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PG&E presses regulators for another massive electric bill hike

California’s largest investor-owned electric utility is pressing regulators to approve a nearly 10 percent hike in electricity fees, raising its captive customers’ power bills to an average $200 per...

FEBRERO 3, 2022

Alexis Temkin, Ph.D., Toxicóloga (EWG)
Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., Vicepresidenta de Investigaciones Científicas (EWG)
Sarah Porter, Directora Geoespacial (EWG)

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"El condado de Ventura, en California", así comenzaba un reportaje en The Washington Post de agosto de 2015, "es el lugar absolutamente más deseable para vivir en los Estados Unidos".

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Perfume for Babies? Seriously?

Fashion house Dolce & Gabbana is planning to market a perfume for babies. Founder Stefano Gabbana dropped a broad hint when he posted an Instagram photo of a golden box with a cupid and the comment,...

Gov. Newsom voices concern over PG&E’s plan to crush California’s rooftop solar program

During a press conference on Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed concern about a proposal to crush the state’s popular rooftop solar program. The proposal is backed by Pacific Gas &...

Animal feeding operations identification

EWG received a list of permitted animal feeding operations, or AFOs, from the Wisconsin DNR (WIDNR, 2018), which listed the dominant animal type and number of animal units, or AU, for each operation. This dataset was used for all counties except Kewaunee, for which EWG used a dataset derived from

EWG, Public Citizen Seek Court Backing for S.F. Cell Phone Radiation Law

The Environmental Working Group and Public Citizen have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to support a San Francisco law that would require cell phone retailers to distribute a...

EWG news roundup (1/28): EWG’s crop insurance database, ‘forever chemicals’ in various textiles and more

EWG news roundup (1/28): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Pesticide peril: Toxic threats to farmworkers and families in Ventura County

A toxic threat is facing many parts of California’s Ventura County, where everyone from farmworkers to families could be at risk from increased exposure to harmful pesticides.

Más de 32 millones de libras de pesticidas tóxicos, entre ellos muchos relacionados con el cáncer y los problemas respiratorios y de desarrollo, se han utilizado en los campos de cultivo del condado de Ventura entre 2015 y 2020, incluyendo cerca de las escuelas y los hogares, según un análisis pionero de los datos de pesticidas de California realizado por Environmental Working Group.

Poll: Voters overwhelmingly oppose California plan to crush popular rooftop solar program

Sixty-four percent of California voters oppose a power-industry-backed plan by the state’s Public Utilities Commission, or CPUC, to crush a popular rooftop solar program by ending incentives and...

EWG applauds Biden’s budget for prioritizing FDA food and cosmetics chemical safety

The Environmental Working Group today applauds President Joe Biden for making the safety of chemicals in food and cosmetics a priority for the Food and Drug Administration in the administration’s...

Change the code, not the climate

A campaign to push bitcoin to change its software code to use far less energy was launched today by the Environmental Working Group, Greenpeace USA and several groups battling bitcoin mining...

Change the code, not the climate: The campaign to clean up bitcoin

This campaign is asking the bitcoin community: Will you immediately commit to use your investments and your influence to clean up bitcoin?

Spring is in the air – let’s make sure toxic chemicals aren’t

It’s spring, and many Americans are cleaning out their homes and throwing away what they no longer need. Let’s make sure this happens without using toxic chemicals.

EWG news roundup (4/1): Bitcoin’s climate problem, Biden’s budget prioritizes chemicals in food and cosmetics, and more

This week, the Environmental Working Group joined Greenpeace USA and other groups to kick off the campaign to Change the Code, Not the Climate, which seeks to push bitcoin to change its software code...

Research

For decades, polluters knew PFAS chemicals were dangerous but hid risks from public

As far back as 1950s, studies conducted by 3M studied the toxic doses of PFAS in mice and researchers at Stanford found fluorinated chemicals could build up in our blood. By the 1960s, animal studies conducted by 3M and DuPont revealed that PFAS chemicals could pose health risks. But the companies kept the studies secret from their employees and the public for decades. Here is a timeline of

Cleaning Industry: Simple Steps to Improve Your Grades

Since we released the new online EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning, with ratings of more than 2,000 different products, many consumers and several companies have asked us why some products get low...

Tackling the rising climate costs of American food and farming

Even if the U.S. stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, rising greenhouse gas emissions from food and farming could make a climate catastrophe unavoidable.

What effect do melanin and sunscreen have on vitamin D levels?

Why do people with heavily pigmented skin often have lower levels of vitamin D, and how does sunscreen play a role? These are questions researchers are trying to answer.

Stifling solar: Duke Energy’s long war against North Carolina clean energy

Duke Energy is asking North Carolina utility regulators to approve a plan that could stifle the growth of renewable solar power in the state while hiking ratepayers’ bills – the latest in the monopoly...

Sunscreen - Lessons Learned From a Trip to the Beach

It's fair to say that I'm not a beach person. My hair is pale blonde and my skin is the color of a marshmallow, if it had freckles. I have nightmarish memories of being covered head to toe in...

EPA takes important steps to curb ‘forever chemicals’ in water, but more needed

The Environmental Protection Agency today announced several new actions to address discharges of the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS into lakes, rivers, streams and other sources of drinking water...

EWG news roundup (4/29): EPA to suspend all uses of toxic weedkiller, Duke Energy seeks to stifle clean energy in N.C. and more

EWG news roundup (4/29): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.