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Arsenic
Household & Consumer Products

Government Official Warns of Arsenic Wood Cancer Risk

Commissioner Thomas Moore of the federal government's Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) shares Environmental Working Group's (EWG) concern that children playing on decks, play sets and other...
Chemical Policy
Asbestos

New Analysis Shows Growing Number of Asbestos Related Deaths in Texas

Texas legislature is poised to consider legislation limiting the ability of the sick or dying to get their medical bills covered by the asbestos companies.
Chemical Policy
Asbestos

Senate Asbestos Bailout Bill Helps Libby Mine Workers, Neighbors, Denies Help to Workers Who Processed Libby Ore

Newly uncovered documents from W.R. Grace show that the company exposed workers in at least 14 of its insulation factories around the country to lethal asbestos dust at levels above those in the now...
Energy

DOI Data Suggest Norton Announcement Less Than It Seems

"Gale Norton should be honest when she brags to the public she is 'protecting' something. Gale Norton wasn't, according to records from her own department," said EWG Analyst Dusty Horwitt.
Toxic Chemicals
Flame Retardants

TOXIC FIRE RETARDANT FOUND IN SAMPLES OF CALIFORNIA MILK

In the first nationwide tests for chemical fire retardants in the breast milk of American mothers, Environmental Working Group (EWG) found unexpectedly high levels of these little-known thyroid toxins...
Toxic Chemicals

Toxic Fire Retardants Building Up Rapidly in CA Fish

Levels of a little-known class of neurotoxic chemicals found in computers, TV sets, cars and furniture are building up rapidly in key indicator species of San Francisco Bay fish, according to tests by...
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

Pruitt’s Legacy: Worst EPA Chief in Agency’s History

After 18 months of ethical scandals, profligate spending of taxpayer dollars and rollbacks of public health protections, Scott Pruitt has resigned as administrator of the Environmental Protection...

Food & Water
Water
Farming & Agriculture
Toxic Algae
Toxic Chemicals

Across U.S., Toxic Algal Blooms Threaten Lakes and Other Waterways

Across the U.S., a growing epidemic of toxic algal blooms is polluting lakes and other waterways, according to a new report by the Environmental Working Group.

Research

PFCs: Global Contaminants

Consumers instantly recognize them as household miracles of modern chemistry, a family of substances that keeps food from sticking to pots and pans, repels stains on furniture and rugs, and makes the rain roll off raincoats. But in the past 5 years, the multi-billion dollar “perfluorochemical” industry has emerged as a regulatory priority for scientists and officials at the U.S. Environmental
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Lead
Food & Water
Water

Federal Watchdog: More Than a Third of Schools Tested Have ‘Elevated Levels’ of Lead in Drinking Water

A troubling new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that more than a third of the nation's schools that tested their water for lead found “elevated levels” of the neurotoxin. But...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Food & Water
Water

Notorious Cancer-Causing Solvent TCE Taints Tap Water for 14 Million Americans

Tap water supplies for more than 14 million Americans are contaminated with a cancer-causing industrial solvent made notorious by the book and film “A Civil Action,” according to an Environmental...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides

Court Rebukes EPA, Orders Ban on Pesticide That Harms Kids’ Brains

In a scathing opinion, today a federal court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban chlorpyrifos, a toxic pesticide linked to brain damage in children.

Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG Statement on the EPA Nomination of Alexandra Dapolito Dunn

Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group, issued the following statement today on the nomination of Alexandra Dapolito Dunn as the Assistant Administrator...

Toxic Chemicals
Energy
Food & Water

EPA Watchdog Blasts Former Agency Chief Scott Pruitt Over Spending on Security

oday, the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general released a scathing account of the abuses of taxpayer money by former agency head Scott Pruitt, who resigned in disgrace after a scandal...

Toxic Chemicals
BPA
Food & Water

Landmark BPA Study Finds Troubling Health Effects at FDA’s ‘Safe’ Levels

A groundbreaking new study, the first to test what happens in people immediately after they are exposed to bisphenol A, or BPA, shows that levels at which the federal government states is “safe” and...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

Trump Admin. Seeks Reversal of Court Order to Ban Pesticide That Harms Kids’ Brains

Despite a federal court order to ban a pesticide that damages children's brains, the Trump administration is stubbornly fighting to keep it legal – further evidence that the administration places the...

Children’s Health
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food
Food

Massive Study Finds Eating Organic Slashes Cancer Risks

Eating organic foods free from pesticides is strongly correlated with a dramatic reduction in the risk of cancer, according to a groundbreaking study published today in an American Medical Association...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Energy

Trump Rollback of Clean Power Plan Means More Childhood Asthma, Premature Deaths

President Trump's rollback of the Clean Power Plan is not just a foolish failure of leadership on climate change, but another attack on public health that will trigger more asthma attacks among...

Research

PBDEs - Fire Retardants in Dust

In the first nationwide tests for brominated fire retardants in house dust, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found unexpectedly high levels of these neurotoxic chemicals in every home sampled. The average level of brominated fire retardants measured in dust from nine homes was more than 4,600 parts per billion (ppb). A tenth sample, collected in a home where products with fire retardants were
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture

Days After Calif. Farmworkers Sickened by Pesticide Drift, EPA Delays Safety Rule

Last week the Trump administration decided to delay a rule meant to ensure that the most dangerous pesticides are applied safely. This came just days after farmworkers were made sick from exposure to...

Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

Nationally Recognized Integrative Health Expert Karen Malkin Joins EWG Board of Directors

Karen Malkin, a leading integrative health coach and lifestyle practitioner, has joined the EWG board of directors, further raising the group's profile as the nation's leading nonprofit research...

Midwest
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water

EWG: Trump’s Proposed Cuts to EPA, USDA Are ‘Nothing But Bad News’ For Farmers and Other Rural Americans

President Trump's proposed budget would slash vital programs at the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Agriculture that help farmers and rural communities reduce their exposure to farm...

Research

Obstruction of Justice

A new investigation by Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the National Black Farmers' Association (NBFA) finds that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) willfully obstructed justice by deliberately undermining the terms of a 1999 landmark civil rights settlement with African American farmers. As a result, the vast majority of African American farmers have been denied compensation
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: USDA Conservation Program for Sensitive Cropland Wastes Billions of Tax Dollars

A critical flaw in the Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program is not only its failure to provide lasting protection for environmentally sensitive land, but also its wasting of...