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EWG to Rep. Bass: Where Is Your Plan For MTBE Relief?

When Rep. Charles Bass (R-NH) voted in favor of lawsuit immunity for drinking water polluters—and against the interests of his own constituents and thousands of communities nationwide — he claimed he...

EWG Letter to EPA

Download PDF file. July 7, 2008 Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P) Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. Washington, DC 20460-0001 Regarding...

EWG Letter to EPA Administrator Johnson Regarding Perchlorate

Download the PDF of this letter. March 29, 2007 Stephen L. Johnson Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20460 Dear...

Trump’s Proposed Budget Cuts Disastrous for Public Health, Clean Energy Investments

President Trump's 2021 budget proposal, released today, seeks deep cuts in funding for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and other agencies, and shows the administration's...

Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act Would Ban Cosmetics With Chemicals Linked to Cancer or Reproductive Harm

On Thursday the California Assembly reintroduced the Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act, A.B. 2762. If passed, the law would ban 12 toxic ingredients, such as mercury and formaldehyde, from the beauty and...

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Prime Suspects

Federal environmental laws were created through bipartisan efforts in the 1970s to toughen and standardize a patchwork of inconsistent state pollution control laws. The establishment of environmental standards across state lines produced a dramatic improvement in the nation's environment. Yet almost unnoticed during the 1990s, there was a fundamental shift in environmental law enforcement

Study: PFAS Act Similar to Known Cancer-Causing Chemicals

Scientists at the Environmental Working Group and Indiana University have for the first time conducted a review of 26 fluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, and found that all display at least one...

AspenClean Brings First EWG VERIFIED® Cleaners to Consumers

Today AspenClean announced its collection of nine cleaning products that meet the Environmental Working Group's rigorous criteria for health, ingredient disclosure and transparency. These are the...

PFAS Could Contaminate More Than 600 Military Installations, DOD Says

The Department of Defense has released new data showing that more than 600 military sites and surrounding communities could be contaminated with perfluorinated chemicals, or PFAS – far more...

FOIA Data: Tap Water at 28 Military Bases Tainted With ‘Forever Chemicals’ Above States’ Safety Standards

Drinking water at more than two dozen U.S. military installations is contaminated with toxic fluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, at levels that exceed the standards set or proposed by a number of states...

Trump Rollback of Auto Emissions Standards = 1 Billion More Tons of Air Pollution

Today the Trump administration is set to release a final rule rolling back auto fuel efficiency standards, which will let cars and light trucks emit 1 billion more tons, or more, of carbon pollution...

EWG: By Pulling Out of Paris Climate Pact, Trump Ignores 'Moral Responsibility'

By pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, President Trump will abdicate his responsibility as leader of the most powerful country in the world, to help fight the looming catastrophe of...

Trump’s Plan to Prop Up Coal and Nukes Would Drive Up Utility Bills

Millions of Americans could see their monthly electricity bills increase under the Trump administration's proposal to prop up the dying, dirty and dangerous coal and nuclear power industries, said EWG...

Research

An Ill Wind

More than 2.3 million pounds of the acutely toxic pesticide methyl bromide were applied near 455 public schools in California in 1998, according to state records of pesticide use analyzed by the Environmental Working Group. Methyl bromide, a volatile nerve gas, is a Category 1 acute toxin, the most hazardous classification of toxic chemicals, and causes birth defects and brain and nervous system

Picking Losers: Why Coal and Nuclear Interests Are Desperate For a Ratepayer Bailout

Without Energy Secretary Rick Perry's scheme to make utility customers buy more expensive electricity from aging, dirty and dangerous coal and nuclear u, utilities plan to close 75 coal and nuclear...

Clean Power Plan Hearing is Trump’s Latest Desperate Act to Save Dying Coal Industry

For the only public hearing on the proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan, the Trump administration picked a location where residents are sure to support the desperate attempt to save the dying coal...

Research

Pollution Pays

An analysis of federal enforcement records shows that large industrial polluters in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania are routinely breaking the law -- and getting away with it. Big water polluters are almost never fined for their violations, and when they are fined, the penalties are often too low to act as a deterrent to future pollution. For many big polluters, breaking clean water laws has

Historic PFAS Investments Proposed in House Spending Bills

Three spending bills proposed by the House will make historic investments to address the regulation and cleanup of the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS.

McConnell COVID-19 Relief Package Fails Hungry Families, Food and Farm Workers

The following is a statement from Scott Faber, EWG's senior vice president of government affairs, on the COVID-19 relief package released today by Senate Republicans.

EWG: Without Worker Protections, Trump’s Planned Order To Keep Meat Plants Open During Pandemic Could Be a Death Sentence

President Donald Trump signed an executive order today declaring meat-processing plants essential infrastructure and allowing the Agriculture Department to use the Defense Production Act to force them...

California Legislature Sends Landmark Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act to Gov. Newsom

The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 2762, the Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act. This landmark legislation bans 12 toxic ingredients, such as PFAS, mercury and formaldehyde, which are already...

Bill Requires California To Test Millions of Children for Lead Exposure

The California state legislature sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would protect millions of children from the developmental and health impacts of toxic lead exposure. Assembly Bill 2276 addresses...

Duke Energy’s Shell Game: New Resource Plan Touts Carbon Cuts, But Adds More Gas and Nukes

Duke Energy says it will achieve “net zero” carbon pollution by 2050. But its new resource plan for the Carolinas almost certainly means it will continue to rely on fossil fuels and nuclear reactors...

McConnell COVID-19 Package Fails Farmworkers, Hungry Families

The following is a statement from Scott Faber, EWG's senior vice president for government affairs, on the COVID-19 relief package released today by Senate Republicans.