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Watchdog coalition to hold hearing on Duke Energy’s dismal record confronting the climate emergency

The Duke Energy Accountability Coalition’s People’s Commission will convene its second hearing on May 4 to shine a light on Duke’s policies and practices that resist clean energy solutions and rely...

EWG Calls on EPA to Protect the Health of Americans and Set Standards for Pollutants in Tap Water

WASHINGTON - A wide range of pharmaceuticals that include antibiotics, sex hormones, and drugs used to treat epilepsy and depression, contaminate drinking water supplies of at least 41 million...

EPA Sets an Ominous Precedent

October 15, 2004 Michael Leavitt EPA Administrator Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Dear Administrator Leavitt: Environmental Working Group is deeply troubled to...

EWG Letter to Harvard President Bok

October 11, 2006 Derek Bok, J.D. President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Dear President Bok: I am writing to inform you of an apparent violation of federal rules by...

EWG Petitions CDC to Test for PFOA

Download letter and analysis as PDF December 6, 2002 Ms. Dorothy Sussman Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Environmental Health Division of Laboratory Sciences Mail Stop F...

EWG Statement on S. 796, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009

Environmental Working Group (EWG) commends Senator Jeff Bingaman on the introduction of the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009 and for his leadership on this important issue. This bill marks...

EWG Supports EPA's Decision to Suspend CHEERS

January 24, 2005 Stephen L. Johnson Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency 1102A USEPA Headquarters Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20460 Dear Deputy...

EWG to FDA, EPA: Expand Nano Investigations

EWG submits comments urging the FDA and EPA to take a closer look at nanomaterials, broaden their definition of these substances and fully assess the risks to public health.

EWG’s in-depth analysis of the Shimkus proposal’s critical flaws.

Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) recently authored the Chemicals in Commerce Act, a discussion draft of legislation purporting to reform our nation’s weak and outdated chemicals management law, the Toxic...

FDA Warns Cosmetics Industry to Follow Law on Untested Ingredients

FDA calls industry's bluff on product safety. Acting on a petition filed June 14, 2004 by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) [ view petition], on February 3, 2005 the Food and Drug Administration...

EWG’s Skin Deep® Database Adds Filter To Identify Products by Black-Owned Brands

WASHINGTON – Buying products from Black-owned beauty brands is a powerful way to support the Black community directly. To make finding their beauty products easier, including clean options, the...

Study: Almost All Fluorine Detected in Fire Stations’ Dust Is From Unknown ‘Forever Chemicals'

WASHINGTON – A new study heightens concerns about firefighters' exposure to the fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS: Nearly 99 percent of the fluorine found in tests of dust from inside fire...

Will Land O’Lakes/Microsoft ‘Carbon Bank’ Actually Cut Emissions?

Land O'Lakes touts its new agricultural carbon credits market as a “transformational” program rewarding farmers for adopting conservation practices while “incentivizing” corporations to reduce...

EWG Calls on EPA To Ban Use of Brain-Damaging Pesticide

The neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos should be banned for use immediately by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Working Group wrote in a public comment letter [link to letter] to...

EPA Takes First Step To Address Industrial Pollution From ‘Forever Chemicals’

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to propose a new rule, asking chemical companies to provide information on the production and discharge of the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, which...

Comments From 30 Organizations to the EPA on Interim Guidance on the Destruction and Disposal of PFAS Chemicals

The Environmental Working Group, along with more than 30 environmental and public health organizations, submitted comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s interim guidance on the destruction...

It’s Time To Protect Firefighters From Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’

Firefighters take enormous risks to protect us. Now it's time to protect them from the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.

‘Forever Chemicals’ Must Be Regulated as a Class

To protect the health of people, communities and the environment, the toxic fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS should not be regulated one by one but as a class, more than a dozen...

3 Things Parents Should Know About Toxic Heavy Metals in Baby Foods

Many popular baby food brands contain dangerous levels of mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic, according to a new investigation by a House of Representatives oversight committee. Exposure to these...

Research

Pesticides in Baby Food

To determine the extent of pesticide contamination of baby food, we tested eight foods (applesauce, garden vegetables or pea and carrot blend, green beans, peaches, pears, plums, squash and sweet potatoes) made by the three major baby food producers that account for 96 percent of all baby food sales -- Gerber, Heinz, and Beech-Nut. All samples were purchased at retail from grocery stores in three

Study: Additive found in Skittles and Starburst no longer considered safe

An additive used in Skittles, Starburst, Hostess’ Donettes and thousands of other foods should no longer be considered safe for human consumption, according to a new study from the European Union’s...

Do farmers need more federal welfare?

Every year, the American Farm Bureau Federation and other Big Ag lobby groups demand more federal subsidies for farmers. Before that happens this year, with the farm economy white-hot, it’s time to...

At the most contaminated military sites, little to no progress in cleaning up ‘forever chemicals’

The Pentagon has made almost no progress in cleaning up the military installations that are some of the most contaminated with the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, according to an EWG review...