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BPA

FDA Must Curb BPA

While other federal public health and environmental agencies have targeted the plastics ingredient bisphenol A (BPA) as a chemical of concern to human health, the Food and Drug Administration has...
Research

Bottled Water Quality Investigation

The bottled water industry promotes an image of purity, but comprehensive testing by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) reveals a surprising array of chemical contaminants in every bottled water brand analyzed, including toxic byproducts of chlorination in Walmart's Sam's Choice and Giant Supermarket's Acadia brands, at levels no different than routinely found in tap water. Several Sam's Choice
Energy
Midwest

Sound Science Trumps Special Interests In EPA Ethanol Blend Decision

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it would wait until mid-2010 to decide on whether to grant a waiver request that would allow for the use of up to 15 percent ethanol in...

Embracing New Media Tools to Protect Public Health and the Environment Earns EWG Top Web Honor

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is proud to announce that president and co-founder Ken Cook has been voted The Huffington Post's Ultimate Green Game Changer of 2009 for harnessing new media to...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

EWG Lauds Obama Pick for USDA’s No. 2 Job

Statement of Ken Cook President, Environmental Working Group Feburary 24, 2009 "President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack have done the public a great service by nominating Kathleen Merrigan...
Farming & Agriculture

State-by-State Conservation Cuts

WASHINGTON – September 22, 2008. Today, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released a follow up report to Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill’s Passage that details the...
Energy
Midwest

Domestic Fuels Protection Act Will Shift Cost to Consumers, Taxpayers

The Domestic Fuels Protection Act of 2012 (H.R. 4345) and its companion bill, the Domestic Fuels Act of 2012 (S.2264) would create a broad exemption from liability for a number of favored interests...
Chemical Policy
Cosmetics

Calif. Announces Brazilian Blowout Settlement

Environmental Working Group issued the following statement in response to the settlement between California and the manufacturer of the chemical hair treatment Brazilian Blowout:

Pesticides
Food
Food
Food

EWG Releases 2012 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce

EWG has released the eighth edition of its Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ with updated information on 45 popular fruits and vegetables and their total pesticide loads. EWG highlights the...

Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

Industry Study Used by Feds Hid Evidence of Rocket Fuel's Effects

A major investigation by The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif., reveals that an industry-funded study relied on by federal scientists to recommend a safe dose for perchlorate erroneously reported...
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies

EWG Cleaners Hall of Shame Reveals Hidden Hazards

EWG's Cleaners Hall of Shame unearths compelling evidence that common household cleaners, including some hyped as “safe” or “natural,” can inflict serious harm on unwary users.

Lead
Children’s Health

Study Documents How Shooting Ranges Poison Children; One of the Nation's Top Lead Polluters

The Violence Policy Center (VPC) and EWG release Poisonous Pastime: The Health Risks of Shooting Ranges and Lead to Children, Families and the Environment. The study documents how shooting ranges...
Phthalates
Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics
Children’s Health

Study Shows Infants Exposed to Reproductive Toxins from Shampoo, Lotion, and Powder

EWG's response to a study appearing today in the journal Pediatrics showing for the first time that infants are exposed to potent reproductive toxins called phthalates from everyday baby products...
Food & Water
Water

Metropolitan Water District Urged to Warn Customers of Fluoride Risks to Infant

Plans to add fluoride to Southern Californians' tap water this summer are raising concerns that parents may not know of the potential risks of using fluoridated water to mix infant formula.

EWG Names New Executive Director

Heather White has been named executive director of Environmental Working Group, the Washington-based nonprofit consumer advocacy and research organization announced today.

Research

Crying Wolf on Climate Change

Farm industry leaders and their supporters in Congress are trying to derail climate change legislation by insisting that the House-passed bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), will cause ruinous increases in the costs of production for farmers. This threat is so potentially devastating, they claim, that climate change legislation should be shelved or loaded up with concessions
Research

California’s Climate Change Policy Leaves Agriculture in the Dust

Climate change presents California agriculture with two major challenges: how to reduce its contribution to climate change while arming itself against the threats a warming planet poses to agricultural production.
Farming & Agriculture

House Agriculture Leaders To Cut Conservation, Protect Direct Payments

EWG strongly opposes a drought disaster package proposed by House agriculture committee leaders that would be paid for with damaging and unnecessary cuts to conservation programs.

Research

Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay

Without an ambitious effort to fairly but effectively regulate pollution coming from farm fields throughout the watershed, there is simply no chance that the Chesapeake Bay will recover. The time has come to solve the primary obstacle to cleaner water in the region's streams, rivers, and Bay: reliance on a failed voluntary approach to agricultural pollution and inadequate regulatory backstops.
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food
Food

Nation’s Top Chefs, Food and Nutrition Experts Denounce Flawed House Farm Bill

More than 60 leading chefs, authors, food and agriculture policy and nutrition experts, business leaders and environment and health organizations have sent an open letter to Capitol Hill objecting...

Conservation
Food

House Farm Bill: Bad for Taxpayers, Hungry Families, and the Environment

Environmental Working Group joined anti-hunger, public health, labor, and animal welfare groups at the National Press Club to voice deep concerns with the recently passed House Agriculture Committee...

Farm Subsidies

Taxpayers Paid $6.1 Million in Farm Subsidies to Members of Congress, Families

Environmental Working Group's latest update of the EWG farm subsidy database shows that 23 members of Congress, or their family members, benefitted from $6,140,634 in taxpayer-funded farm subsidy...

California

Drillers Got Inside Track on N.Y. Fracking Rules

New York regulators granted natural gas industry representatives exclusive access to shale gas drilling regulations as early as six weeks before they were made public, according to documents obtained...

Energy

One Million Americans to Fight Industry Efforts to Kill Clean Energy Agenda

Fed up with the undue influence of the energy companies, utilities, lobbyists and other interests that are making it impossible for Washington to move forward decisively in achieving America's clean...