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The federal government and the states have adopted a high- cost, high-risk strategy in their drinking water programs, where consumers pay water suppliers to try to make polluted water drinkable. In spite of the vigorous efforts of drinking water providers, tap water made from dirty rivers and lakes is often host to multiple toxic chemicals, or is contaminated with the by-products of the clean-up
Citing Too Much Work, Oklahoma Atty. Gen. Moves to Block Remaining Pruitt Emails
After sitting on an open records request for more than a year, the Oklahoma attorney general's office – occupied until a week ago by Scott Pruitt, now head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
It Didn't Take Long: Trump’s First Environmental Assault Endangers Drinking Water of 100 Million Americans
WASHINGTON – With Scott Pruitt now installed as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, President Trump has moved quickly to strike a vital safeguard aimed at protecting the drinking...
Press Reports Cite White House’s Deep Divisions Over Climate Change Policy
The New York Times' Coral Davenport reports today that President Trump is being pulled in opposite directions over whether to pull the country out of the landmark Paris climate change treaty. The U.S...
EWG: EPA Chief's Shrug at Carbon Dioxide’s Role in Climate Change an 'Ominous Signal'
Scott Pruitt's downplaying of carbon dioxide as the driver of global warming is an ominous first signal of how the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator will address climate change, EWG...
Sen. Portman Pushes Bill to Gut Government’s Ability to Safeguard Consumers
Today, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, introduced the Senate version of H.R. 5, the Regulatory Accountability Act, which would require endless agency studies and two layers of judicial and Congressional...
Greening Hospitals
Lack of basic environmental practices at major U.S. hospitals is resulting in serious pollution problems and contamination of major foods, including baby foods. A first of its kind environmental survey of 50 major U.S. hospitals uncovered widespread failure on the part of medical facilities to take steps to halt contamination of milk, meats and fish by dioxins and mercury, pollutants that cause a
North Carolina Lawmakers Side With Big Pork Over Property Rights of Citizens
WASHINGTON – By overriding Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill shielding big hog farms from citizens’ lawsuits, 74 members of the North Carolina House of Representatives slashed the property rights and...
EWG: Trump's Budget Is Roadmap for Dirty Water, Bad Air and Hungry Kids
WASHINGTON – President Trump has proposed a budget that should be welcomed by chemical and pesticide makers and their lobbyists, though it would make ordinary Americans suffer from cuts to public...
Trump and Pruitt’s Ax to EPA Budget Threatens Water, Air, Public Health
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s proposed 31 percent cut to the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency will cripple the agency’s ability to protect public health and natural resources...
EWG Comments to the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors
EWG’s Comments to the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment on 1,2-DCE in Drinking Water
Below and attached are EWG’s comments to the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in support of a proposed update of the public health goals for Cis-/Trans- 1,2-Dichloroethylene...
EWG, Other Groups’ Letter Supports San Francisco Ordinance Requiring Disclosure of Antibiotics in Meat
Attached is a letter signed by EWG in support of proposed legislation that would require large grocery chains in San Francisco to report antibiotic use policies associated with their fresh meat and...
EWG Comments on Scoping of First 10 Chemicals Under TSCA Review
Attached are EWG’s comments on how the EPA should scope the first 10 chemicals it will review under the revised Toxic Substances Control Act.
Senate Committee Narrowly Approves Notorious Industry Apologist to Run EPA Chemical Safety Office
WASHINGTON – In a vote along party lines, President Trump’s nominee Michael Dourson was approved by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to be the head of the Office of Chemical Safety...
North Carolina Senators Won’t Vote to Confirm Trump’s Nominee for EPA’s Top Chemical Safety Post
North Carolina's two Republican senators, Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, will not support President Trump's nomination of Michael Dourson to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection...
Factory Farming
Every year, polluting industries send millions of pounds of waste materials to fertilizer companies, presumably for use as raw materials in fertilizer production. Even though these wastes are often laden with toxic metal and chemical impurities, fertilizer manufacturers use steel mill smokestack ash and air pollution scrubber brine, and other industrial byproducts as the raw materials for a
EWG Comments on EPA's Problem Formulation for the Risk Evaluation for Asbestos
Attached are EWG's comments on EPA’s problem formulation for the risk evaluation of asbestos.
EWG Comments on the California’s OEHHA Draft Public Health Goals for Trihalomethanes
Attached is the letter of comments sent by EWG to the state of California in support of OEHHA’s proposed public health goals for disinfection byproducts trihalomethanes in drinking water.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Farm Bailout Payments for Trump’s Trade War
Contact: EWG Press Team: (202) 667-6982 or [email protected] REVEALED: Farm Bailout Payments for Trump’s Trade War WASHINGTON – The names of Americans who have received bailout payments from the...
Environmental Working Group Comments to the Environmental Protection Agency
EWG has submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency urging the EPA to include a 10-fold Food Quality Protection Act children's health safety factor for the triclosan human health...
EWG Letter to PepsiCo on Glyphosate in Oat-Based Foods Marketed to Children
Attached is a letter sent by EWG to the CEO of PepsiCo detailing recent testing that found the herbicide glyphosate in oat-based their foods marketed to children.
New Clean Air Standards are No Sweat in Florida
EWG, Scientists and Doctors Sign Letter Urging EPA To Reject Potent Herbicide Mix
Administrator Gina McCarthy U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20460 RE: Dow AgroSciences application to amend their 2,4-D choline salt herbicide for use on 2...