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Supermarket Meat Still Superbugged, Federal Data Show

EWG’s most recent analysis of more than 47,000 federal government lab tests of bacteria on supermarket meat found an increase in the already high number of pork chops and ground beef contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Levels on ground turkey and chicken breasts remained high, but saw a slight decline. In the five years since our original analysis, “ Superbugs Invade American
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For decades, the department of defense knew firefighting foams with ‘forever chemicals’ were dangerous but continued their use

As far back as the 1970s, studies conducted by the Department of Defense showed that the firefighting foam used on military bases and ships known as aqueous film-forming foam, or AFFF, that contain the fluorinated chemicals now known as PFAS were toxic.
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Across U.S., Eruptions of Toxic Algae Plague Lakes, Threatening Drinking Water and Recreation

Microcystins are poisonous toxins that can form in blooms of blue-green algae. In recent years, algae blooms – actually microscopic bacteria called cyanobacteria – have erupted in hundreds of lakes nationwide, putting at risk Americans whose drinking water comes from those lakes, or who swim, ski or fish in them. If ingested, microcystins can cause adverse health effects in people and animals
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Pouring It On

Nitrate in drinking water at levels greater than the Federal standard of 10 parts per million (ppm) can cause methemoglobinemia, a potentially fatal condition in infants commonly known as blue-baby syndrome. According to Dr. Burton Kross, of the University of Iowa's Center For International Rural and Environmental Health, nitrate poisoning via drinking water contamination "certainly contributes to
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California

Calif. bill would ban ‘forever chemicals’ in products for children

State legislation that would ban the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS from a wide range of children’s products passed out of the California Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials...
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Freedom to Farm

The "Freedom to Farm" legislation, approved by a partisan vote of the House Agriculture Committee, will be taken up by the House of Representatives soon after it reconvenes on Tuesday, February 27. The Senate has already passed a version of the bill. In its current form, the "Freedom to Farm" bill will be one of the most generous Federal farm subsidy programs ever considered in the U.S. House of

EWG news roundup (4/9): Clean energy jobs on the horizon, key California bills advance past committee and more

EWG news roundup (4/9): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Consumer Guides

EWG's tips to avoid flame retardants

For decades, foam furniture, baby products and electronics have been loaded with needless flame retardants that migrate out of products and into our bodies. These chemicals have been linked to cancer and hormone disruption, as well as deficits in motor skills, attention and IQ in children. Though the most toxic ones have been phased out in the United States, they were replaced with poorly studied
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Deal Breaker

Since 1985, agricultural lawmakers have defended payment of more than $108 billion in federal subsidies to farmers by arguing that the payments help to protect the environment. In order to receive subsidies, farmers must abide by soil and wetlands protections. This "deal" between farmers and taxpayers would be broken by the "Conservation Consolidation and Regulatory Reform Act" (H.R. 2542). As
Asbestos

EWG Letter in Support of Asbestos Ban

Click to download PDF file October 10, 2007 The Honorable Patty Murray United States Senate - Washington Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Barbara Boxer Chair, Committee on Environment and Public...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

Oral testimony of Heather White on the regulation of new chemicals, protection of confidential business information, and innovation

Oral testimony of Heather White, Executive Director, Environmental Working Group before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Environment and the Ecomomy...

Farm Subsidies

TRIPS Agreement as an Instrument for Cross Retaliation and the WTO Rules

An alternative for Brazil in case of non-compliance by the USA in the appellate decision on the cotton suit Prepared by Maristela Basso and Edson Beas of the Institute for Trade and Development Rights...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

Testimony on S.697 before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

Testimony of Kenneth Cook on S. 697 before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Food & Water
Food

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.

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What You Don't Know Could Hurt You

Two years of independent scientific monitoring by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) detected an array of toxic pesticides drifting into the air Californians breathe -- the tip of a 100-million-pound iceberg of hazardous chemicals emitted statewide each year as a result of pesticide use.

Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics

Personal Care Products Safety Act Letter to Senate Leadership

Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced the Personal Care Products Safety Act, S.1014, which would modernize federal oversight of personal care products. The bill...

Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG Statement on Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture Nominee

Media reports indicate President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as his nominee for Secretary of Agriculture.

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

Target’s Push for Full Ingredient Disclosure Echoes Consumer Demand

Today's decision by Target to require full ingredient disclosure from its suppliers by 2020 is great news for consumers, said EWG President Ken Cook.

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

BREAKING: EPA Nominee Ordered to Release Industry Emails

An Oklahoma state judge today ordered Scott Pruitt, the state's attorney general and President Trump's nominee for EPA administrator, to release some 3,000 emails between his office and the fossil...

Toxic Chemicals
Energy
Food & Water

EWG: Trump’s EPA Budget Cuts Will Be Disaster for Clean Water, Air

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s massive cuts to the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency will cripple the agency’s ability to protect drinking water and air from polluters, and...

Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Testimony on Conservation Policy Under the Next Farm Bill

EWG's testimony for the record to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry of the House Committee on Agriculture.
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

Trump’s EPA Budget Cuts Will Hit Lower-Income Communities of Color Hardest

The Trump administration's plan to eliminate funding for environmental justice programs will increase the already outsized burden of toxic pollution borne by lower-income communities of color, EWG...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Black Farmers and EWG Urge Congress to Increase Farm Subsidy Transparency

The National Black Farmers Association and the Environmental Working Group called on leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture committees today to increase transparency in federal farm subsidy...

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The English Patients

For decades, U.S. and foreign pesticide manufacturers have been feeding their products to rats, rabbits, mice, and guinea pigs in thousands of controlled laboratory studies, all designed to satisfy government regulatory requirements for chemicals that kill weeds, insects, rodents and other pests. Studies on lab animals are still routinely conducted for pesticides today. But in recent years, in a