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EWG Calls on House to Embrace Real Chemical Policy Reform

The Chemical Safety Improvement Act proposed in the Senate “fails to protect public health and the environment and allows chemical companies to keep conducting business as usual, which is the reason...

California Releases Draft Fracking Rules

The California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources has today issued draft rules that will, for the first time ever, regulate all forms of oil and gas well drilling in the state, including...

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After Two Decades of Agricultural Disaster Aid A Chronic Dependency Takes Root

The $6.55 billion omnibus measure (The Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006, S. 3855)provides hundreds of millions of dollars for projects and programs completely unrelated to crop and livestock losses associated with drought and hurricanes. Among these extras, there is a subsidy bonus of $1.5 billion in "energy assistance" directed exclusively to subsidized crop farmers who collected over $22

Some BB and CC Creams Can Reduce Toxic Exposures

A new analysis by Environmental Working Group of 100 BB (beauty balm) and CC (color corrector or complexion corrector) creams concludes that they may expose users to fewer toxic chemicals than the...

EWG Testifies on Environmental Impacts of Corn Ethanol

The Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to lower the amount of corn ethanol in gasoline is an acknowledgement that the biofuel blending program known as the Renewable Fuel Standard “isn't...

Federal Crop Insurance Over-compensates Farmers and Insurance Companies

A new report commissioned by Environmental Working Group finds that the heavily subsidized crop insurance program over-compensated Corn Belt farmers by $7.8 billion during the 2012 drought and lays...

Big Food Lobbying Group Spends Millions to Keep Consumers in the Dark

Environmental Working Group (EWG) today called out the big food lobbying group, Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), for dropping an additional $5 million into a campaign to defeat a popular...

Government Should Help Poor, Not Rich

The Environmental Working Group joins other food, poverty and hunger groups calling for an increase in food stamp benefits.

Sunscreen or Sunscam?

Almost a year after consumer concerns pushed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to promise tougher sunscreen standards, an investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreen products finds that...

Surge in Uranium Mining Claims Spurs Concern for Drinking Water Safety

In response to the threat that surging mining claims along the Colorado pose to drinking water in Las Vegas, the General Manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), Patricia Mulroy, sent a...

EWG Warns Senate Over Rocket Fuel in Nation's Drinking Water

For almost 50 years, the federal government, defense contractors and the chemical industry have worked together to block public health protections against a component of rocket fuel that can disrupt...

Biofuels and Bad Weather: America’s Food-to-Fuel Gamble

With relentless rains, cold temperatures, and record floods pounding the Midwest, the nation's ill-conceived corn ethanol mandate appears headed into a perfect storm, helping to push food and feed...

Mining Threats to Grand Canyon and Crested Butte Halted

As pressure mounts to overhaul the antiquated 1872 Mining Law, two high-profile mining operations have come to a halt - one along the south rim of the Grand Canyon, and the other right above the...

Major Infant Bottled Water Company Provides Parents with Misleading & False Information About Benefits of Fluoridated Water

One of the nation's biggest infant bottle water companies – Nursery Water - is misleading parents with erroneous information on its website and advertising materials touting the safety and benefits of...

Government Report Focuses on Agriculture as 'Dead Zone' Culprit

Today the USGS released findings that show agricultural practices in 9 states contribute 75% of the nitrogen and phosphorous pollution to the “Dead Zone” in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Currently, the...

Chemical Exposures on the Job May Be Linked to Diseases in Nurses

A first ever national survey of nurses' exposures to chemicals, pharmaceuticals and radiation on the job suggests there are links between serious health problems such as cancer, asthma, miscarriages...

U.S. One-Year Olds Overexposed to Rocket Fuel Chemical

One of every 16 one-year-old children in the U.S. is exposed to the rocket fuel chemical perchlorate at levels above the government's safe dose, according to an Environmental Working Group analysis of...

Feinstein-Collins Bill Would Improve Cosmetics Safety

A bill introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, would help the federal Food and Drug Administration ensure that cosmetics and other personal care products are safer.

New Bill Marks Disgraceful Setback In the Fight For Chemical Safety

New legislation endorsed today by a Senate committee to update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 is a shameful victory for the chemical industry that wrote the underlying bill and has fought...

BPA Designation is a Huge Victory For Californians

The decision of a scientific advisory committee to add bisphenol A, or BPA, to California's Proposition 65 list of toxic chemicals is a huge victory in the fight to protect people from this harmful...

Food and Chemical Companies Spent Big in 2014 to Defeat GMO Labeling

Food and biotechnology companies spent $63.6 million in 2014 alone to oppose mandatory labeling of genetically modified food ingredients, or GMOs, according to a new analysis by EWG.

Claims that GMOs Will “Feed the World” Don’t Hold Up

A report released today by Environmental Working Group delivers a stinging rebuke to conventional agribusiness' argument that genetically modified crops are the answer to future global food shortages...

Government Gives Flawed Advice for Eating Fish, Ignores New Science

A federal advisory encouraging pregnant women, nursing mothers and children to eat more seafood fails to protect them from methylmercury exposure and guide them to better fish choices, according to a...

Revised Anti-Consumer “DARK Act” Doubles Down on Blocking State Labeling, Regulation of GMOs

A new draft of the “Deny Americans the Right to Know” (DARK) Act being circulated in the House of Representatives would not only preempt state laws that require labeling of food containing genetically...