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Loving those tasty spring holiday candies? Look out for harmful ingredients
Spring holidays are almost here and stores are flush with popular Easter- and Passover-themed sweets, but beware, some candies often contain chemicals that can harm your health.
Gov. Newsom’s gas price penalty proposal targeting Big Oil sails through Senate
California’s Senate today passed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to give state energy regulators the authority to punish Big Oil refiners for hiking gas prices in the future.
Serve up healthy mornings at home with EWG’s top organic cereal choices
Breakfast is, for many people, their most important meal. What you choose to eat first thing can set the tone for the rest of the day. Often we don’t have to time cook a big breakfast, let alone sit...
EWG news roundup (8/12): NAS urges EPA to look into risks of sunscreen UV filters, 'Erin Brockovich’ chemical spill in Michigan and more
EWG news roundup (8/12): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
Scorching heat and historic drought threaten California’s electric grid, showing need for more rooftop solar
Temperatures are soaring in much of central California – above 100 degrees in places – and the resulting higher demand on the electricity grid could cause blackouts.
EWG news roundup (8/19): Newly signed IRA includes $20B for climate conservation spending, chemists develop new method for destroying PFAS and more
EWG news roundup (8/19): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG applauds future leaders of environmental and public health advocacy
The Environmental Working Group just completed its latest summer as a partner in the Stanback Fellowship Program through Duke University, which provides undergraduate students for internships in...
California ban on gas cars will require far more rooftop solar for EV charging
The Golden State on Thursday is expected to announce it will ban all new gasoline-powered automobiles by 2035, according to press reports.
We must expand – and reform – the USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program
It’s good news the Inflation Reduction Act will invest $20 billion to reward farmers when they take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Pregnant with PFAS: The threat of ‘forever chemicals’ in cord blood
The developing fetus faces a threat from the harmful “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in their umbilical cord, a new Environmental Working Group science review finds.
Honeywell lobbying Gov. Newsom to veto measure banning ‘forever chemicals’ from cosmetics products
Technology giant Honeywell is lobbying California Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto a bill that would ban the sale in the state of cosmetics intentionally made with the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS...
EPA hazardous substance proposal holds ‘forever chemicals’ polluters accountable
The Environmental Working Group applauds the Environmental Protection Agency for today proposing to designate the two most commonly detected toxic “forever chemicals” as hazardous substances under the...
Tampon shortage: Beware ‘forever chemicals’ in backup options
First there was a baby formula shortage, bare shelves where there should have been rows of packages. Now there’s a tampon supply problem – and publications from the New York Times and Sacramento Bee...
EWG statement on Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization erasing safeguards on women’s health
EWG exists to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, effectively imposing bans on abortion that will come into...
EWG: Plan to crush California rooftop solar ignores ‘sound alternatives, violates state and federal law’
Environmental Working Group in new comments is blasting a plan by California’s investor-owned utilities and regulators to impose a steep tax on residential solar, saying the plan ignores clean energy...
Cooking with plants: get your hands dirty with protein
Diving into creative ways to cook all plant foods, rather than just one type, can be an ideal start. But years of teaching people how to cook made me realize: Most people struggle with plant protein...
Dozens of Coast Guard bases could be contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
At least 24 Coast Guard bases across the U.S. are now suspected of contamination by the toxic fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, according to EWG’s updated analysis of records from the...
Trump EPA ignored own guidelines by dismissing cancer risks for widely used pesticide, Inspector General finds
During the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency officials downgraded the agency’s long-held position that a widely used pesticide could give people cancer, the EPA’s internal watchdog...
Senate bill to make historic climate-focused conservation investments
The Environmental Working Group today applauds Senate leaders for including more than $20 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act to tackle a growing backlog of requests from farmers seeking U.S...
EWG statement on FY23 defense appropriations language expanding plant-based meal choices within the military
The following is a statement from Geoff Horsfield, the Environmental Working Group’s government affairs manager, on expansion of dietary choices for service members in the draft 2023 Department of...
EWG news roundup (7/29): Mapping Western Lake Erie Basin AFOs, billions of dollars in landmark Senate deal to fight climate crisis, and more
EWG news roundup (7/29): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
EPA ‘hazardous substances’ designation delay threatens progress on ‘forever chemicals’
The Environmental Protection Agency is behind schedule on releasing a proposal for designating as hazardous substances two of the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. The delay threatens federal...
Dogs still not safe from toxic algae blooms in 2022
EWG’s annual tracking of algae bloom news reports finds more than 400 stories already this year, and further proof that toxic algae can be deadly for dogs.
Gov. Newsom vetoes California bill to track and report toxic ‘forever chemicals’
On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required collection and reporting of information on products and substances sold or brought into the state containing the toxic “forever...
