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Tests Find Notorious ‘Forever Chemicals’ at Elevated Levels in Drinking Water at Minnesota Army Base

Drinking water supplies at a Minnesota National Guard facility were contaminated with elevated levels of highly toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to newly released Department of...

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

EWG Comments to NTP on PFOA Carcinogenicity Report

EWG has submitted detailed technical comments to the National Toxicology Program regarding the draft report for PFOA carcinogenicity studies. EWG recommends the NTP reevaluate the carcinogenic...

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

Defense Bill Fails To Address PFAS Pollution in New Jersey

The defense bill passed by the Senate today excludes key provisions designed to reduce ongoing releases of the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, remove PFAS from tap water and clean up legacy...

Toxic Chemicals
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Defense Bill Fails To Address PFAS Pollution at Oregon Military Bases

A defense spending bill passed by the Senate today excludes key provisions designed to reduce ongoing releases of the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, remove PFAS from tap water sources and...

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Letter to ATSDR Director re: omissions from PFAS website

The Environmental Working Group is writing to urge ATSDR, an agency on the front lines of the fight to protect public health from PFAS pollution, to provide on its website the most robust, easily...

Toxic Chemicals
Energy

For Top White House Environment Job, Trump Taps Carbon Dioxide Fan

WASHINGTON – President Trump’s nomination of Kathleen Hartnett-White to chair the Council on Environmental Quality is his latest move to give polluters unfettered, unprecedented power inside the White...

Research

Particle Pollution and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in the United States

A recently published peer-reviewed study (Woodruff et al. 1997) found a statistically significant relationship between particulate air pollution in the United States and postneonatal infant mortality. Postneonatal mortality was defined as infant death that occurred between the age of 28 to 364 days. The study analyzed the relationship between PM10 levels and post- neonatal mortality within a
Toxic Chemicals
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Cell Phones

EWG Comments to FCC on Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields Rule

Environmental Working Group objects to the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to apply the outdated, insufficiently protective radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposure limits to 5G technology...

Children’s Health
Farming & Agriculture
COVID-19

COVID-19 Bill Fails To Protect Workers and Hungry Families

Here is a statement by Scott Faber, senior vice president for the Environmental Working Group, on the $484 billion COVID-19 bill currently under consideration by Congress: The bill passed Tuesday by...

Household & Consumer Products

DuPont sent this letter to a bird owner who put up a website about the danger of Teflon to birds

----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl L Mitchell" [email protected] > To: [NAME REMOVED] Subject: Use of DuPont trademark To Whom It May Concern: It has come to our attention...
Chromium-6
Food & Water
Water

EWG Challenges Paustenbach to Come Clean

Dear Dr. Paustenbach: We were stunned to read in The Scientist your rationale for hiding the funding source of the chromium-6 article under the names of JianDong Zhang and ShuKun Li in the April 1997...
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
PFAS Chemicals

EWG Comments to California OEHHA to Prioritize Chemicals for Proposition 65 Review

EWG submitted comments to California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment and the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee to recommend the prioritization of four...

Consumer Guides

Healthy Living App

EWG's Healthy Living app provides ratings for more than 130,000 food, personal care and cleaning products. Living your healthiest life has never been so easy.
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Tell Grocery Stores: Say NO to Chlorpyrifos!

By nicole.snyder | March 22, 2021

Neurotoxic chemicals shouldn't be anywhere near our food, but chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that can harm children's brains even in small doses, may be contaminating the produce you get at your grocery store.
Research

Is Northern Virginia a D.C.-Area Hot Spot for ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Tap Water?

Tap water samples from throughout Northern Virginia were contaminated with the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS at levels significantly higher than those previously reported for other parts of the Washington, D.C., metro area, according to tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group.
Energy
Renewable Energy
Federal & State Energy Policy

Toyota to Pay $180 Million for ‘Systemic, Longstanding’ Emissions Violations of Clean Air Act

Toyota will pay $180 million to settle federal civil charges of repeatedly failing for at least a decade to report emissions-related defects in its vehicles, in what the Environmental Protection...

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

EPA Starts Long Process to Set Legal Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Tap Water – But Action Needed Now

Today the Environmental Protection Agency took two long-overdue preliminary actions toward regulating the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in Americans' tap water, committing to set legal...

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

DuPont, Chemours and Corteva Reach $4 Billion Settlement on ‘Forever Chemicals’ Lawsuits

Today DuPont, Chemours and Corteva announced a cost-sharing agreement worth $4 billion to settle lawsuits involving the historic use of the highly toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.

Energy
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy
California
Federal & State Energy Policy

Under Pressure from Biden Administration, Toyota and Other Automakers Drop Support for Trump’s Suit to Block California Emissions Standards

Feeling the heat from President Biden's ambitious plans to counter the climate crisis, today Toyota, Fiat Chrysler and several other automakers dropped their support of the deposed Trump...

Energy
Federal & State Energy Policy
Renewable Energy
Utilities
Fossil & Nuclear

Part II: PG&E’s monopoly control boosts profits over ratepayers

California energy ratepayers are currently trapped in PG&E’s misguided operating plan that prioritizes investments that are designed to hike profits and reward shareholders. And the utility’s monopoly control over power means its customers have little means of escape.
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Energy
Utilities
Federal & State Energy Policy
Renewable Energy
Fossil & Nuclear

Part IV: An equitable clean energy plan for overhauling PG&E

California energy ratepayers could be forgiven for thinking their years-long story of being trapped in PG&E’s flawed power model might not have a happy ending. But the utility has the chance to be a pioneer of clean, equitable energy – if it wants.
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Research

Power and profit: How PG&E fails California ratepayers and what to do about it

EWG’s utility business model would create a more balanced policy and regulatory regime for PG&E customers. It is designed to hold the company responsible for its investment patterns and shift investment patterns to support a robust decentralized, consumer-friendly electric system.
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EWG news roundup (2/25): Crop insurance payments flow to many counties on the Mississippi, USGS finds PFAS in drinking water wells in 16 states and more

EWG news roundup (2/25): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
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Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Factory Farms
Farm Subsidies

Flush with cash, farmers ask Congress for even more money

Farmers are flush with cash, as exports soar, income and profits reach record highs, and subsidies hit historic levels. And now crop groups are asking Congress for even more money.
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