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Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

Hearing on "Perchlorate: Health and Environmental Impacts of Unregulated Exposure"

A series of critical new studies by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the EPA's proposed safe exposure level for the rocket fuel contaminant perchlorate is...
Research

CDC: Americans Carry Body Burden of Toxic Sunscreen Chemical

A new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reveals that 97% of Americans are contaminated with a widely-used sunscreen ingredient called oxybenzone that has been linked to allergies, hormone disruption, and cell damage. A companion study published just one day earlier revealed that this chemical is linked to low birth weight in baby girls whose mothers are exposed during pregnancy

Farming & Agriculture

Black Farmers Finally See Justice

Yesterday (Nov 19) it was announced that the $1.15 billion awarded black farmers in the Pigford settlement that arose from decades of discriminatory practices at the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Chemical Policy

Calif. Officials Honored for Efforts to Protect Public Health and Environment

Six dedicated public servants will be honored tonight in San Francisco for their shared commitment to protecting the health and environment of Californians.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

Throwing Good Money at Bad Land

A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis has found that a federal Bureau of Reclamation proposal to continue farming on a vast swath of selenium-tainted acreage in the Central Valley's giant...
Arsenic
Chromium-6
Household & Consumer Products

EPA poised to send known carcinogen back to the public

On January 19, EPA will decide whether or not to allow unrestricted use of the potent human carcinogen chromium-6 in a wood preservative known as ACC (acid copper chromate), for lumber sold at the...
Research

Asbestos Still A Public Health Tragedy; Congress Taking Action

Asbestos kills an estimated 10,000 people in the United States each year, and the number of deaths is increasing. More people die from asbestos diseases annually than from skin cancer, or from fires, drowning, and Hodgkins disease combined. Asbestos mortality is not expected to peak until around 2020, and will continue for decades as exposures from products in use today as well as deteriorating
Household & Consumer Products

Harvard Professor Cleared of Ethics Charges is Million Dollar Donor

A Harvard Medical School professor recently cleared by a Harvard ethics panel of charges that he suppressed critical research findings made a million dollar contribution to the University's Dental...
Food

FDA Finds High Benzene Levels in Limited Test of Drinks

Today FDA announced it found high levels of benzene in several samples in a test of a small number of sodas and juice drinks.
Toxic Chemicals
Chromium-6
Food & Water
Water

JOEM Retracts Fradulent Chromium Article

In a real-life epilogue to "Erin Brockovich," a peer-reviewed medical journal will retract a fraudulent article written and placed by a science-for-hire consulting firm whose CEO sits on a key federal...
Farm Subsidies

Bonus Subsidy 2006

A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis identifies and posts online prospective recipients of a pending $1.5 billion crop subsidy bonus that is contained in an emergency spending bill the...
Food

FDA Data Undercut Public Safety Assurances by Top Agency Official

Letter to the FDA regarding benzene in soft drinks with compilation of data from 1995-2001 study.
Toxic Chemicals
Cookware & Food Containers

Former DuPont Top Expert: Company Knew, Covered Up Pollution of Americans' Blood for 18 Years

Breakdown chemicals from DuPont coatings and related sources are now in the blood of 95 percent of Americans, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spent the last several years trying to...
Energy

BLM Steamrolls Public on Otero Mesa

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) next month will release 250,000-acres for oil and gas development in the heart of New Mexico's Otero Mesa — despite strong local opposition from the governor, the...
Toxic Chemicals
Children’s Health

EWG Supports Proposed Toxics Legislation

The legislation, entitled the "Kids-Safe Chemicals Act of 2005," contains much-needed fundamental reforms of TSCA, the nation's notoriously weak chemical safety law. TSCA has not been reformed in...
Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture

U.S. Reps. Solis and Bishop Propose Ban on EPA Support for Pesticide Experiments on People

As Congress prepares to vote on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget for the next year, U.S. Representatives Hilda Solis of California and Tim Bishop of New York will introduce an...
Chemical Policy

Congress to Chemical Industry: You’re Under Investigation

The powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee today launched a landmark investigation into the chemical industry lobby group, The American Chemistry Council (ACC). In a letter to ACC President Jack...
Toxic Chemicals
Conservation

DIRTY AIR A CAUSE OF DEATH FOR MORE THAN 9,300 CALIFORNIANS

Pollution from airborne soot and dust causes or contributes to the deaths of more Californians than traffic accidents, homicide and AIDS combined, according to a new report released today by...
Research

Washington Post Wrong

On Oct. 4, The Washington Post had a scoop: According to a front-page story by Sally Squires, a new report by “top scientists from private groups and federal agencies,” advised pregnant and breast-feeding women to eat at least 12 ounces of fish a week “to ensure their babies' optimal brain development.”
Arsenic
Household & Consumer Products

News Release

Nationwide sampling in 13 metropolitan areas found harmful levels of cancer-causing arsenic on the surface of "pressure-treated" wood purchased at Home Depot and Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse...
Farm Subsidies

News Release

Congress is expected to approve an additional $5.5 billion in emergency farm aid today, the fourth straight year it has been forced to supplement a 1996 law that was intended to end farm supports. But...
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

Report Cites Danger of Arsenic in Wood

The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) announced today that it has filed legal notice to sue the manufacturers of wooden playground equipment treated with arsenic.
Food

OTA: ABC planned apology does not go far enough

The Organic Trade Association (OTA) today said ABC News intentions to announce a brief token apology on Friday's 20/20 falls far short of what the network must do to make amends to the organic...
Food & Water

EWG Press Release

The watchdog group that forced John Stossel's on-air apology for an erroneous story on organic food today asked ABC News to make good on a promise to halt circulation of tapes and transcripts of the...