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Thyroid Threat

A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that more than one third of American women are deficient in iodine, and that for these women, exposure to the rocket fuel contaminant perchlorate in food or water can cause a significant and dose dependent decline in thyroid hormone levels. Low thyroid levels, or subclinical hypothyroidism, is an established risk factor
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

EWG Seeks Records on White House, EPA Retreat on Chemical Safety Initiatives

he Environmental Working Group has submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to the White House to learn whether industry improperly influenced the government's decision to drop two proposals to...

Food & Water
Food

Top Grocery Lobby to Reveal Companies Financing Anti-Labeling Campaign

The Grocery Manufacturers Association did the right thing in deciding to disclose which of its member companies are financing the campaign against the genetically engineered (GE) labeling ballot...

Conservation

Opposition via the Internet

On June 17, the Corps formally proposed to extend some wetlands permits for 5 years, and to add several new permits with the potential for significant environmental damage. One of the new permits...
Farm Subsidies

Budget Amendment Threatens New Farm Supports

The new "Freedom to Farm" subsidy contract payments that many farmers believe are guaranteed for the next 7 years will probably be slashed if Congress approves a balanced budget amendment to the U.S...
Conservation

Clinton Clean Air Proposal An Important Step Forward

The Clinton Administration's new clean air proposal is an important move forward, but must be strengthened substantially to save the lives of some 40,000 Americans who will continue die prematurely...
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Cookware & Food Containers

Bush Handed DuPont Goodbye Gift Over Toxic Teflon Chemical

In the last weeks of the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly handed DuPont Co. a three-year extension to complete tests mandated by a 2005 legal settlement on a...
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Cookware & Food Containers

Independent Science Panel to EPA: Teflon Chemical is 'Likely' Human Carcinogen

A panel comprised mostly of independent scientists advising the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found today that DuPont's Teflon chemical, PFOA, is a "likely human carcinogen."
Research

Chlorine Pollutants High in DC Tap Water

In spite of the best efforts of the Washington Aqueduct to provide quality drinking water to the District of Columbia, tap water tests from May, 2007 revealed toxic by-products of the chemicals used to purify Potomac River water, at levels above annual federal health limits. These results illustrate the tremendous difficulties that water utilities face when trying to provide tap water that is free
Energy
Midwest

Court Ruling Overturning Biofuels Mandate Is Impetus for Reform

A U.S. Appeals Court decision to throw out the 2012 federal mandate requiring refiners to blend cellulosic ethanol into the domestic gasoline supply should be wake-up call to Congress that the nation...

Farming & Agriculture

EWG lauds Reid, Stabenow for advancing American Family Economic Protection Act

Environmental Working Group vice president for government affairs Scott Faber released the following statement on the American Family Economic Protection Act.

Energy
California
Federal & State Energy Policy

Groups Urge Probe of EPA Actions in Texas Water Contamination Case

More than 80 organizations from 12 states and a New York state senator today called on the inspector general of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to investigate a decision to drop legal action...

Energy
Federal & State Energy Policy
Water

Drinking Water Threatened by Toxic Natural Gas and Oil Drilling Chemicals

Companies drilling for natural gas and oil are skirting federal law and injecting toxic petroleum distillates into thousands of wells, threatening drinking water supplies from New York to Wyoming...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

California Tightens Smog Standards

The California Air Resources Board today adopted the nation's most stringent smog standards, which state scientists say could avert hundreds of premature deaths, thousands of hospital trips and more...
Conservation

Gas Tax Spending Steers Commuters' Taxes Away from Congested Areas

A new investigation of spending patterns by state departments of transportation finds that commuters' federal gas taxes are being diverted to far-flung rural and exurban areas within their states...
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Cookware & Food Containers

EPA Tilts Risk Document on Teflon Chemical in DuPont's Favor

EWG today criticized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) draft risk assessment on the toxic Teflon chemical, PFOA, as a post-election tilt toward DuPont. The Agency ignored its own science panel...
Toxic Chemicals
Federal & State Energy Policy

Senate Disappoints on Keystone XL Vote

The U.S. Senate today advanced a Keystone XL pipeline bill that puts corporate oil interests before the health of the public and the environment, EWG said in a statement.

Farm Subsidies

EWG Welcomes Bill to Cap Crop Insurance Premium Subsidies

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate today would limit the amount of federal crop insurance premium subsidies a grower can receive, saving billions of dollars while affecting very few...

Midwest
Midwest
Midwest
Midwest

New Report Shows Iowans Could Have Cleaner Water With One Simple Rule

Requiring farmers to plant 50-foot wide grass strips, or buffers, between cropland and streams would jumpstart progress toward cleaning Iowa's dirty water while affecting only a handful of growers and...

Research

Double Dippers

Some of America's richest agribusinesses are double dipping from U.S. taxpayers' pockets at a rate of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) computer investigation of federal crop and water subsidies to California's Central Valley Project (CVP).

EWG’s White Named Top 100 Women to Watch in Wellness

EWG's Executive Director Heather White has been named one of the top 100 Women To Watch In Wellness by popular health and wellness website MindBodyGreen.

Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

Are Possible Violations of Federal Law Enough to Finally Send Scott Pruitt Packing?

The federal government's top ethics official is raising serious questions about Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's potential violations of law. His string of scandals could topple...

Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

OUT NOW: EWG’s 2018 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™

All adults and children should eat more fruits and vegetables, whether they are organic or conventionally grown. With EWG's 2018 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce™, you can choose healthy...

Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

Environment Committee Chair Seeks Answers from Pruitt Over Multiple Email Addresses

The chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is seeking details about Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt use of four different agency email addresses.