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EWG: ‘Brockovich’ Carcinogen Found in Tap Water of 200 Million Americans
Under an Environmental Protection Agency program, from 2013 to 2015, local water utilities took more than 60,000 water samples and found chromium-6 in more than 75 percent of samples. The EPA's tests...
FDA Finally Bans Toxic Triclosan from Antibacterial Hand Soaps
The federal Food and Drug Administration announced today that triclosan, a toxic chemical ingredient associated with hormone disruption in people, will no longer be allowed in antibacterial hand soaps...
EWG Lists the Top 10 Toxic Chemicals EPA Should Review Now
The nation's new chemical safety law promises to give the Environmental Protection Agency expanded authority to regulate hazardous chemicals in consumer products. But of the tens of thousands of...
Higher Levels of Flame Retardants Found in California Children
Flame retardant chemicals linked to cancer and hormone disruption have been detected in a group of California children at higher levels than found in an earlier study of kids in New Jersey, EWG...
New EWG Database Reveals 16,000 Foods That May Be Packaged with BPA
For consumers who want to avoid bisphenol A, EWG today unveiled an easily searchable database of more than 16,000 food and beverage items that may come in cans, bottles or jars containing the hormone...
Hundreds of Cancer-Causing Chemicals Pollute Americans’ Bodies
Hundreds of cancer-causing chemicals are building up in the bodies of Americans, according to the first comprehensive inventory of the carcinogens that have been measured in people. EWG released...
Senate Sends Obama Toxic Chemicals Bill That Falls Short of Needed Reforms
With tonight's voice vote in the Senate, chemicals policy reform legislation that fails to adequately protect human health and the environment is headed to the President, noted Environmental Working...
Chemical Reform Law Falls Short in Protecting Public Health, Environment
Environmental Working Group issued the following statement ahead of expected passage today by the House on H.R.3576, the TSCA Modernization Act of 2016.
For Spring 2016, EWG Updates Guide to Healthy Cleaning
The Environmental Working Group today released a new edition of its Guide to Healthy Cleaning, an online database detailing the health hazards and environmental concerns for more than 2,500 household...
U.S. Seafood Advice Could Expose Women and Babies to Too Much Mercury, Not Enough Healthy Fats
Pregnant women who follow the federal government's draft dietary advice could eat too much fish high in toxic mercury, which is harmful to the developing brains of fetuses, babies and young children...
Americans Want Stronger Regulation of Cosmetics
A survey released today by the Mellman Group and American Viewpoint shows that voters overwhelmingly support stricter regulation of the chemical ingredients used in their personal care products.
Procter & Gamble Leads Industry Toward Ingredient Transparency
EWG commended Procter & Gamble, the multinational manufacturer of family, personal care and household products, for taking a significant step today toward greater transparency about its ingredients by...
Study: Monsanto’s Glyphosate Most Heavily Used Weed-Killer in History
Monsanto's signature herbicide glyphosate, first marketed as “Roundup,” is now the most widely and heavily applied weed-killer in the history of chemical agriculture in both the U.S. and globally...
FDA Bans Three Toxic Chemicals From Food Wrapping – Too Little, Too Late
Under pressure from EWG and other environmental and health groups, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is banning three grease-resistant chemical substances linked to cancer and birth defects from...
Senate’s Toxic Chemicals Bill “Will Not Protect America’s Families”
If Frank Lautenberg, Jim Jeffords, Barbara Boxer and Henry Waxman had summoned support for this version of toxic chemical reform 10 years ago, only the chemical industry would have rallied to their...
Boxer Receives Inaugural EWG Courage Award
The Environmental Working Group has selected Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., a longtime champion of the environment and public health and ranking member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works...
Baby Products Can Expose Infants to a Toxic Chemical, Study Finds
Researchers found a fire-retardant chemical that could disrupt the hormone system in the urine of babies who were apparently exposed with baby products such as bassinets, car seats and nursery gliders...
EWG VERIFIED® Takes Aim At Toxic Ingredients In Consumer Products
The EWG VERIFIED: For Your Health™ mark will help shoppers quickly and easily identify personal care products, including cosmetics, that meet EWG's strictest standards while shopping in stores and...
Duke-EWG Study Finds Toxic Nail Polish Chemical In Women’s Bodies
Researchers at Duke University and Environmental Working Group have found evidence of a suspected endocrine-disrupting chemical widely used in popular nail polishes in the bodies of more than two...
Study Links Childhood Cancer and In-Home Pesticide Use
A new study by Harvard researchers provides disturbing evidence that children's exposure to household insecticides is linked to higher risks of childhood leukemia and lymphoma, the most common cancers...
