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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Senate Adopts Common Sense Reform to Crop Insurance Subsidies
Environmental Working Group released this statement on the passage of the Coburn-Durbin amendment to reduce premium subsidies by 15 percent for farm businesses with adjusted gross incomes of more than...
FDA to Ban BPA from Infant Formula
The federal Food and Drug Administration has informed Rep. Edward M. Markey (D-MA) that it is beginning a process that could end the use of the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in infant...
Dog Food Comparison Shows High Fluoride Levels
Healthy Food, California Get Short Shrift in Farm Bill
EWG statement on Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012
Statement of Craig Cox, Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources of the Environmental Working Group, on the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012: “A farm bill that cuts...
Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay
Supermarkets Must Halt Use of Storage Racks Made with Toxic Flame Retardant Chemical
BPA Restriction a Step Closer with House Vote on Food Safety Bill
Dog Food Contaminated with Levels of Fluoride Above EPA's Legal Limit for Humans
EWG Launches Interactive News and Commentary Site on Toxic Chemicals Policy Reform
Cloud Over BPA Grows As Top Hormone Researchers Warn Of Health Threat
EWG Calls on Coca-Cola to Protect Customers from BPA
First-Ever Statewide Ban of BPA Adopted in Minnesota
California State Senator Pavley Introduces Legislation to Protect Babies and Toddlers from Toxic BPA Exposure
Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) has introduced legislation sponsored by Environmental Working Group (EWG) to reduce exposure of California's infants and toddlers to the toxic hormone disrupting...
NY State Admits Ignoring Threat to City’s Drinking Water
Lautenberg Assumes Powerful Committee Position With Oversight of Toxic Chemicals
Making a Difference
What the Chemical Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
It takes a lot of nerve to go up against the $3 trillion-a-year global chemical industry. Ask University of Missouri-Columbia scientists Frederick Vom Saal and Wade Welshons. They've been in the industry's crosshairs for more than a decade, since their experiments turned up the first hard evidence that miniscule amounts of bisphenol A (BPA), an artificial sex hormone and integral component of a
