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EWG Urges EPA to Finalize Dioxin Toxicity Assessment
Lawsuit Challenges California Plan Allowing Pesticide Spraying on Schools, Homes, Organic Farms
Eleven groups and the city of Berkeley sued the California Department of Food and Agriculture today over the agency's approval of a statewide “pest management” plan that allows pesticide spraying on...
EWG Action Fund: FACT Act Favors Asbestos Industry Over Justice, Public Health
Legislation re-introduced by Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, would place new burdens on asbestos bankruptcy trusts, slowing compensation to victims suffering from fatal asbestos-related diseases such...
Bill Would Pave Way For Greener Biofuels
Bipartisan legislation introduced today to eliminate the federal requirement to blend corn ethanol into gasoline would help pave the way for greener biofuels and lessen the burden on the environment...
Chef Colicchio, Activists, Lawmakers Demand Action on GMO Labeling
Chef Tom Colicchio joined Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) today as they reintroduced bipartisan legislation that would give Americans...
EWG Commends Nestlé USA For Removing Artificial Colors
Nestlé USA's announcement that it will remove artificial colors from its candy products shows that the chocolate maker is listening to consumers who don't want these additives in their food...
California Legislation Introduced to Ensure Consumer Right to Know What’s In Cleaning Products
Sacramento, Calif. – The Environmental Working Group and the Breast Cancer Fund congratulate Assemblymember Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, Sr. (D-Los Angeles) for introducing much-needed legislation...
Leading Legal Scholars, Public Interest Lawyers Call Industry’s Chemical Bill ‘Deeply Problematic’ for Human Health
WASHINGTON – A group of top legal scholars, law professors and public interest lawyers with years of collective experience in public health law, including state and federal toxics policy, today took...
Feinstein Introduces Bill To Protect People From BPA
Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced a bill yesterday that would help protect Americans from the toxic chemical bisphenol A, known as BPA, the Environmental Working Group said in a statement...
Frack Backers Seek to Pack Fed Drilling Hearing
The natural gas industry is pulling out all the stops to build a friendly crowd of drilling and fracking supporters at a federal Energy Department field hearing on fracking scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday...
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...
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Baby Products BPA Ban Heads to CA Senate
Legislation to ban the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A from baby bottles and sippy cups sold in California is moving to the California Senate floor.
N.Y. Lawmakers Decry DoE’s Unbalanced Fracking Panel
Elected officials from across New York state voiced their disapproval of the U.S. Department of Energy's advisory board on natural gas drilling, demanding that Secretary of Energy Steven Chu correct...
Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Linked to Diminished IQ
EWG: Chair of Dept. of Energy Natural Gas Panel Must Step Down
During a public meeting of the Secretary of Energy's advisory board on natural gas extraction and hydraulic fracturing, the Environmental Working Group called on the panel's chairman to resign because...
On The Hook: Commercial Fishing Reaps Billions
FCC Softened Advisory on Cell Phone Radiation
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show that wireless industry representatives were granted a number of high-level meetings with top Federal Communications Commission...
EPA Airs Plan to Unveil Secret Chemicals
Washington, D.C. – Spurred by an Environmental Working Group investigation about government and corporate secrecy that cloaks the very identity of many industrial chemicals, the Environmental...