Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay
Despite a quarter of a century of effort by farmers, citizens, environmentalists, and government officials to address pollution in the streams, rivers and waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region...
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Supermarkets Must Halt Use of Storage Racks Made with Toxic Flame Retardant Chemical
In efforts to protect the nation's food supply from further chemical contamination, Environmental Working Group (EWG) today urged the country's largest grocery stores and supermarkets to suspend the...
BPA Restriction a Step Closer with House Vote on Food Safety Bill
Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Food Safety and Enhancement Act of 2009 (H.R.2749) which included a provision by Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) that would require the...
Dog Food Contaminated with Levels of Fluoride Above EPA's Legal Limit for Humans
Eight of 10 dog food brands tested by an independent laboratory commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) contain fluoride in amounts up to 2.5 times higher than the Environmental Protection...
EWG Launches Interactive News and Commentary Site on Toxic Chemicals Policy Reform
Environmental Working Group (EWG) today launched an interactive online site featuring news and commentary, as well as a forum for a thought-provoking exchange of ideas on reforming the nation's...
Cloud Over BPA Grows As Top Hormone Researchers Warn Of Health Threat
The country's top endocrine scientists have declared the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA) and other environmental pollutants shown to disrupt the endocrine system to be a “significant concern...
EWG Calls on Coca-Cola to Protect Customers from BPA
Environmental Working Group (EWG) today called on The Coca-Cola Company's chairman and chief executive officer Muhtar Kent to take immediate steps to reduce children's exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), a...
First-Ever Statewide Ban of BPA Adopted in Minnesota
This morning, Minnesota's governor, Tim Pawlenty (R) signed landmark legislation, the first statewide prohibition on the use of the toxic plastics chemical Bisphenol-A, or BPA, in baby bottles and...
California State Senator Pavley Introduces Legislation to Protect Babies and Toddlers from Toxic BPA Exposure
Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) has introduced legislation sponsored by Environmental Working Group (EWG) to reduce exposure of California's infants and toddlers to the toxic hormone disrupting...
NY State Admits Ignoring Threat to City’s Drinking Water
According to documents obtained by Environmental Working Group (EWG) through New York's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has not...
Lautenberg Assumes Powerful Committee Position With Oversight of Toxic Chemicals
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, D-NJ, one of the U.S. Senate's most influential advocates for children's health has assumed the chair of the Environment and Public Works subcommittee charged with...
Making a Difference
There is no question that America faces an environmental and energy crisis. Today the American Wind Energy Association reports that Iowa has the second-greatest wind energy generating capacity, topped...
Research
What the Chemical Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
It takes a lot of nerve to go up against the $3 trillion-a-year global chemical industry. Ask University of Missouri-Columbia scientists Frederick Vom Saal and Wade Welshons. They've been in the industry's crosshairs for more than a decade, since their experiments turned up the first hard evidence that miniscule amounts of bisphenol A (BPA), an artificial sex hormone and integral component of a
Bush EPA Shirks Responsibility Over Perchlorate Contamination
WASHINGTON –- In a last-ditch effort to avoid regulating widespread perchlorate contamination of drinking water, the Bush Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for yet another blue-ribbon...
EWG: Infant Formula Companies Should Come Clean on Melamine, BPA
In response to yesterday's report that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found another toxic chemical -- this time melamine -- in infant formula, Environmental Working Group (EWG) today...
Safeway Stores to Remove BPA-Laced Baby Bottles from Shelves
Safeway's announcement today that it will stop selling baby bottles containing the plastics component bisphenol-A (BPA) in its 1,775 stores in the U.S. and Canada is a promising first step toward...
Canada to Take Immediate Action to Reduce BPA Exposure for Infants
As soon as tomorrow, Canadian health officials are poised to list the synthetic sex hormone bisphenol-A (BPA) as a toxic substance. Canada's action, which paves the way for an expected ban on BPA...
Harmful Chemicals Found in Bottled Water
Ten popular U.S. bottled water brands contain mixtures of 38 different pollutants, including bacteria, fertilizer, Tylenol and industrial chemicals, some at levels no better than tap water, according...
Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill’s Passage
Behind the thin green gloss Congressional leaders spread across the subsidy-laden 2008 farm bill, the Democratic Congress is now hacking away at pledges to expand conservation and other environmental...
NIH Refutes FDA’s Claims BPA is Safe for Use
The National Institutes of Health's National Toxicology Program (NTP) concluded today that bisphenol A (BPA), an artificial sex hormone and chemical used in hard plastic products like baby bottles...
EPA Again Decides Not to Regulate Chemicals in Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will not establish safety standards for 11 contaminants in drinking water.
One Pesticide Classified as Unsafe, Hundreds More to Go
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that carbofuran, already registered as a restricted use pesticide, poses dietary, worker and ecological risks.
National Academy of Sciences: Formaldehyde Causes Cancer
Congress, at the request of industry, has managed to delay efforts by the federal Environmental Protection Agency to classify formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen, a significant step for public...
EPA Unveils Plan to Help Identify ‘Brockovich’ Chemical in Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promised to help local water utilities address public concerns over the possible presence of hexavalent chromium (chromium-6) in drinking water, and today it...