Europe Steps Up to Protect Babies from BPA
Bisphenol-A (BPA) will be banned from baby bottles come June of 2011, announced the European Union's executive commission on Thursday.
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50 Groups Challenge Government Grant to Pro-Pesticide PR Campaign
OAKLAND, Calif. – More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials' award of a $180,000 taxpayer...
Pesticide Industry to Use Tax Dollars to Attack Critics
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The California Department of Food and Agriculture has awarded $180,000 in federal funds to finance an agribusiness-chemical industry plan to combat its critics – Environmental...
Arkansas Agribusiness Poised to Reap Millions Under White House-Backed Proposal
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Large agriculture interests across Arkansas are projected to receive more than $210 million in taxpayer dollars under a controversial disaster aid program conceived by Senate...
White House is Challenged on Plan to Fund “Disaster Aid” for Farmers
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, --Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook today wrote to the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) challenging the rationale for the White House's promise to...
EWG Stands By Its Vitamin A Sunscreen Warning
Washington, DC – Environmental Working Group's review of a commentary on the safety of retinyl palmitate in sunscreens, published August 6 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, has...
EPA May Regulate Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water
Making good on Administrator Lisa Jackson's confirmation promise, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving ahead with its deliberations on whether to impose the first national limits on...
California Proposes Nation’s First Limit on “Erin Brockovich” Chemical
After more than a decade of fighting an across-the-board industry campaign, the California government has finally announced proposed health guidelines for the deadly cancer-causing chemical hexavalent...
House Committee Sets Deadline for BPA Decision
In a rare move, the House Energy and Commerce Committee directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to finalize its safety determination over the controversial toxic plastics additive, bisphenol A...
Washington Lobbyists Connive to Kill California Public Health Bill
Last Thursday, chemical and food industry lobbyists called an emergency brainstorming session to devise an attack plan to stop a California legislative proposal for a virtual ban on the toxic plastics...
EWG Debunks Corn Ethanol Lobby's Push for Clean Air Act Waiver
The corn ethanol industry is misrepresenting scientific facts in efforts to dupe the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into waiving critical public health protections for the sake of boosting...
BPA Levels in Adults Up 70 Percent After Drinking From Plastic Bottles
Seventy-seven Harvard student volunteers experienced a nearly 70 percent increase in urinary levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a plastics component and synthetic estrogen linked to cancer, reproductive...
Cutting Conservation Programs No Way to Fight Global Warming
President Obama's proposed budget continues the long string of broken promises that have left conservation programs billions short over the past two farm bills. While the White House and the US...
EWG Commentary on SCOPE Biofuels Report
The following is commentary from Environmental Working Group Midwest Vice President Craig Cox regarding today's release of a Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) report on...
USGS Identifies Top Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Polluting Watersheds
For the first time, the U.S. Geological Survey has identified the top 150 polluting watersheds in the Mississippi River Basin that cause the annual 8,000 square-mile “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico...
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State by State EQIP Cuts
When Congress passed the 2008 farm bill on June 18, 2008, it promised to increase funding for the most important and popular program in farm country to prevent water pollution and tackle other priority conservation problems. The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) was to be funded at $1.337 billion dollars in fiscal year 2009-an increase of $320 million over the fiscal year 2007
New Legislation to Right the Wrongs of USDA Racial Discrimination
EWG and the National Black Farmers Association are pleased with the introduction of the Pigford Claims Remedy Act today. Introduced by Representatives Scott (D-VA) and Chabot (R-OH) and Senators...
Study Finds Thousands Receive Farm Disaster Aid At Least Every Other Year for Over Two Decades
Pressure is building in Congress for pre-election enactment of a $6.55 billion farm disaster aid bill, by far the most expensive such measure in history.
Press Release - Enforcing Mileage Standards
The U.S. would reduce oil imports by 20 percent if auto companies met mileage standards using realistic driving tests according to a new analysis by Environmental Working Group (EWG).
EWG Urges Censure of 'Brockovich' Scientist
(WASHINGTON, July 18) — A scientific consultant whose firm fraudulently planted a study rebutting a link between chromium and cancer should be censured for violating toxicology's professional code of...
Cook vs. Combest Debates?
Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook today challenged one the nation's most ardent and articulate defenders of status quo farm subsidy programs to a nationwide series of policy debates...
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Grand Canyon Threatened by Approval of Uranium Mining Activities
In an ominous move, the Forest Service has approved drilling for uranium at as many as 39 sites near the Grand Canyon's south rim, marking what may be the beginning of a rush to mine the radioactive mineral near the iconic National Park.
White House Ties Secure Yates' Drilling Rights to Sensitive N.M. Grasslands
For $2 an acre, the Bush Administration has given the rights to drill for oil and gas on New Mexico's Otero Mesa to a company whose White House connections were key to reversing earlier plans to...