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Leading Legal Scholars, Public Interest Lawyers Call Industry’s Chemical Bill ‘Deeply Problematic’ for Human Health
WASHINGTON – A group of top legal scholars, law professors and public interest lawyers with years of collective experience in public health law, including state and federal toxics policy, today took...
Feinstein Introduces Bill To Protect People From BPA
Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced a bill yesterday that would help protect Americans from the toxic chemical bisphenol A, known as BPA, the Environmental Working Group said in a statement...
Trump EPA Moves To Shield Info on Asbestos Imports and Use From Public
The Trump administration has denied a petition by a coalition of environmental groups calling for increased reporting of asbestos importation and use by U.S. manufacturers – despite a sharp rise in...
Trump EPA Indefinitely Delays Bans on Deadly Chemicals
The Trump Administration last week proposed to indefinitely delay proposed bans of high-risk uses of three toxic chemicals: Methylene chloride and N-Methylpyrrolidone, or NMP, in paint strippers and...
Chemicals linked to birth defects can stay in cosmetics, says Cosmetic Industry safety panel
Trump EPA To Leave Lethal Paint Stripper Chemical Legal for Workers
The Trump administration is likely to allow methylene chloride, a dangerous chemical that can kill a person on contact, to remain an ingredient in paint stripper products for commercial use. The...
Trump EPA’s Meddling with Toxic Chemicals Law Sparks Bipartisan Calls for Oversight Hearing
Concern among members of Congress over the Trump administration's implementation of the updated federal chemicals law burst across the aisle this week, with both the top Republican and Democrat on a...
EWG: ‘Unilever Has Raised the Bar for Fragrance Transparency’
The Environmental Working Group applauds personal care products giant Unilever for making good on its commitment to give consumers information about fragrance ingredients across its 15 brands of...
Trump PFAS Plan Is a Recipe for More Contamination
The Environmental Protection Agency's so-called PFAS management plan would only make the nationwide crisis of pervasive pollution from fluorinated compounds worse, EWG said.
Pioneers in PFAS Fight Call Out Trump EPA’s ‘Action Plan’
Two of the nation's leading voices fighting for victims of PFAS contamination and pushing for federal action sharply rebuked the Environmental Protection Agency's toothless “action plan” for the...
Senate Confirms Wheeler, Ex-Fossil Fuel Lobbyist, To Head EPA
The Senate today confirmed Andrew Wheeler, a former top lobbyist for coal and chemical companies, as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
All Hands on Deck
In February 2002 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a phase out of the pesticide CCA, or chromated copper arsenate, an arsenic based chemical mixture used to preserve so-called “pressure-treated” lumber. CCA is 22 percent arsenic by weight, and the Agency noted when it announced the ban that “arsenic is a known human carcinogen.” Children who play on arsenic-treated play
NYT: To Avoid Cleanup, Pentagon Demands PFAS Standards Up to 30x Higher Than Safe Level in Federal Study
The Pentagon is lobbying the White House to back woefully weak cleanup standards for PFAS chemicals, which contaminate water on or near hundreds of military bases, according to The New York Times.
White House, EPA Ignore Calls To Protect Workers From Deadly Paint Stripper Chemical
The Trump administration announced today it will allow methylene chloride, a dangerous chemical that can kill a person on contact, to remain an ingredient in paint-stripper products for commercial use...
California Governor Signs Major Reform of Kids’ Lead Testing Program Into Law
Today Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law sweeping legislation that will mean hundreds of thousands more at-risk California children would be tested for lead poisoning each year. The law will bring major...
Environmental Groups Sue Trump Administration Over New Rules That Will Make It Harder to Protect Against Harm From Toxic Chemicals
Environmental groups have brought two suits against the Trump administration for weakening key rules establishing how the Environmental Protection Agency will regulate toxic chemicals found in...
Pruitt Terminates No-Bid Contract with GOP ‘Media Monitoring’ Firm 24 Hours After EWG and American Oversight Call for Inquiry
Less than 24 hours after American Oversight and Environmental Working Group called on the Environmental Protection Agency Inspector General to investigate the agency's no-bid contract with a...
EPA’s Pruitt Says “Hard to Predict” How Much Time He Spends in Secure Phone Booth
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt couldn't say how much of his work to safeguard public health and natural resources he conducts from his new $25,000 secure phone booth.
Asbestos-Laced Makeup Latest Example of Children’s Products Contaminated with Deadly Fiber
The troubling news about the presence of asbestos in children's makeup is the latest example of the deadly fiber contaminating imported products marketed toward children, said Environmental Working...
Trump’s Failed Toxics Nominee to Depart EPA
Michael Dourson, who withdrew his nomination to head the chemical safety office at the Environmental Protection Agency after it was clear the Senate would not confirm him, will soon leave the agency...
Top Pruitt Aide Has Side Hustle as Media Consultant – EPA Won’t Reveal Clients
John Konkus, a top public affairs officer at the Environmental Protection Agency, is working on the side as a media consultant. The EPA not only doesn't have a problem with that, but won't even say...
AP: Interior Secretary Zinke Spent $139K on Three Office Doors
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spent nearly $139,000 on three office doors last year, according to the Associated Press.
Big Food Companies Spend Millions to Defeat GMO Labeling
Federal lobby disclosure forms from big food and biotechnology companies, and their trade groups opposed to mandatory GMO labeling reveal a surge in lobbying expenditures during the first half of 2015...
National Black Farmers Association and EWG Applaud Crop Insurance Reform in Budget Deal
Here is a joint statement from John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, and Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs of EWG, on a critical crop insurance reform...
