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Johnson & Johnson To Revamp Ingredients In Personal Care Products
Johnson & Johnson, one of the world's largest personal care product companies, has announced a groundbreaking new initiative to reformulate many of its personal care products, including baby shampoos...
EWG, NRDC Sue to Protect Millions of Californians from Contaminated Drinking Water
The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group today sued the California Department of Public Health for failing to protect millions of Californians from hexavalent chromium...
Congress Approves Health Care for Camp Lejeune Vets, Families
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a bipartisan bill that provides health benefits to veterans and their families exposed to contaminated drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune...
Flame Retardants Targeted by Senate Environment Committee
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today scrutinized a failed federal law that has allowed toxic flame retardants to be widely used in consumer products.
EWG Celebrates 13 Women Scientists in 2013 Women’s History Month
March is Women's History Month, when the nation honors the many women who have had a lasting impact on American culture, history and women's rights.
Meet the Farmers of Manhattan
A 52-story skyscraper on Park Avenue in New York City is the world headquarters for JPMorganChase, the largest bank in the U.S. But according to data from the Department of Agriculture, it's also the...
EWG’s Most Popular Stories of 2018 – and Some You May Have Missed
Another 12 months is just about in the books. It was full of moments that impacted health and the environment in a variety of ways. From clean water to Kavanaugh, from Pruitt to “poop lagoons,” EWG...
16 Effective and Safe Products To Guard Against Coronavirus
You can combat the novel coronavirus effectively while using products that are safe for you and your family.
It’s Time To Switch to PFAS-Free Firefighting Foams
Firefighting foam is one of the most significant sources of water contamination from the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS. PFAS-based firefighting foams have been widely used by the military...
Mississippi River Flood Management Could Cause Another Devastating Gulf Coast Toxic Algae Bloom This Year
The Army Corps of Engineers just opened a huge flood management structure to relieve the swollen Mississippi River, which could cause a recurrence of a huge toxic algae bloom along the Gulf Coast...
Keeping Kids Safe from Toxic Algae
Outbreaks of potentially toxic algae are fouling lakes, rivers and other bodies of water across the U.S. Nationally, news reports on algae outbreaks have been on the rise since 2010.
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...
EPA May Regulate Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water
Making good on Administrator Lisa Jackson's confirmation promise, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving ahead with its deliberations on whether to impose the first national limits on...
California Proposes Nation’s First Limit on “Erin Brockovich” Chemical
After more than a decade of fighting an across-the-board industry campaign, the California government has finally announced proposed health guidelines for the deadly cancer-causing chemical hexavalent...
House Committee Sets Deadline for BPA Decision
In a rare move, the House Energy and Commerce Committee directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to finalize its safety determination over the controversial toxic plastics additive, bisphenol A...
Washington Lobbyists Connive to Kill California Public Health Bill
Last Thursday, chemical and food industry lobbyists called an emergency brainstorming session to devise an attack plan to stop a California legislative proposal for a virtual ban on the toxic plastics...
EWG Debunks Corn Ethanol Lobby's Push for Clean Air Act Waiver
The corn ethanol industry is misrepresenting scientific facts in efforts to dupe the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into waiving critical public health protections for the sake of boosting...
BPA Levels in Adults Up 70 Percent After Drinking From Plastic Bottles
Seventy-seven Harvard student volunteers experienced a nearly 70 percent increase in urinary levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a plastics component and synthetic estrogen linked to cancer, reproductive...
Cutting Conservation Programs No Way to Fight Global Warming
President Obama's proposed budget continues the long string of broken promises that have left conservation programs billions short over the past two farm bills. While the White House and the US...
EWG Commentary on SCOPE Biofuels Report
The following is commentary from Environmental Working Group Midwest Vice President Craig Cox regarding today's release of a Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) report on...
USGS Identifies Top Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Polluting Watersheds
For the first time, the U.S. Geological Survey has identified the top 150 polluting watersheds in the Mississippi River Basin that cause the annual 8,000 square-mile “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico...
Bush Moves to Okay Toxic Teflon Pollution in Tap Water
In its final days, the Bush administration appears poised to issue an emergency health advisory for tap water polluted with the toxic Teflon chemical PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) effectively allowing...
Time for Ethanol to Stand on Its Own
There is a growing consensus in the environmental community that federal government subsidies and mandates for corn-based ethanol have produced unintended, yet potentially catastrophic environmental...
Historic Date, Historic Mess
For a quarter century, environmentalists, farmers, and government officials from six states have relied on sporadic, “random acts of conservation” to mitigate the unintended damage these agriculture...