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Cleaning Supplies
Cosmetics

New EWG Healthy Living App Includes Healthy Cleaners

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Working Group has added information about healthy cleaners to its Healthy Living App, putting ratings at shoppers' fingertips for more than 122,000 foods, personal care...

Research

Statement on Phase-out of Cyanazine

The tap water of about 1 million Californians, mostly in the San Joaquin Valley, is contaminated with a long-banned pesticide that is one of the most potent carcinogens known, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis of state data. Yet California's current drinking water standards for the compound allow exposure to 100 times the "safe" adult dose and almost 300 times the "safe"
Toxic Chemicals
Asbestos
Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics

Analysis: Talc-Based Cosmetics Test Positive for Asbestos

Laboratory tests of talc-based cosmetics products, commissioned by the Environmental Working Group, found asbestos – a deadly human carcinogen for which there is no safe level of exposure – in almost...

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

Final Version of Water Bill Puts Pork Ahead of PFAS Pollution

A House-Senate conference committee approved a final version of the Water Resources Development Act, or WRDA, for 2020, which both houses will vote on before it goes to the White House for President...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
COVID-19
PFAS Chemicals

CDC Investigates Potential Link Between ‘Forever Chemicals’ and Decreased Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines

A federal health agency is investigating whether exposure to the fluorinated "forever chemicals" called PFAS could affect the potential effectiveness and duration of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Research

Mercury Falling

Scientists and government officials, including a blue ribbon panel of the National Academy of Sciences, are growing increasingly concerned about the health threat that mercury contamination of commonly eaten fish may pose to the delicate, rapidly developing nervous systems of fetuses, infants and young children.

EWG Thanks Hedstrom

Susan Meek Vice-President of Licensing & Communications Hedstrom Corporation 3436 North Kennicott Arlington Heights, IL 60004 Dear Susan, I am writing to thank you for Hedstrom’s laudable step of...
Asbestos

Judge Becker: Asbestos Arbiter - FAIR or UnFAIR?

Judge Edward Becker of the U.S. Circuit Court in Philadelphia was asked by Senate leaders to oversee negotiations around a compromise asbestos trust fund bill. In a letter to Judge Becker, EWG...

Government Asked to Evaluate the Cancer-Causing Potential Of Fluoride in Tap Water

Citing a strong body of peer-reviewed evidence, EWG today asked the National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to list fluoride in tap water in its authoritative...
Farm Subsidies

More Civil Rights Trouble at USDA: GAO Investigators Kicked Out of Offices

WASHINGTON, March 3 – Last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials ordered auditors from the Government Accountability Office out of their offices, and ordered USDA employees not to speak with...

EWG testimony to the FDA's Science Board

Testimony by Olga V. Naidenko, Ph.D. to the FDA's Science Board regarding the FDA's draft risk assessment for BPA in food packaging.

Statement of Dusty Horwitt, JD

Oversight Hearing on Natural Gas Drilling in the New York City Watershed, Part II Before the New York City Council Committee on Environmental Protection Friday, December 12, 2008 at 10:00 a.m...

EWG's comments on EPA's exposure assessment report for PBDEs

Download this PDF. National Center for Environmental Assessment Environmental Protection Agency c/o EPA Docket Center, Mail Code 2822T EPA West Building 1301 Constitution Ave., NW Washington, DC 20005...
Research

Polluter Privilege

Across Ohio, small and large businesses have polluted public drinking water supplies with impunity. An Environmental Working Group analysis of Ohio EPA data and an internal, unpublished report from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) shows that industries have contaminated at least 54 public water supplies, but have been held responsible for contributing toward cleanup in only

Chemical Policy
Pesticides
Triclosan
Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies

EWG presses regulators to investigate use of pesticide in liquid soap

Download PDF version. Office of Pesticide Programs Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20460-0001 Regarding: EPA’s Decision to Support Re-registration of Triclosan...

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

Leading Scientists Call for Increases Pesticide Testing on Children's Favorite Foods

Leading pesticide researchers write FDA, USDA and EPA to call for increased monitoring of pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables, as well as more study of pesticide effects on children.
Toxic Chemicals
Arsenic
Household & Consumer Products
Children’s Health

EWG's Comments on CCA Ban Petition HP01-3

Testimony before the Consumer Product Safety Commission Jane Houlihan Vice President for Research Environmental Working Group Washington DC Download the PowerPoint File March 17, 2003 I appreciate the...
Toxic Chemicals
Asbestos

Remove CSI Toy with Asbestos from Shelves

Download this letter as a PDF Download the PDF of the ADAO report View EWG press release View letter to Costco December 4, 2007 Tom DeLuca/Al Kaufman Toys “R” Us, Inc. Headquarters One Geoffrey Way...
Energy

Statement of Kenneth A. Cook

Statement of Kenneth A. Cook, President, Environmental Working Group before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation on crucial issues surrounding the safety and...

Testimony of Deborah Rice, Ph.D.

Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention to The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Science Under Siege: Scientific Integrity and the Environmental Protection Agency Download PDF file of...
Chromium-6
Food & Water
Water

EWG Urges EPA: Protect Public from Chromium-6 in Tap Water

EWG submits comments on EPA's IRIS program draft toxicological review of hexavalent chromium.

Children’s Health
Food & Water
Food

EWG Takes a Stand on Food Marketed for Children

EWG strongly supports the proposed nutrition principles of the Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children.

Chemical Policy
BPA

New Research Fuels Demand for BPA-Free Food Cans

EWG writes FDA commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg that a pivotal new study intensifies concerns about the danger of bisphenol A, plastics chemical and synthetic estrogen, to public health.
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Household & Consumer Products

EWG’s Ken Cook Testifies On House Bill to Reform Chemicals Law

EWG President Ken Cook testifies to the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection about the major shortcomings in the Toxic Substances Control Act.