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Feeding Holiday Revelers? Let EWG’s Food Scores Help
Between entertaining, shuttling kids and visiting elderly parents and other family members most of us don't have the time and energy to whip up from-scratch meals several times a day. Yet everybody...
Will Big Corn Call Katie Couric a Flake Too?
BREAKING: EPA Nominee Ordered to Release Industry Emails
An Oklahoma state judge today ordered Scott Pruitt, the state's attorney general and President Trump's nominee for EPA administrator, to release some 3,000 emails between his office and the fossil...
More than half of US streams polluted: EPA
Fact versus fiction: ‘Forever chemicals’ hazardous substance designation is not a ban
FDA test results again downplay risks of ‘forever chemicals’ in food
EWG and 11 Other Environmental and Civil Society Groups Ask for Release of Major Trade Agreement Text
Citing a lack of transparency and public involvement in the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations, EWG and 11 other organizations sent a letter to Michael Froman, the United States...
Kids’ Cereals Pack 40 Percent More Sugar
Eating a bowl of kids' cereal every day would add up to eating 10 pounds of sugar a year, according to a new Environmental Working Group analysis of more than 1,500 cereals, including 181 marketed for...
America’s Corn Boom is Running Dry
Corn is in the food we eat, the soda we drink, the gas we buy, plastics, cleaners – it's everywhere. Producing all that corn is a $1.7 trillion industry in the United States, and as a new report...
The PFAS and the Furious
EWG: ‘Long Chain of Love Letters’ Between Pruitt and Fossil Fuel Industry
Thousands of emails between the Oklahoma attorney general's office and the fossil fuel industry reveal in detail how the state's former Attorney General Scott Pruitt – now head of the U.S...
EPA: Popular Weedkiller Threatens Wildlife
Worth Protecting
Today, on the eve of farm bill consideration by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, EWG is launching an unprecedented campaign to remind Congress that our land, our food, our families, and our farms...
Dourson’s Defeat a Big Win for Public Health
There were plenty of good reasons to oppose President Trump's nomination of Michael Dourson to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency. Dourson, who was opposed by public health...
EWG Says Proposed NY State Fracking Rules Won't Assure Safety
The Environmental Working Group today submitted comments to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) on its revised draft regulations for high-volume hydraulic fracturing. EWG...
Statement from EWG on the Senate Farm Bill
Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group, issued the following statement today on passage of the Senate version of the farm bill by the Senate Committee on...
Trump PFAS Plan Is a Recipe for More Contamination
The Environmental Protection Agency's so-called PFAS management plan would only make the nationwide crisis of pervasive pollution from fluorinated compounds worse, EWG said.
Congresswoman DeLauro Takes on Arsenic in Rice
Although scientists and government regulators have known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in drinking water, emerging evidence is showing that arsenic, a known human carcinogen, also...
EWG Applauds Nomination of Gina McCarthy to Head EPA
President Obama's selection of Gina McCarthy as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency “is a bold choice that reflects the president's strong commitment to protecting public health and...
Let's Talk Turkey: How to Decode Labels to Choose a Better Thanksgiving Bird
EPA’s Internal Watchdog Slams Agency for Failing To Fully Disclose Toxic Chemical Releases to Public
In an unusual move, the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general issued an emergency alert today warning that the agency had failed to provide the public all the available data regarding...
Super snacks for the Super Bowl, Oscars and more!
EWG's research team uses Food Scores database to bring you a February Food Scores Challenge featuring tortilla chips and salsa.
In Florida, Toxic Algae Mars the ‘Treasure Coast’ and Waylays Beachgoers
The Real Winners of the World Cup
The 32 countries competing in the 2014 FIFA World Cup ™ are all required to play by the same rules on the soccer field, but off the field they subscribe to different sets of rules when it comes to...