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California

Sweeping reforms at PG&E vital to lower electricity bills, mitigate wildfire threats and embrace renewables, EWG probe finds

Pacific Gas & Electric, the monopoly California utility with a long and sordid history of wasteful spending, fleecing ratepayers, hindering clean energy equity and rampant negligence that has...
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Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Defense Communities

It’s time to end the use of ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting ‘turnout gear’

What happens if life-saving equipment also poisons your body? Ask a firefighter – it’s been happening to them for the past half-century.
Firefighter uniforms
Food & Water
Food
Meat and Dairy Alternatives
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Plant-centered food lifestyle 101 and how your choices at home can help

Find out where you fall on the plant-centered food lifestyle continuum. Do you eat only plants? Or perhaps you mostly consume meat and dairy and only occasionally plant-based food.
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

EPA must prioritize funds to meet PFAS ‘Roadmap’ deadlines

Environmental groups today sent a letter urging Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan to prioritize funds for meeting deadlines in its “Roadmap” for tackling the “forever...
Food & Water
Food
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PFAS Chemicals

PFAS resources

Sixty years since the chemical industry knew of its dangers, more and more is being uncovered about the scope and risks of the PFAS contamination crisis. Here is a curated list of resources that detail the explosive history of “forever chemicals.”
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Food & Water
Food

Cooking Through Winter's Bitter Bounty

When the weather turns, the days get shorter and it's time to get out the winter clothes, it's also high season for the Brassicaceae, or mustard family, on your family's dinner table.
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

EPA data show almost 900 ‘forever chemical’ foam releases, many into local waterways

Data newly released by the Environmental Protection Agency show almost 900 spills or uses of firefighting foam made with the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS across the U.S. and the amount that...
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health

EWG applauds House bill to ramp up FDA scrutiny of infant formula manufacturers

The Environmental Working Group applauds much-needed legislation introduced today to increase the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of infant formula safety and supply, after the crisis that...
Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies

EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning: How did we do it?

What's in those bottles on top of my washing machine and under my sink? We've been asked that question thousands of times - especially by fans of EWG's Skin Deep database, who value our brand of...
Chemical Policy
BPA

BPA and... Wait for It... Breast Cancer

DeSmog Blog published a piece last week about a new study linking in utero exposure to the notorious bisphenol-A to breast cancer.
Change the Code, Not the Climate

Climate groups to bitcoin: Cut the pollution, and the B.S.

As ethereum, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, dramatically cuts its climate pollution, environmental groups have intensified pressure on bitcoin to meet or beat ethereum’s environmental...
Ethereum coin

EWG news roundup (9/16): Pesticides found in kids’ fruit snacks, cryptocurrency ethereum makes the move to 99.95 percent less energy and more

EWG news roundup (9/16): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG weekly news roundup
Change the Code, Not the Climate

EWG applauds cryptocurrency energy use oversight provision in Senate digital assets bill

The Environmental Working Group today applauds Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), chairwoman of the Senate agriculture committee, Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.), the ranking member, and Sens. Cory Booker (D...
Crypto mine
Water
Toxic Chemicals
Lead
California

California city water agencies fight legislative effort to set strict health safeguards for lead pipeline replacements

The Environmental Working Group is urging California lawmakers to pass a strong bill to ensure safe and quick replacements of lead-contaminated pipelines, and oppose a loophole allowing the work to be...

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Sunscreen

"The EWG list of best sunscreens can't be beat in my opinion."

Late last week, news outlets began reporting that the Federal Communications Commission was considering revising its cell phone radiation testing methods - for the first time in 15 years. Early this...
Food & Water
Water
Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Conservation

For farmers, historic $20 billion climate spending could save more than the planet

Historic $20 billion spending, in the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, to reduce greenhouse gases from agriculture could not only save the planet, it might also help preserve the good will most...

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Regional Issues
California

California proclaims October Children’s Environmental Health Month

On Thursday, the California state legislature formally proclaimed October 2022 Children’s Environmental Health Month. The proclamation is intended to raise awareness about the importance of protecting...
Energy
Utilities
Federal & State Energy Policy
Fossil & Nuclear
Regional Issues
California

PG&E asks federal regulators to extend life of aging, dangerous Diablo Canyon nuclear plant

Pacific Gas & Electric is formally asking the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to extend the life of California’s only remaining nuclear power plant – the dangerous, aging and costly Diablo...
Diablo Canyon power plant
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

New tests find toxic “forever chemicals” in pet food bags and baby textiles

The toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS have been found in pet food packaging and textile products made for babies and toddlers, according to new Environmental Working Group test results.
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EWG news roundup (11/4): PFAS found in pet food packaging and baby textiles, EWG calls for windfall profit tax for oil industry and more

EWG news roundup (11/4): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
EWG weekly news roundup

Investor Data For 20 Years Shows CA Oil Refiners Tripled Their Average Annual Profits In 2022

October 20, 2022

Investor data shows oil companies tripled their profits
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

California sues manufacturers like 3M and DuPont over toxic ‘forever chemicals’

On November 10, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against chemical companies like 3M and DuPont for endangering public health and harming and destroying the state’s natural...
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Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Toxic Chemicals

How ‘multitasking’ preservatives might help to make cosmetics safer

The lack of preservation in cosmetics has a notorious history – in just one instance, four women were almost permanently blinded in 1977 because the chemicals failed to keep their mascara clean and...

Exposures add up – Survey results

A personal care product use survey of more than 2,300 people, conducted by EWG and a coalition of public interest and environmental health organizations, shows that the average adult uses 9 personal...