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Obama Administration Fails to Protect Public from Toxic Coal Ash
The White House today caved to industry pressure and backpedaled on the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 proposal to regulate coal ash – the toxic material that piles up in enormous quantities...
USDA Takes Important Step Towards Protecting Environment, Wildlife
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's decision to pay for more than 100 conservation projects nationwide is an important step toward restoring water quality and protecting wildlife habitat, EWG said in...
Renewable Fuels Goals In Climate Bills Threaten Millions of Acres of Forest
Dirt Cheap: America's Lands in Speculators' Hands
Congressional Subcommittee Criticizes USDA Civil Rights Settlement
High Levels of Toxic Fire Retardants Found in House Dust
Budget Proposal Would Reform Broken Crop Insurance Program
The Obama administration's fiscal year 2016 budget proposal contains two common-sense reforms to the broken federal crop insurance program that would save taxpayers billions of dollars and protect our...
Stuck in the Sand
Government Advisory Report Gives “Shocking” Advice on Seafood Consumption
Environmental Working Group and Mercury Policy Project strongly disagree with a federal scientific panel's recommendation, made public last week, that federal agencies stop warning pregnant women to...
EWG Welcomes Boxer-Markey Bill To Fix Badly Broken Chemical Safety Law
Legislation introduced today by Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Edward Markey, D-Mass., to fix the nation's badly broken and outdated chemical safety law would be a major step in ensuring that...
House TSCA Proposal “Falls Far Short” on Public Health Protections
A draft legislative proposal to fix the failed federal chemicals law put forth by Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) and Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) is a slight improvement over the Udall-Vitter plan introduced in...
House TSCA Update Fails to Protect Public Health
EWG opposes the draft legislation put forth by U.S. Reps. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) and Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) to update the federal Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. The proposal will not keep the...
EWG Applauds Rep. DeLauro’s Bill to Protect Americans from Arsenic in Rice
EWG applauds Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Conn., for her commitment to protect public health from the worrisome amounts of inorganic arsenic in rice and popular rice-based processed foods.
EWG Releases New Consumer Tool to Help People Make Smarter Seafood Choices
The Environmental Working Group published a new shopping tool and seafood calculator today to help people buy seafood lower in mercury, higher in omega-3 fatty acids and sustainably produced.
House TSCA Bill Won’t Ensure Safety of Everyday Chemicals
The legislative proposal issued today by the House Energy and Commerce Committee falls short of what's necessary to update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 to ensure that everyday chemicals...
One Year Later: Iowa’s Battered Soil and Streams Still Unprotected
A new survey of Iowa farmland finds that “ephemeral gullies” are still ravaging many crop fields despite a few welcome signs of improvement compared to a year ago. Unprotected fields were once again...
EPA Plan To Reduce Corn Ethanol Mandate Would Cut Carbon Emissions
A proposal now being considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to cut the amount of corn ethanol required in gasoline would lower greenhouse gas emissions by 3 million metric tons...
Kids’ Cereals Pack 40 Percent More Sugar
Eating a bowl of kids' cereal every day would add up to eating 10 pounds of sugar a year, according to a new Environmental Working Group analysis of more than 1,500 cereals, including 181 marketed for...
EWG Issues Guide to Men’s Environmental Health
Toxic substances in drinking water, food, food packaging and personal care products, as well as exposure to the sun's harmful UV rays, have all been linked to serious health problems that affect many...
Federal Government’s Advice on Seafood Consumption Inconsistent and Dangerous
People who follow the Obama administration's guidelines on eating seafood could consume dangerous amounts of mercury, a potent neurotoxin, or too few essential omega-3 fatty acids, according to a new...
FDA Orders Three-Year Phase-Out of Artificial Trans Fat Source
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered food processors to stop using partially hydrogenated oils, a major source of artificial trans fats blamed for 7,000 deaths and 20,000 heart attacks in...
Half a Million People Oppose Dow’s Toxic Herbicide Mix
More than 500,000 people have submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urging it to reject an application to market a new toxic herbicide called Enlist Duo, a mix of 2,4-D and...
EPA Seeks To Expand Use of Toxic Pesticide 2,4-D
A plan under consideration by the Obama administration would result in at least a three-fold increase in use of the toxic herbicide 2,4-D on American corn and soybean fields. The ubiquitous crop...
EWG’s statement on House Consideration of GMO Labeling Bill
EWG President Ken Cook issued the following statement today in response to the House's consideration of the Roberts-Stabenow GMO labeling bill the House is expected to take up this week.
