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EWG Welcomes Boxer-Markey Bill To Fix Badly Broken Chemical Safety Law

Legislation introduced today by Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Edward Markey, D-Mass., to fix the nation's badly broken and outdated chemical safety law would be a major step in ensuring that...

White House Should Make Water Conservation a National Priority

A detailed executive order making water a major national priority and moving the nation to a clean energy future is being submitted today to the White House for the consideration of President Obama.

Health, Consumer Groups Call for New Cell Phone Radiation Standards

Citing the soaring number of wireless devices in the hands of children, long-standing flaws in federal cell phone radiation standards and new science raising questions about cell phone safety, 12...

White House Bows to Chemical Companies

At the behest of the chemical industry, the Obama administration today backed off its effort to regulate a handful of widely used and highly toxic substances found in many consumer goods.

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PFC Dictionary

PFOA is used to make PTFE, the Teflon in pans. However, scientific evidence points to fluorotelomers as the main source of the PFOA and other perfluorinated chemicals in Americans' blood. That fluorotelomers on coated paper food packaging break down into PFOA and other chemicals is a separate problem from PTFE and cookware. This source of PFOA is one that DuPont cannot control by reducing

Farm Bill Conservation Programs Must Do More to Protect California Water

Hundreds of millions of conservation dollars in the federal farm bill should be used far more effectively to address widespread water pollution problems in California, according to a new analysis...

Cell Phone Radiation Varies By Wireless Carrier

In recent years, a series of studies have shown that a consumer's choice of wireless carrier may be more important than the cell phone itself in determining how much radiation will reach the user...

Shopping For Cosmetics? Take EWG’s Skin Deep App

Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep App is here! EWG's popular online consumer guide to more than 78,000 personal care products is now available as an App for the iPhone and Android.

Bill To Repeal Corn Ethanol Mandate Is a Welcome Step

Bipartisan legislation introduced today that would repeal the federal requirement to blend corn ethanol into gasoline is a welcome step toward reform of the biofuels program known as the Renewable...

EU Officials Warn of Health Risks from Pesticides Common on U.S. Fruits and Vegetables

The decision by Europe's top food safety agency to call for new restrictions on two pesticides common on conventionally-grown U.S. produce because they “may affect the developing human nervous system”...

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Real MPG - Putting the Truth in Your Tank

The U.S. would have imported about 20 percent less foreign oil in 2005 if automakers met federal fuel efficiency or miles per gallon (MPG) standards based on real world driving conditions. That reduction is equivalent to more than 1.3 times the amount of oil imported from Saudi Arabia in 2005, or about two million barrels of oil per day. For consumers this translates into 33 billion gallons of

Investors Call For Food Companies to Stay out of Washington State GMO Battle

Companies that donated funds to oppose ballot initiatives to require the labeling of products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are facing new pressure from shareholders to stay out of...

Obama Speech Misfired on Ethanol, Ag Policy

President Barak Obama's call to “stop subsidizing yesterday's energy” in his State of the Union speech last night was welcome, but the President missed an opportunity to focus attention on the...

Corn and Cotton Clobber Poor Kids in Big Ag’s Secret Farm Bill

Details became public today of a farm bill proposal written in secret by the top leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture committees and sent this week to the Congressional “Super Committee.” As...

EWG Calls For Broader Reform on Chemical Safety

Environmental Working Group called today's release of draft risk assessments of five chemicals found in paint strippers, fire retardants, degreasers, fragrances and other consumer products a positive...

POLL: Water is High Priority for Bipartisan Majority of Americans

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans are not opposed to more domestic energy production, but they are unwilling to achieve it by sacrificing clean water, increased energy efficiency, and expanded wind and...

EWG Says Proposed NY State Fracking Rules Won't Assure Safety

The Environmental Working Group today submitted comments to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) on its revised draft regulations for high-volume hydraulic fracturing. EWG...

Europe Steps Up to Protect Babies from BPA

Bisphenol-A (BPA) will be banned from baby bottles come June of 2011, announced the European Union's executive commission on Thursday.

50 Groups Challenge Government Grant to Pro-Pesticide PR Campaign

OAKLAND, Calif. – More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials' award of a $180,000 taxpayer...

Pesticide Industry to Use Tax Dollars to Attack Critics

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The California Department of Food and Agriculture has awarded $180,000 in federal funds to finance an agribusiness-chemical industry plan to combat its critics – Environmental...

Arkansas Agribusiness Poised to Reap Millions Under White House-Backed Proposal

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Large agriculture interests across Arkansas are projected to receive more than $210 million in taxpayer dollars under a controversial disaster aid program conceived by Senate...

White House is Challenged on Plan to Fund “Disaster Aid” for Farmers

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, --Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook today wrote to the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) challenging the rationale for the White House's promise to...

EWG Stands By Its Vitamin A Sunscreen Warning

Washington, DC – Environmental Working Group's review of a commentary on the safety of retinyl palmitate in sunscreens, published August 6 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, has...

House TSCA Proposal “Falls Far Short” on Public Health Protections

A draft legislative proposal to fix the failed federal chemicals law put forth by Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) and Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) is a slight improvement over the Udall-Vitter plan introduced in...