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Grand Canyon, Colorado River Protected from New Uranium Mining
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to bar new uranium mining claims on 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon marks a decisive victory for efforts to protect the iconic national park and the...
EPA Moves to Limit Mercury Emissions
Cancer-Afflicted Marines Call on Obama for Support
Nearly 40 Marine veterans diagnosed with male breast cancer today urged President Obama to support legislation in Congress that would provide health care for those made ill by carcinogenic chemicals...
Gas Drilling Doublespeak
Gas drilling companies routinely warn their investors of a litany of possible disasters – such as leaks, spills, explosions, bodily injury and even death – but regularly fail to mention these risks...
EPA: Fracking Linked to Groundwater Contamination in Wyoming
According to a report by the Associated Press, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has concluded the natural gas extraction process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, could be responsible...
Kids’ Cereals Pack More Sugar Than Twinkies and Cookies
Market Shift: Hundreds of Cosmetics Companies Fulfill Safe Products Pledge
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics announced today that 321 cosmetics companies have met the goals of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, the Campaign's voluntary pledge to avoid chemicals banned by health...
EWG: With Super Committee Dead, Ag Leaders Should Make Public Secret Farm Bill Plan
Late last week, the four top leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees finalized the details of their secret farm bill, slated to be part of the so-called Super Committee's deficit...
Secret CBO Score Shows Secret New Farm Subsidy Program Is a Budget Buster
Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook and Senior Vice President Craig Cox today demanded that the top agriculture committee leaders make public new cost estimates for a five-year farm bill...
Corn and Cotton Clobber Poor Kids in Big Ag’s Secret Farm Bill
Cleaners’ ingredients would finally be disclosed under new bill
A ground-breaking consumer right-to-know bill introduced today by Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) would close labeling requirement loopholes that have allowed manufacturers to hide untested and even...
New Farm Subsidy Database Reveals Individuals Cashing Big Ag’s Federal Checks
The Environmental Working Group released a new Direct Payment Database today, giving taxpayers a look inside the complex agriculture partnerships and corporations that got the lion's share of $4.7...
Michael Pollan Names the World's 7 Most Powerful Foodies
Taxpayer Costs Balloon to $8 Billion under Farm Insurance Program
A newly released report on subsidized federal revenue insurance for industrial crop farmers shows that the government has failed to control its costs and big insurance companies and agents continue to...
Ruling Backs San Francisco on Transparency for Cell Phone Buyers
Californians Urge Healthy Food and Jobs Focus in Fast Tracked Farm Bill
More than 60 public health, nutrition, food, farm and environmental groups representing hundreds of thousands of California citizens are urging Gov. Jerry Brown and the state's congressional...
Senate Votes to Bar Farm Subsidies to Millionaires
The U.S. Senate voted 84-15 last night to deny farm subsidy payments to millionaires.
Judge Delays Consumer Protection Law
US District Judge William Alsup today asked the city of San Francisco to delay enactment of its lauded cell phone right-to-know ordinance until he decides whether to grant the cell phone industry's...
Chemical Giants Bow to BPA Ban in Kids' Foodware
Yielding to pressure from parents, health advocates, and lawmakers, the chemical industry has conceded that the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol-A should not be used to make baby bottles and sippy...
BPA Banned in California Baby Bottles
California parents are cheering and letting out a sigh of relief with the news that Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation banning the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles...