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Despite Claims of Reform, Subsidy Band Marches On

June 23, 2011

As the Senate Agriculture Committee meets today to discuss accountability and spending on farm programs, new data washes away the gloss of reform used by the subsidy lobby and its champions in...

California

EPA: Water Wells Contaminated Near Fracking Blowout Site

June 7, 2011

Underscoring the risks to drinking water supplies of hydraulic fracturing, three water samples collected from private wells following a blowout at a Chesapeake Energy Corp. natural gas drilling site...

Energy

Midwest

EPA Misfires on New Misfueling Rule

June 21, 2011

For three decades, the politically well-connected corn ethanol industry has been able to harness government support without much thought to the fuel's harm to health, the environment and engines...

Federal & State Energy Policy

Just In Time for the 4th of July: EWG Adds New Products to Sunscreen Guide

June 28, 2011

Since releasing the 2011 Sunscreen Guide in May, Environmental Working Group has received dozens of requests from companies and supporters alike asking to add more of their favorite products to the...

Chemical Policy

Lautenberg Advances Bill to Protect Kids from Toxic Chemicals

April 14, 2011

In 2005, Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.) was the first lawmaker ever to offer a road map for fixing the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, which has allowed tens of thousands of toxic substances...

California

Administration Stacks Panel With Big Oil and Gas

May 10, 2011

The Obama administration panel named May 5 to study hydraulic fracturing, a natural gas drilling technique that injects thousands of gallons of chemical-laced water into the ground, is dominated by...

Chemical Policy

Is the Chemical Industry Looking for Chemicals in People?

June 2, 2011

Only a scant number of chemical industry studies documenting Americans' exposures to industrial chemicals appear on public databases maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and even...

Obama Would Cut Subsidies to Wealthy Farms

February 14, 2011

The Obama administration's proposed 2012 federal budget released today targets several wasteful agriculture programs, including cutting $4.25 billion over 10 years from subsidies to large farm...

EWG News Release

February 10, 2005

The Bush Administration is paying some of the biggest and richest agribusinesses in America $17 million for cutbacks in their taxpayer-subsidized water supply. But an Environmental Working Group (EWG)...

Arsenic

EPA Reverses Course: Arsenic-Treated Playground Equipment Poses Unacceptable Lifetime Cancer Risk to Children

November 13, 2003

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released the most comprehensive study to date of the health risks of arsenic-treated wood, which has been used for decades to build decks, playsets...

CPSC Denies Petition to Ban CCA Pressure-Treated Wood Playground Equipment

November 1, 2003

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted unanimously today to deny a petition to ban the use of chromated copper arsenate (CCA) pressuretreated wood in playground equipment.

Groups Want Whitman to Explain How Monsanto Escaped Crackdown for Decades of PCB Pollution

June 18, 2003

Public interest groups today called on US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christine Todd Whitman to explain a key change in a controversial and highly unusual pollution cleanup...

Chemical Policy

Perchlorate

Capps Bill Would Curb Toxic Perchlorate Contamination Chemical Found in California Water, Agriculture Products

April 28, 2003

Congresswoman Lois Capps today introduced legislation to protect Americans from perchlorate, a chemical contaminate that has seeped into underground water supplies and has recently been detected in...

Ford Caught Lying - Again

March 12, 2003

Ford has been the subject of some strong charges by our organization about its veracity with customers and the public about the safety of its Bronco II-Explorer model line.

Food & Water

EWG's Response to Glacier's Letter

December 10, 2002

On Dec. 10 the Environmental Working Group and the Environmental Law Foundation released the results of tests on water purchased from 274 Glacier vending machines in California. Analysis of the...

Mercury

EWG Files Legal Challenge to FDA Mercury Health Advisory

December 11, 2002

Today EWG filed a legal challenge seeking to block the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from issuing a weak proposed health advisory for mercury in seafood. New analyses contained within the filing...

Arsenic Lobbyists Coming Out of Woodwork

January 22, 2003

For decades, they made the world safe for skyrocketing sales of arsenic-soaked wood, and dangerous for the millions of Americans who were exposed to the material, and are still exposed today. But...

Conservation

DIRTY AIR A CAUSE OF DEATH FOR MORE THAN 9,300 CALIFORNIANS

May 16, 2002

Pollution from airborne soot and dust causes or contributes to the deaths of more Californians than traffic accidents, homicide and AIDS combined, according to a new report released today by...

Research

Washington Post Wrong

October 23, 2007

On Oct. 4, The Washington Post had a scoop: According to a front-page story by Sally Squires, a new report by “top scientists from private groups and federal agencies,” advised pregnant and breast-feeding women to eat at least 12 ounces of fish a week “to ensure their babies' optimal brain development.”

Arsenic

News Release

November 8, 2001

Nationwide sampling in 13 metropolitan areas found harmful levels of cancer-causing arsenic on the surface of "pressure-treated" wood purchased at Home Depot and Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse...

News Release

June 26, 2001

Congress is expected to approve an additional $5.5 billion in emergency farm aid today, the fourth straight year it has been forced to supplement a 1996 law that was intended to end farm supports. But...