EWG News Roundup (1/11): Trump EPA Walks Back Youth Pesticide Proposal, Coal Miners Turn Their Back on the President and More
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EWG News Roundup (10/2): California Cosmetics Bill Signed Into Law, Algae Beach Closures and More
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EWG news roundup (2/3): Updated Farm Subsidy Database, FDA creates new role to address food safety failures and more
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EWG Testimony on Exploring Current Practices in Cosmetics Development and Safety
The cosmetics industry has grown dramatically since 1938, when Congress last enacted cosmetics legislation. While most chemicals in cosmetics pose little or no risk, some chemicals have been linked to...
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Setting the Record Straight
EWG's response to a pesticide industry-funded 'critique' of their report Tap Water Blues, which documented public health risks from drinking water contaminated with herbicides.
EWG news roundup (9/24): Key PFAS provisions included in Department of Defense spending bill, coalition calls for Toyota to drop opposition to Biden EV plan and more
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Risks of Plastic Chemical Add Up for Infants
Statement of Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Environmental Working Group to the National Research Council Meeting 2 – Committee on the Health Risks of Phthalates
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...
Bottled Water Lobby’s Misinformation Campaign
Yesterday, the lobby group for the bottled water industry used untruths, misleading statements and claims that were outright wrong in its attempt to dispel a study by Environmental Working Group (EWG)...
EWG News Roundup (7/5): Lead Contaminates California Schools, Billions To Bail Out Nuke Energy and More
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Going, Going, Gone!
Across America's heartland, in county after county and state after state, the landscape-devouring machinery of modern agriculture has been churning through millions of acres of irreplaceable wetlands and fragile, highly erodible grassland and prairie.
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Fire Retardants in Toddlers and Their Mothers
In thehe first investigation of toxic fire retardants in parents and their children, EWG found that toddlers and preschoolers typically had 3 times as much of these hormone-disrupting chemicals in their blood as their mothers.
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U.S. Sunscreens Get Flunking Grade for UVA Protection
Fall is the iconic American season. Football. Soccer. Cross-country meets. Apple-picking. Hiking through forests blazing red and orange. Bicycling in crisp country air. Raking the leaves. Hayrides. Pumpkin patches. School fairs.
Proposed federal fluoride cap too high
EWG comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urging the federal government to further lower its recommendation for fluoride levels in drinking water.
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Timeline: BPA from Invention to Phase-Out
BPA was invented nearly 120 years ago and currently used in enormous amounts to manufacture hard plastic water bottles and to make epoxy linings of metal food cans, like those for canned infant formula. Stuides conducted over the past 20 years now show it to be not only a ubiquitous pollutant in the human body - it contaminates nearly 93% of the population - but also a potent developmental toxin
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Dioxin
After nearly 30 years of delays caused by pressure from chemicals and defense industries, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward on setting a safety limit for exposure to dioxin, a ubiquitous, highly toxic and carcinogenic chemical that people of all ages ingest daily with their food – starting at a mother's breast.
EWG News Roundup (10/4): PFAS Taints Military Bases, California Adopts Law To Protect People From Lead in Jewelry, and More
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EWG News Roundup (12/16): Michelle Pfeiffer Joins Board and EWG Sues FDA
Some of the biggest news to come out of EWG since its inception more than 22 years ago happened this week, and it wasn't a consumer guide or big policy win. Golden Globe winner, three-time Academy...
EWG News Roundup (5/25): Best Sunscreens to Buy, Teflon-Like Chemicals in Water of 110 Million Americans and More
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EWG News Roundup (10/11): California Bans Brain Damaging Pesticide, Algae Blooms Across U.S. Swell in 2019 and More
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PFAS Contamination of Drinking Water Far More Prevalent Than Previously Reported
New laboratory tests commissioned by EWG have for the first time found the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities, including major metropolitan areas. The results confirm that the number of Americans exposed to PFAS from contaminated tap water has been dramatically underestimated by previous studies, both from the Envirionmental Protection Agency
EWG News Roundup (8/10): Asbestos Still Legal, Court Rejects Rollback of Chlorpyrifos Ban and More
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Exposing Fields of Filth in North Carolina
North Carolina boasts the nation's second biggest hog farming industry, worth $3 billion in hog and pig sales in 2012 alone, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It ranks third among the states for poultry production.
EWG Letter to EPA
Download PDF file. July 7, 2008 Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P) Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. Washington, DC 20460-0001 Regarding...