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Lawsuit Urges FDA to Protect Salon Workers, Consumers from Formaldehyde
Today the Environmental Working Group and Women's Voices for the Earth sued the Food and Drug Administration for its failure to protect the public from dangers associated with popular hair...
Michelle Pfeiffer Joins EWG’s Board of Directors Actress, Environmentalist Is a Long-Time EWG Supporter
Golden Globe Award winner and three-time Academy Award nominated actress Michelle Pfeiffer has joined the board of directors at EWG. She brings not only enormous influence, but also a longstanding...
Chemicals Targeted for EPA Review Include Carcinogens in Some Consumer Goods
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency named the first 10 chemicals it will evaluate under the new Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, the first update since 1976 of...
Author and Advocate Meg Hirshberg Joins EWG’s Board of Directors
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg, a nationally recognized health and wellness advocate and author, has joined the board of directors at EWG, further raising the group's profile as the nation's leading...
Picking Pruitt for EPA, Trump Signals Campaign Attacks Against Public Health Will Become Policy
The nation's public health protection laws, including those in place to reduce pollution in our air, land and water, will be under withering assault with President-elect Donald Trump's apparent pick...
Big Market for Black Cosmetics, but Less-Hazardous Choices Limited
In a growing market for Black cosmetics, Black women nonetheless have limited choices for products that score low in potentially harmful ingredients, an EWG analysis of more than 1,100 products found...
EWG Statement on EPA’s Top 10 Chemicals
Today the Environmental Protection Agency released its list of 10 priority chemicals. Here is a statement from Scott Faber, EWG's senior vice president for government affairs:
Fields of Filth: First Inventory of Hurricane’s Impact on N.C. Factory Farms
Hurricane Matthew's rampage through North Carolina's coastal plain flooded more than 140 feces-strewn swine and poultry barns, more than a dozen open pits brimming with hog waste and thousands of...
EWG Announces New Jonas Initiative for Children’s Environmental Health
With the generous support of the Jonas Family Fund, EWG is launching the Jonas Initiative for Children's Environmental Health, redoubling EWG's decades-long commitment to children's environmental...
Toxic Chemicals May Contaminate Oil Field Wastewater Used to Grow Calif. Crops
In the last three years, farmers in parts of California's Central Valley irrigated nearly 100,000 acres of food crops with billions of gallons of oil field wastewater possibly tainted with toxic...
New EWG Database Details $30 Billion Spent on U.S. Farm Conservation Programs
In the last decade, U.S. taxpayers have sent $30 billion to farmers and landowners to fund federal conservation programs to protect public health and the environment, according to data obtained...
Think U.S. Agriculture Will End World Hunger? Think Again, Says New Report
U.S. agribusiness spokesmen routinely defend practices that pollute air and water, and destroy soil by claiming that American farmers are doing what it takes to “feed the world.”
Report: Banned for Decades, Dangerous Monsanto Chemical Remains in Thousands of Schools
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 to FDA: Investigate Practices Used to Boost SPF Values
EWG urged the federal Food and Drug Administration today to investigate whether certain ingredients used in sunscreens to boost SPF values are masking sunburn, the body's main warning sign of skin...
In Wake of N.C. Chrom-6 Scandal, EWG, Brockovich Call for Action by EPA
As news about North Carolina's governor and his administration downplaying the risks of drinking water contaminated with hexavalent chromium unfolds, two leading environmental health advocates are...
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...
EWG’s statement on House Consideration of GMO Labeling Bill
EWG President Ken Cook issued the following statement today in response to the House's consideration of the Roberts-Stabenow GMO labeling bill the House is expected to take up this week.
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...
