH) National Toxicology Program (NTP) has agreed to launch a top-down investigation into the Center for the Evaluation of Risk to Human Reproduction's (CERHR) flawed, industry-friendly report on the health impacts of the dangerous toxic
Arsenic
Household & Consumer Products

Government Official Warns of Arsenic Wood Cancer Risk

Commissioner Thomas Moore of the federal government's Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) shares Environmental Working Group's (EWG) concern that children playing on decks, play sets and other...
Chemical Policy
Asbestos

New Analysis Shows Growing Number of Asbestos Related Deaths in Texas

Texas legislature is poised to consider legislation limiting the ability of the sick or dying to get their medical bills covered by the asbestos companies.
Chemical Policy
Asbestos

Senate Asbestos Bailout Bill Helps Libby Mine Workers, Neighbors, Denies Help to Workers Who Processed Libby Ore

Newly uncovered documents from W.R. Grace show that the company exposed workers in at least 14 of its insulation factories around the country to lethal asbestos dust at levels above those in the now...
Energy

DOI Data Suggest Norton Announcement Less Than It Seems

"Gale Norton should be honest when she brags to the public she is 'protecting' something. Gale Norton wasn't, according to records from her own department," said EWG Analyst Dusty Horwitt.
Toxic Chemicals
Flame Retardants

TOXIC FIRE RETARDANT FOUND IN SAMPLES OF CALIFORNIA MILK

In the first nationwide tests for chemical fire retardants in the breast milk of American mothers, Environmental Working Group (EWG) found unexpectedly high levels of these little-known thyroid toxins...