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A Disaster Waiting To Happen…Forever

Plans for a permanent trust fund to compensate farmers and ranchers for weather-related losses will send even more agricultural subsidies to the very regions that already receive the lion's share. Based on their historical share of ad hoc disaster spending, of the twenty states represented on the Senate Finance Committee, just four stand to gain over half (55 percent) of the committee's allocation
Food & Water

EWG Press Release

The watchdog group that forced ABC News to admit it had fabricated laboratory tests for a story attacking organic food has called correspondent John's Stossel's on-air apology "an insult to the ABC...
Pesticides

Banned pesticide, others found on Washington State apples

Despite an August ban by the federal government on an apple pesticide, recent tests of State of Washington apples show dangerous levels of the bug killer and other agriculture chemicals on the fruit.
Energy

Do As We Say, Not As We Do: Utilities Preach Conservation, Cut Consumer Efficiency Programs

In the five years before electricity deregulation, California utilities cut funding in half for programs that save energy, save customers money, and help save the environment.
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

Toledo

Pollutants in rivers and other source waters throughout Ohio are contaminating drinking water statewide, a citizen monitoring project has found.
Toxic Chemicals
Food

News Release

Lack of basic environmental practices at major U.S.hospitals is resulting in serious pollution problems and contamination of major foods, including baby foods, a new study has found.
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Energy

Trump Rollback of Clean Power Plan Means More Childhood Asthma, Premature Deaths

President Trump's rollback of the Clean Power Plan is not just a foolish failure of leadership on climate change, but another attack on public health that will trigger more asthma attacks among...

Research

PBDEs - Fire Retardants in Dust

In the first nationwide tests for brominated fire retardants in house dust, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found unexpectedly high levels of these neurotoxic chemicals in every home sampled. The average level of brominated fire retardants measured in dust from nine homes was more than 4,600 parts per billion (ppb). A tenth sample, collected in a home where products with fire retardants were
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture

Days After Calif. Farmworkers Sickened by Pesticide Drift, EPA Delays Safety Rule

Last week the Trump administration decided to delay a rule meant to ensure that the most dangerous pesticides are applied safely. This came just days after farmworkers were made sick from exposure to...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

Nationally Recognized Integrative Health Expert Karen Malkin Joins EWG Board of Directors

Karen Malkin, a leading integrative health coach and lifestyle practitioner, has joined the EWG board of directors, further raising the group's profile as the nation's leading nonprofit research...

Midwest
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG: Trump’s Proposed Cuts to EPA, USDA Are ‘Nothing But Bad News’ For Farmers and Other Rural Americans

President Trump's proposed budget would slash vital programs at the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Agriculture that help farmers and rural communities reduce their exposure to farm...

Research

Obstruction of Justice

A new investigation by Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the National Black Farmers' Association (NBFA) finds that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) willfully obstructed justice by deliberately undermining the terms of a 1999 landmark civil rights settlement with African American farmers. As a result, the vast majority of African American farmers have been denied compensation
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: USDA Conservation Program for Sensitive Cropland Wastes Billions of Tax Dollars

A critical flaw in the Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program is not only its failure to provide lasting protection for environmentally sensitive land, but also its wasting of...
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Water

Trump's EPA Proposes Rule That Puts Drinking Water for 117 Million at Risk

The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans today to repeal the Clean Water Rule, advancing the Trump administration's agenda to give industry and agribusiness free rein to pollute the...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water
Food & Water

At 6 Months, Trump Lists Regulatory Rollbacks Harmful to Public Health

In his first six months, President Trump's legislative agenda has stalled in Congress. But through regulatory rollbacks, he is waging a slash-and-burn assault on public health and the environment.

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

Sen. Udall Offers Bill to Ban Pesticide Known to Harm Kids’ Brains

Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., introduced legislation today to ban a highly toxic and widely used pesticide that can harm children's brains and nervous systems, challenging the Trump administration's...

Research

Still Above The Law

Refineries, power plants and other large industrial facilities in California that violate clean air laws typically pay penalties lower than what an SUV driver may legally be fined for a smog violation, according to an investigation of enforcement records by Environmental Working Group (EWG).
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

EWG Report: Trump’s Pick to Protect Americans from Toxic Substances is Longtime Shill for Chemical Companies

A new EWG investigation underscores just how unfit Michael Dourson, President Trump's nominee for a top Environmental Protection Agency position, is for the job of safeguarding children and other...

Toxic Chemicals
Energy
Food & Water

Pruitt's EPA Agenda: Steak Dinners and Golf With Polluters, Little Time for Enviro Groups

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's schedule reveals a troublingly cozy relationship with top executives and lobbyists for big coal, mining, chemical and oil companies, but scorn for...

Toxic Chemicals
Water

Government Report Sheds New Light on Water Contamination at Camp Lejeune

A new report released today by federal health officials shows that the decades-long case of drinking water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina is one of the worst on...

Food & Water
Food
Food
Food

Apples Top EWG's Dirty Dozen

Apples top the Environmental Working Group's annual Dirty Dozen™ list of most pesticide-contaminated produce, followed by strawberries, grapes and celery. Other fresh fruits and vegetables on the new...

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics
Children’s Health
Sunscreen

EWG’s 2013 Guide to Sunscreens: What to Use, What to Lose

Ahead of the Memorial Day holiday, Environmental Working Group today released its 7th annual Sunscreen Guide rating the safety and efficacy of more than 1,400 sunscreens, lotions, lip products and...

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

Wave of Opposition to Senate Chemicals Bill Swells from Public Interest Groups, Legal Scholars

Dozens of public interest organizations and legal scholars today sent letters to Congressional leaders expressing their unified opposition to the industry-backed Chemical Safety Improvement Act...

Food & Water
Farming & Agriculture
Household & Consumer Products
Toxic Chemicals

EWG Establishes Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Technology and Digital Mobilization

In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Environmental Working Group, the nation's leading environmental health research and advocacy organization, has established its own “genius” award to honor...