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Federal & State Energy Policy

Biden’s Choice of Granholm for Energy Secretary Heralds Shift to Clean, Renewable Sources

President-elect Joe Biden's pick of former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to be energy secretary signals a commitment to the clean energy revolution – a sharp contrast to the Trump administration's...

Conflict of Interest: Minn. Official Tied to 3M Drags Feet on Teflon Testing

EWG sent this letter to Sheryl Corrigan, Commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. A Minnesota Public Radio investigation raised concerns about Corrigan's priorities with regard to 3M...

EPA Needs to Set Enforceable Standards for Currently Unregulated Drinking Water Pollutants

Comments to the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board (SAB), Public Teleconference on the EPA SAB Drinking Water Committee report on EPA's draft Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate...
Chromium-6

In an email to the JOEM editorial board

The following email was sent by JOEM editor Paul Brandt-Rauf to the members of the Journal's Editorial Board via Managing editor Marjory Spraycar. From: Paul Brandt-Rauf Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006...

EWG Letter to Infant Formula Manufacturers

Background. BPA is a toxic plastics chemical that leaches from the lining of metal food cans, including infant formula cans. Based on limited data from an FDA testing program of infant formula (14...
Energy

Statement of Dusty Horwitt, JD at Oversight Hearing on Hardrock Mining on Federal Land

Before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. Public Lands Analyst Environmental Working Group Submitted for the Record Background Mr. Chairman...
Farm Subsidies

Statement: Washington Post "Backward in the Senate"

Charles Lane uncorked this beaut last week, after the Dorgan-Grassley and Klobuchar amendments went down. It's a fitting contribution to the legacy of the late Peter Milius, who roared on the Post's...
Phthalates

Risks of Plastic Chemical Add Up for Infants

Statement of Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Environmental Working Group to the National Research Council Meeting 2 – Committee on the Health Risks of Phthalates

FDA should adopt EPA tap water health goals as enforceable limits for bottled water

Regarding proposed amendment of 21 CFR Parts 129 and 165 Docket No. FDA-2008-N-0446 Download as PDF file. Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a non-profit health and environmental research and...

Infant Formula Companies Should Come Clean on Melamine, BPA

Download the letter PDF version. Stephen W. Golsby President, Mead Johnson & Company 2400 W. Lloyd Expressway Evansville, IN 47721 Re: Melamine in baby formula Dear Mr. Golsby, We are concerned about...

EWG and Allies Urge Defeat of Biofuels Green House Gas Analysis Exemption

American Bird Conservancy * Center for Biological Diversity * Clean Air Task Force Clean Water Action * Defenders of Wildlife * Environment America * Environmental Working Group * Environmental...

EWG to FDA: Halt All Use of Deca-Laced Plastic Food Pallets

Dr. Margaret Hamburg Commissioner U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Ave WO1-3339 Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002 Re: Use of Deca in plastic food pallets Dear Dr. Hamburg...
Regional Issues
California

California Urged To Add Bisphenol-A (BPA) To Prop 65 Toxics List

Oral testimony of Bill Allayaud, Director of Government Affairs, California Office, Environmental Working Group before the meeting of California Office of Environmental Health and Hazard Assessment's...
Mercury

EWG's letter to EPA

The Honorable Stephen L. Johnson Administrator Environmental Protection Agency Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.. Washington, DC 20460 Dear Administrator Johnson: In 2005, EPA and the...
Mercury

Mercury Memo

Like lead, mercury is toxic to the developing brain. It blocks the natural formation and migration of nerve cells and alters brain growth and development. The fetus is most vulnerable to mercury and...
Research

Do As We Say, Not As We Do

In the five years before electricity deregulation, California utilities cut funding in half for programs that save energy, save customers money, and help save the environment. According to an analysis of federal data by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), the wasted energy would supply a year's worth of power to more than 600,000 homes, and would have cost California consumers almost $450
Toxic Chemicals
Arsenic

Probabilistic exposure and risk assessment for children who contact CCA-treated wood on playsets and decks and CCA-containing so

Statement by Jane Houlihan, Vice President for Research, Environmental Working Group on the probabilistic exposure and risk assessment for children who contact CCA-treated wood on playsets and decks...
Nanomaterials
Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics
Sunscreen

EWG Comments to FDA on Nano-Scale Ingredients in Cosmetics

EWG submits comments to FDA on the need for a public process to identify and evaluate the safety of nanomaterials in cosmetics. Recommendations to FDA include the need to identify nano-scale materials...
Research

Above the Law in California

Two years after a federal investigation found California's clean air enforcement programs inadequate to stop big polluters, an Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis shows that many of the state's largest industrial facilities continue to break the law and pay fines too small to deter repeat offenses.
Toxic Chemicals
Chromium-6
Food & Water
Water

EWG backs strict California chromium-6 goal

EWG urges California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to set a strict public health goal for hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium-6, a probable carcinogen, and move rapidly to...
California

EWG To New York: Don't Give Drillers Inside Track

Thomas Cluderay, EWG assistant general counsel offers remarks on New York's draft drilling plan on the steps of New York City Hall. He presents information received by EWG revealing that state...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
PFAS Chemicals
Cookware & Food Containers

U.S. Toxics Registry Should Set Exposure Limit For Chemicals in "Teflon" Family

EWG comments that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry draft toxicological profile for perfluoroalkyl compounds lacks risk-based values despite abundant data that the chemical family...
Food & Water

EWG's Ken Cook Lends Support for Washington State's GMO Labeling Initiative

On February 14, 2013, EWG President Ken Cook testified before the Washington State Senate's Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development Committee in support of the state's common-sense ballot...

Asbestos

EWG Letter in Support of Asbestos Ban

Click to download PDF file October 10, 2007 The Honorable Patty Murray United States Senate - Washington Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Barbara Boxer Chair, Committee on Environment and Public...