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EWG Investigates: Trump’s Agriculture Nominee Brings the Swamp to Washington
‘Forever Chemicals’ in Milk: EWG Tests All Negative, But More Food Testing Needed
Trump Rollback of Auto Emissions Standards = 1 Billion More Tons of Air Pollution
Today the Trump administration is set to release a final rule rolling back auto fuel efficiency standards, which will let cars and light trucks emit 1 billion more tons, or more, of carbon pollution...
Wind Power, Not Oil Drilling, Is Future of Offshore Energy
In an era of bitterly divisive politics, there's one thing that unites Democrats and Republicans across the nation: They oppose Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's proposal to allow offshore drilling for...
EWG Analysis: Loophole Could Exempt Over 10,000 GMO Foods from Disclosure Law
Clean Air Regulations Protect Health and Benefit the Economy
The Trump administration is waging war on the laws meant to protect Americans from air pollution, arguing that rolling back regulations on coal-fired power plants, cars and trucks, and other sources...
About EWG’s Jonas Initiative for Children's Environmental Health
Many Farmers Seeking Conservation Help Get Turned Away
Blue-Green Algae Threaten Human Health and Aquatic Ecosystems Nationwide
Keeping Up With the New Kardashian Beauty Products
House Farm Bill: Bad for Taxpayers, Hungry Families, and the Environment
Environmental Working Group joined anti-hunger, public health, labor, and animal welfare groups at the National Press Club to voice deep concerns with the recently passed House Agriculture Committee...
Taxpayers Paid $6.1 Million in Farm Subsidies to Members of Congress, Families
Environmental Working Group's latest update of the EWG farm subsidy database shows that 23 members of Congress, or their family members, benefitted from $6,140,634 in taxpayer-funded farm subsidy...
Drillers Got Inside Track on N.Y. Fracking Rules
New York regulators granted natural gas industry representatives exclusive access to shale gas drilling regulations as early as six weeks before they were made public, according to documents obtained...
One Million Americans to Fight Industry Efforts to Kill Clean Energy Agenda
Fed up with the undue influence of the energy companies, utilities, lobbyists and other interests that are making it impossible for Washington to move forward decisively in achieving America's clean...
Senate Adopts Common Sense Reform to Crop Insurance Subsidies
Environmental Working Group released this statement on the passage of the Coburn-Durbin amendment to reduce premium subsidies by 15 percent for farm businesses with adjusted gross incomes of more than...
FDA to Ban BPA from Infant Formula
The federal Food and Drug Administration has informed Rep. Edward M. Markey (D-MA) that it is beginning a process that could end the use of the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in infant...
Healthy Food, California Get Short Shrift in Farm Bill
EWG statement on Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012
Statement of Craig Cox, Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources of the Environmental Working Group, on the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012: “A farm bill that cuts...
Poor Farming Practices Foul Drinking Water at the Source
Ad Campaign Targets Farm Bill Conservation Cuts
WASHINGTON – Some lawmakers have made clear that they intend to cut 7 million acres protected under the Conservation Reserve Program from the next farm bill. Congress has cut other critical...
Senate Votes to Bar Farm Subsidies to Millionaires
The U.S. Senate voted 84-15 last night to deny farm subsidy payments to millionaires.
EPA Ruling Backs Camp Lejeune Victims
The Environmental Protection Agency has handed a major victory to veterans, civilian workers and families who resided at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina when its drinking water was polluted with the...
Cosmetic Industry Declares Formaldehyde In Hair Products Unsafe
The mainstream cosmetics industry has, for the first time, declared formaldehyde unsafe at any level in hair straighteners.
Obama’s Debt Reduction Plan Would Eliminate Wasteful Farm Subsidies
Kenneth A. Cook, president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group, has applauded President Obama's plan to reform the nation's wasteful agriculture policy in his drive to reduce the nation's...