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EWG News Roundup (9/3): Landmark Public Health Bills Pass Calif. Legislature, Duke Energy’s $11.6 Billion Failures and More
EWG News Roundup (9/3): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG News Roundup (9/11): PFAS Discharges Near Schools, Tracking Farm Pollution in Our Drinking Water and More
EWG News Roundup (9/11): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG News Roundup (9/25): EWG Calls for CDC Director To Resign, Farmer Bailout and Covid-19 Payments Flowing to Rich Farmers and More
EWG News Roundup (9/25): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
A Neighbor’s Plea to Potato Giant: ‘You’re going to have casualties’
Mike Tauber, a plumber by trade, grew up and now lives on the outskirts of Hackensack, a town of 300 located within 10 miles of 127 lakes in north central Minnesota's Cass County.
Are Chemical Companies Hiding Behind "Confidential Business Information?"
A chemical associated with dozens of popular consumer products has proven to be surprisingly toxic and pervasive. In response, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is conducting the most...
Aggressive and illegal damage control efforts
A routine-seeming government meeting this Friday marks the public debut of what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says is one of the most sweeping regulatory inquiries it has ever mounted...
New York State: 85 chemicals to avoid
When someone with $8 billion a year in purchasing power tells the world what they don't want, marketers and manufacturers pay attention.
Why Are DuPont and Chemours Still Discharging the Most Notorious ‘Forever Chemical’?
The Big Bang of the nationwide “forever chemicals” crisis was the revelation in 2001 that PFOA, a toxic compound used to make Teflon, had contaminated the drinking water for 70,000 people near a...
The Many Hazards of Toxic Algae Outbreaks
This Fourth of July, Watch Out for Toxic Algae Blooms in Lakes
After the Pandemic, Kentucky Can Rebuild the Economy and Create Jobs by Investing in Clean Energy
The coronavirus pandemic will leave in its wake an urgent need to rebuild state economies. In Kentucky, building out the state's huge potential for wind and solar power can play a major role – but...
As Pandemic Rages, Federal Nuclear Regulators Put Keeping Reactors Running Ahead of Public Health and Safety
The federal government's toothless nuclear “watchdog” has historically shown more concern for keeping dangerous aging reactors running than for Americans' safety from a nuclear accident. So how is the...
EWG News Roundup (6/12): Landmark California Cosmetics Bill Clears Hurdle, COVID-19 Afflicts Food Processors and More
EWG News Roundup (6/12): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Trump’s Energy Regulators Are Undercutting Growth of Renewables
Federal regulators' rule changes to prop up coal and natural gas power plants could severely disrupt progress toward a clean, renewable energy future – and cost 65 million mid-Atlantic and Midwest...
Good, Bad and Truly Awful: Top Environmental Stories of 2011
More Good Sunscreens to Choose From this Summer
Food and Health Luminaries, Public Interest Groups Demand Healthy Food and Farm Bill
Seventy leading chefs, authors, food policy experts, nutritionists, CEOs, and environment and health organizations sent an open letter to Members of Congress today urging lawmakers to reinvest federal...
Chemical in Food Packaging, Fabric Coatings Linked to Cancer
An independent scientific panel approved by the DuPont company as part of a class action lawsuit has linked an industrial chemical known as C-8 or PFOA to kidney and testicular cancer in humans.
California Aims To Cut Rocket Fuel Pollution in Drinking Water
California environmental officials have issued a draft public health goal for drinking water polluted with perchlorate, a toxic rocket fuel chemical that is six times lower than the current legal...
NY County Bans BPA-Laced Register Receipts
New York's Suffolk County will soon ban retailers from issuing register receipts that contain the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A or BPA.
Calif. Regulators: “Non-Toxic” Nail Polishes Anything But
California state scientists have found that some nail polishes widely used in California salons are laced with high levels of three chemicals linked to birth defects, asthma and other health risks.
EWG on the election
In the wake of the 2012 election, Environmental Working Group has issued the following statements on three key issues central to EWG's mission: Federal farm policy, natural gas extraction that...