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EWG News Roundup (12/6): Key PFAS Legislation in Jeopardy, the Trump-Wheeler ‘Red Wedding’ and More

EWG News Roundup (12/6): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Change the Code, Not the Climate
Energy
Federal & State Energy Policy

Why is EWG talking about cryptocurrency and climate change?

Climate change affects almost every aspect of our life. EWG is talking about cryptocurrency because how the industry generates new cryptocurrency and validates those transactions can significantly...

Crypto mine
Toxic Chemicals
Mercury
Food & Water
Food

EWG and 18,000 supporters call for FDA to improve seafood consumption advice for pregnant women and children

EWG and 18,444 EWG supporters ask the Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee to improve new draft advice on seafood consumption during pregnancy and childhood.

Table. Farm subsidies flowing to “city slickers” in the 200 largest metropolitan areas

Metro area

Recipients

Total

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington

6,049

$93,569,871

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin

3,594

$31,655,752

Kansas City, Mo.-Kan.

2,990

$29,564,544

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood

2,865

$36,462,091

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington

2,473

$23,525,917

Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler

2,413

$86,396,310

Lincoln, Neb.

2,301

$28,833,959

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim

2,297

$50,792,170

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Lands

2,204

$26,708,148

Omaha

Chromium-6

Hexavalent Chromium Carcinogenic to Humans: Comments from Environmental Working Group on the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System Toxicological Review for Hexavalent Chromium

June 10, 2014 Re: IRIS Toxicological Review for Hexavalent Chromium; Cr(VI) Docket EPA-HQ-ORD-2014-0313 Environmental Working Group is a research and advocacy nonprofit organization working to protect...

Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Nearly 28,000 Farmers Got USDA Payments for 32 Straight Years, Worth $19 Billion Total

Almost 28,000 U.S. farmers received taxpayer-funded federal farm subsidies or disaster relief payments for 32 straight years, according to a new EWG analysis of data from the Department of Agriculture...
Cleaning Supplies
Toxic Chemicals

Toxic Cleaner Fumes Could Contaminate California Classrooms

Air pollution testing conducted for the Environmental Working Group (EWG) reveals that cleaning supplies used in 13 key California school districts can cloud classroom air with more than 450 distinct...
Farm Subsidies

Farm Policy for the Rest of Us

Kenneth A. Cook Speech to The American Bankers Association Agricultural Bankers Annual Meeting Minneapolis, Minnesota November 16, 2004 "Most people not on the receiving end of farm program payments...
Research

Murky Waters

Forty years after the Clean Water Act became law, the data are clear: Iowa's rivers and streams are still murky. The pollution that continues to degrade them has become a case study on the consequences of the most serious flaw in this historic and otherwise effective federal law: It does little or nothing to address agricultural pollution.
Research

Most California factory farms, close to irrigation canals, threaten U.S. food safety

Almost all of the more than 1,000 large animal feeding operations in California are very close to water sources that are used to irrigate crops, threatening the food supply for the entire country, a new EWG analysis finds. Contaminants commonly found in animal manure, like E. coli and salmonella, can enter these bodies of water, and the water may then be sprayed on food crops such as leafy greens
Animal feeding operation in California
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

13 Ways Pruitt’s EPA Has Made Your Life More Toxic

Today is the first day of an Environmental Protection Agency summit on perfluorinated substances, or PFAS. The group of chemicals is linked to a host of health issues, including cancer, thyroid...

Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

Abandoned: Unsafe ‘forever chemicals’ levels in thousands of drinking water samples near 63 military bases

Across the U.S., the Defense Department has contaminated potentially thousands of private drinking water wells with dangerous amounts of the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. But the DOD has...
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (8/3): Nonstick Chemicals Contaminate Drinking Water, Americans Urge EPA to Ban TCE and More

EWG News Roundup (8/3): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

Congress shouldn’t create a polluter holiday for ‘forever chemicals’

With more than 2,800 contaminated sites across the U.S., pollution from the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS has created an urgent national health crisis. But rather than hold the polluting...
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water

EWG News Roundup (1/25): Unilever Takes a Huge Step Toward Ingredient Transparency, Bipartisan Reps Form PFAS Task Force and More

EWG News Roundup (1/25): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

How American Industry Skips Some Chemical Safety Checks

American industry often avoids the federal government's chemical safety checks in an unexpected way, by relying on chemicals “grandfathered” by the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, according to a...

Toxic Chemicals
BPA
Chromium-6
Perchlorate
Household & Consumer Products
Cell Phones
Children’s Health
Sunscreen
Cosmetics
Energy
Food & Water
Food

Good, Bad and Truly Awful: Top Environmental Stories of 2011

People are messy. So is nature. And what people do when nature unleashes its fury often makes things worse. The staff at Environmental Working Group took a look at the major environmental news stories...
Energy

Statement of Kenneth A. Cook

Statement of Kenneth A. Cook, President, Environmental Working Group before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation on crucial issues surrounding the safety and...
Research

Clearcut Disaster

Almost no one would support massive clear-cutting of America's forests as a way to slow global warming and promote renewable energy. Yet that is precisely what is destined to happen under the incentives created by current and proposed policies, at both the state and federal level.

Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

‘Forever chemicals’ contamination at Defense Department sites threatens Chesapeake Bay fish

The groundwater of at least nine military installations close to the Chesapeake Bay is contaminated with high levels of the toxic fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, according to Department...
Photo of the Bay Bridge in Maryland

EWG News Roundup (1/8): EWG Calls for President Trump’s Removal From Office, PFAS Detected in 100 Ohio Water Systems and More

EWG News Roundup (1/8): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Cell Phones
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG’s News Roundup (12/15): EPA Toxics Nominee Bows Out, Cell Phone Safety in Calif., Pruitt’s “Partnership” with Toyota and More

EWG's News Roundup (12/15): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

Department of Defense fights states over cleanup of toxic ‘forever chemicals’

For years, states have led the way in addressing the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, with six setting strict drinking water limits for the chemicals and at least eight using their power under...

EWG news roundup (12/17): California regulators poised to increase cost of rooftop solar, keeping skin healthy during winter and more

EWG news roundup (12/17): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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