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Corn Lobby Offers Flawed Data To Deflect Blame for Dead Zone
EPA Report: Fracking Contaminated Drinking Water
Contrary to the drilling industry claim that hydraulic fracturing has never contaminated groundwater, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded in a 1987 study that “fracking” of a natural gas...
EPA’s New Chemical Data Reporting Rule Falls Short
Environmental Working Group senior scientist David Andrews issued the following statement in response to today's announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency of its revised Chemical Data...
Swiss Cell Phone Findings Troubling for Children’s Health
Although parents are likely feeling reassured by the first media headlines about a new Swiss study of brain tumor risk in children using cell phones, the findings are actually quite troubling...
California Issues Standard for Erin Brockovich Chemical
The California Environmental Protection Agency has set a public health goal of 0.02 parts per billion for drinking water contamination with the carcinogenic compound hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6...
Health and Environment Advocates to Congress: Support National Children’s Study
EWG Meat Eater’s Guide Spotlights Beef’s Outsize Carbon Footprint
Disapproval of Fracking Panel Grows
Just In Time for the 4th of July: EWG Adds New Products to Sunscreen Guide
Since releasing the 2011 Sunscreen Guide in May, Environmental Working Group has received dozens of requests from companies and supporters alike asking to add more of their favorite products to the...
Broad Coalition Condemns Unbalanced Gas Drilling Panel
National, State Groups Back Health Care for Camp Lejeune Vets, Families
Veterans and their families made ill by contaminated well water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina should not have to fight to get medical care and services.
Despite Claims of Reform, Subsidy Band Marches On
As the Senate Agriculture Committee meets today to discuss accountability and spending on farm programs, new data washes away the gloss of reform used by the subsidy lobby and its champions in...
EPA Misfires on New Misfueling Rule
For three decades, the politically well-connected corn ethanol industry has been able to harness government support without much thought to the fuel's harm to health, the environment and engines...
Fracking Panel Schedules Follow-ups to Contentious Hearing
Following up on last week's contentious hearing in Washington, Pa., the U.S. Energy department has scheduled two all-day sessions for Tuesday, June 28, and Wednesday, July 13, to listen to people...
Grand Canyon and Colorado River Temporarily Protected from Uranium Mining
The Obama administration today took an emergency measure to bar new mining claims on a 1-million-acre area around the Grand Canyon until December. At that time, administration officials indicated they...
House Votes to Cut Off Subsidies for Brazilian Cotton Farmers
A majority of the House of Representatives today approved an amendment that would end U.S. taxpayer-funded subsidies for Brazilian cotton farmers in one of a series of votes on an appropriations bill...
Senate Votes To End Thirty-Three-Year-Old Ethanol Subsidies
The U.S. Senate voted today 73 to 27 to repeal the ethanol tax credit and ethanol tariff. This historic vote, which came on an amendment to S. 782, the Economic Development Revitalization Act...
FDA Sunscreen Rules Too Little and VERY Late
The federal Food and Drug Administration's new sunscreen rules, released today after nearly 33 years of deliberations, fall short.
EWG'S 2011 Shopper's Guide Helps Cut Consumer Pesticide Exposure
Environmental Working Group has released the seventh edition of its Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce with updated information on 53 fruits and vegetables and their total pesticide loads. EWG...
Conflict at the Canyon
The Obama administration's imminent decision on the future of uranium mining near the Grand Canyon could be swayed by the analysis of a mining industry consultant who stands to reap hundreds of...