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Trump Skips G-7 Climate Meeting, Slams Renewable Energy, but Insists ‘I’m an Environmentalist’

President Trump insisted today he's an environmentalist – but he had a peculiar way of showing it. After skipping a key meeting of world leaders at the G-7 summit on climate change, Trump said he...

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...

Governors Urge Congress To Keep PFAS Provisions in Defense Bill

Governors from 15 states, including many facing mounting contamination of drinking water sources from toxic perfluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, are urging Congressional leaders to include provisions in...

New State Data: Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Widespread in California Drinking Water Sources

Drinking water sources for 74 community water systems serving 7.5 million Californians are contaminated with the highly toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to an Environmental Working...

New Study Confirms High PFAS Blood Levels Among Firefighters

A new scientific review finds “unequivocal evidence” that firefighters using foams made with the fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS have “unacceptably” high levels of two toxic PFAS chemicals in...

Federal Judge's Ruling Allows Class Action Suit Against PFAS Makers to Proceed

An order issued today by a federal judge allows a class action case against 3M, DowDuPont, Chemours and six other companies to proceed when he denied every motion to dismiss the case brought by these...

Brain-Damaging Pesticide No Longer Sold in California

Farms in California can no longer buy a neurotoxic pesticide that can damage children's brains and nervous systems. As of today, chlorpyrifos is banned for sale in the state that grows most of the...

California Bills Would Ban ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Firefighting Foam, Expand Testing of Water for All PFAS Chemicals

On Tuesday the California Senate introduced two bills to address the growing contamination crisis of toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS. One bill would ban the chemicals in firefighting foam –...

EPA Conducting Criminal Investigations Into Industries’ Handling of PFAS Chemicals

The Environmental Protection Agency is pursuing multiple criminal inquiries into corporations that manufacture the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to a report by Bloomberg...

Key House Committee Approves Landmark Cosmetics Safety Legislation

Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health today approved landmark cosmetics safety legislation, a significant step toward finally protecting consumers from...

Nationally Recognized Leader in Clean Beauty Joins EWG Board

Barbara Paldus, a leading entrepreneur and innovator in the clean beauty sector, has joined the Environmental Working Group board of directors.

Erica Reid, Noted Healthy Lifestyle Leader, Joins EWG Board

Erica Reid, a nationally recognized leader in the healthy lifestyle sector, has joined EWG's board of directors.

EWG’s Nationwide Tap Water Transparency Report is Here: New Database Details Pollutants in Virtually All U.S. Public Water Systems

Starting today, the vast majority of Americans can learn about every potentially harmful chemical in their drinking water and what scientists say are the safe levels of those contaminants. EWG's new...

Pruitt Scrubs Climate, Renewable Energy Data for State and Local Governments From EPA Website

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has wiped much of the information that helps state and local governments fight climate change and invest in renewable energy sources from the agency...

OUT NOW: EWG’s 2020 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™

Nearly 70 percent of the fresh produce sold in the U.S. contains residues of potentially harmful chemical pesticides, according to the Environmental Working Group's 2020 Dirty Dozen™. Yet the dirtiest...

EWG and American Oversight Demand Release of Energy Department-Industry Communications on Trump Bailout for Coal, Nuclear

The Environmental Working Group and American Oversight formally petitioned the Department of Energy today to release all communications between senior officials and the energy industry over the Trump...

Trump EPA Quashes Chemical Safety Rule to Ease ‘Burden’ on Industry

The Environmental Protection Agency today repealed major safety requirements for chemical, agro-chemical and petroleum plants, which President Obama's administration put in place to protect workers...

Pentagon Admits it Undercounted Military Bases Contaminated with ‘Forever Chemicals’

The number of military installations and adjacent communities likely contaminated with toxic fluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, is higher than previously disclosed, a top Defense Department official...

Navy Asks To Delay Landmark PFAS Case in Federal Court

Last week, the Navy asked a federal court to delay a lawsuit seeking to require the military to pay for medical monitoring of people who live near naval installations to determine whether they have...

EWG Hires Jamie Konopacky, Environmental Attorney, as New Midwest Office Director

The Environmental Working Group has hired environmental attorney Jamie Konopacky as EWG's Midwest director, based in Minneapolis, to strengthen and expand EWG's work at the state and local level in...

Congress Fails To Address PFAS Contamination in Nation’s Tap Water or Clean Up Legacy PFAS Pollution

The defense spending bill passed by the Senate today excludes key provisions designed to reduce ongoing releases of the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, remove PFAS from tap water and clean up...

PFAS Contamination of Tap Water Far More Prevalent Than Previously Reported

New laboratory tests commissioned by EWG have for the first time found the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities, including major metropolitan areas...

Revlon First Global Brand To Bring EWG VERIFIED® Clean Cosmetic to Consumers

In a breakthrough move, Revlon becomes the first global brand to bring an EWG VERIFIED® cosmetic product to mass retailers, making affordable clean beauty a reality for millions of discerning...

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Uncontrolled Lusts

California regulators have failed to order cleanup or take other legally binding enforcement action on more than 90 percent of the thousands of underground fuel storage tanks known to be leaking toxic chemicals into water and soil throughout the state, although many of the leaks were first reported more than 10 years ago, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) computer-assisted