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EWG response to EPA’s Draft Chesapeake Bay Pollution Diet
Download PDF. Read our Bay out of Balance Report November 5, 2010 Water Docket Environmental Protection Agency Mailcode: 28221T 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. Washington, DC 20460 Re: Draft Chesapeake...
Overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard: Stakeholder Perspectives
Testimony of Scott Fabe, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, Environmental Working Groupb before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on...
Reading, Writing and Risk
More than two million California children attend school in portable classrooms that can be a significant source of exposure to airborne toxic chemicals and molds, according to state and federal data analyzed by Environmental Working Group (EWG).
FTC FOIA Re: Brazilian Blowout
EWG response to EPA’s review of chromium-6 health effects
EWG Calls on FDA to Reform Nutrition Facts Labels to Address Added Sugars and Over-fortification of Food
EWG Comments to California Department of Public Health: Proposed Chromium 6 Drinking Water Standard Far Too High
Statement on Federal GMO Labeling Proposal
EWG President Ken Cook issued the following statement in response to the proposal by Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., on GMO labeling.
EWG’s Statement on FDA’s Finalized ‘GRAS Rule’
EWG Legislative Attorney Melanie Benesh issued the following statement today in response to the federal Food and Drug Administration's announcement Friday that it finalized its rule governing...
EWG Comments on Chemical Risk Evaluation Procedures Under New TSCA
EWG has spent over a decade advocating for reforms to strengthen the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). EPA should use its expanded authority to create a robust, data-driven risk evaluation process...
EWG Comments on Prioritizing Chemicals for Risk Evaluation Under New TSCA
The new requirements under the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act will for the first time require the Environmental Protection Agency to systematically review existing...
House Bill to Strengthen Federal Personal Care Products Law
EWG Vice President of Government Affairs Scott Faber said that draft cosmetics legislation released today by Reps. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., and Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., will help make regulation of...
EWG Statement on EPA’s Top 10 Chemicals
Today the Environmental Protection Agency released its list of 10 priority chemicals.
Using New Authority, EPA Proposes First Toxic Chemical Ban in More Than 25 Years
Using its strengthened powers under the recently modernized chemical safety law, the Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to ban a chemical's use as an aerosol spray degreaser and spot...
Taking a Page From Putin Regime, Trump Administration Silences EPA
Today's unprecedented action by the White House forbidding the Environmental Protection Agency to share any information with the press or public is a chilling move that mocks democratic principles...
Study: Monsanto’s Glyphosate Most Heavily Used Weed-Killer in History
Monsanto's signature herbicide glyphosate, first marketed as “Roundup,” is now the most widely and heavily applied weed-killer in the history of chemical agriculture in both the U.S. and globally...
Food Companies, EWG Petition EPA for Stringent Limits on Glyphosate in Oats
The Environmental Working Group, joined by food and nutrition companies including MegaFood, Ben & Jerry's, Stonyfield Farm, MOM's Organic Market, Nature's Path, One Degree Organic Foods, National Co...
World Health Organization Labels Glyphosate Probable Carcinogen
The Environmental Working Group today called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to require mandatory GMO labeling after the World Health Organization's cancer research arm designated the...
EWG Urges California to Protect Kids from Monsanto’s Cancer-Causing Herbicide
California's landmark health guideline for Monsanto's herbicide glyphosate is a huge step forward, but falls short of protecting children's health, according to evidence assembled by EWG scientists.
LA County Bans Use of Monsanto’s Roundup Weedkiller on County Property Over Health Concerns
The same day that a second jury in seven months found that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, causes cancer, Los Angeles County banned any further use of the toxic weedkiller by...
Bipartisan PFAS Package Clears Key Senate Committee
A key Senate committee today approved a bipartisan proposal to expand dramatically government efforts to monitor the scope of the PFAS contamination crisis.
Bipartisan Bill To Protect Californians From Toxic Jewelry Clears Key Committee
Bipartisan legislation to protect Californians, especially children, from jewelry tainted with highly toxic heavy metals sailed through a key committee Wednesday.
In Indiana, Latest Duke Energy Proposal Clings to Fossil Fuels, Dismisses Renewables
Duke Energy wants to force its Indiana customers to pay for a business-as-usual plan that continues to rely almost exclusively on dirty and expensive coal- and gas-fired power plants, ignoring the...