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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...
Stacked Fracking Panel Has Public Meeting Monday in Pennsylvania
Monday night, June 13, is your chance to speak up on behalf of America's drinking water and to help protect your land from damage from oil and gas drilling.
Health Care Bill for Camp Lejeune Vets, Families Moves Forward
Today's Senate committee vote to provide medical care for veterans and families made ill by contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune marks an important advance in the effort to address...
EWG Seeks Energy Department Records About Fracking Panel Composition
EPA: Water Wells Contaminated Near Fracking Blowout Site
Underscoring the risks to drinking water supplies of hydraulic fracturing, three water samples collected from private wells following a blowout at a Chesapeake Energy Corp. natural gas drilling site...
Senators Target Ethanol Tax Credit
A deal brokered by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) to end tax credits and tariffs that subsidize the U.S. ethanol industry is a step in the right...