California’s Fracking Fluids Tell a Bigger Story
Although hydraulic fracturing for oil has gone on for decades in California and half a million Californians live within a mile of a fracked well, the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal...
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EPA Isn’t Protecting Americans from Monsanto’s Roundup
The Environmental Protection Agency is falling short in its duty to protect Americans from the dangers of glyphosate, the most widely used weed killer in agriculture, according to a scientific review...
Study Shows Monsanto’s Roundup Can Harm Fetuses
When mothers were exposed to glyphosate – the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup weed killer – during pregnancy, their babies weighed less at birth, according to inital data from an ongoing study.
Monsanto’s and Dow’s Herbicides = More Toxic Exposures for Farmworkers
More than 90 percent of Americans want GMOs to be labeled because they want the right to know what's in their food. One important reason to be informed is that growing GMOs has led to a massive...
Farmers Spray Staggering Amounts of Monsanto’s Roundup
More than 3.5 billion pounds of glyphosate herbicide have been sprayed in the U.S. since it first hit the market as Monsanto's “Roundup” in 1974, according to a paper published today by agricultural...
EWG News Roundup (11/9): Voters Turn Back Trump’s Polluter Agenda, Eating Organic Slashes Cancer Risk, and More
EWG News Roundup (11/9): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Required conservation practices poorly monitored, farmers consistently denied conservation money, large farms continue to reap l
As the five major commodity crops reap billions in taxpayer dollars each year, nearly 70 percent of farmer requests for voluntary conservation assistance go unfunded and soil erosion rules for subsidy...
EWG Statement on Reassignment of Chief of NIH Environmental Institute
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Executive Director Richard Wiles issued the following statement today in response to the decision by the head of the National Institute of Environmental Health...
Plan to Add Fluoride to Southern California Tap Water will put 64,000 Kids at Risk
More than 64,000 children a day in Southern California will be exposed to an unsafe dose of fluoride when the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) begins adding fluoride to drinking water in October...
Report: More Than 800 New Mining Claims Crowd Border of Grand Canyon National Park
A report released by the Environmental Working Group today shows an 80 percent increase in uranium, gold and other mining claims in 12 western states over the past five years, including an explosion...
U.S. Health Panel Ignores Science on Food-Packaging Chemical
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Senior Scientist Dr. Anila Jacob, MD, MPH, issued the following statement in response to the decision by a government sponsored panel to largely ignore wide ranging...
Widening Farm Subsidy Gap Is Leaving Black Farmers Further Behind
Black farmers receive between one-third to one-sixth of the benefits under major federal crop subsidy programs that other farmers receive, and the “subsidy gap” has widened over the past decade.
Conflict of Interest Still Looms Over NIH Contractor
After the Environmental Working Group (EWG) revealed that contractor Sciences International (SI) worked for companies who made chemicals under review by the agency, NIH let the company conduct its own...
Chemical Linked to Birth Defects Found at Unsafe Levels in Canned Food
In the most comprehensive U.S. tests for an industrial chemical used to line cans of foods, an independent laboratory found a compound linked to birth defects in more than half of the samples of...
Chemical Industry Consultant Runs Federal Reproductive Health Agency
A federal agency that evaluates the causes of birth defects and other reproductive problems is run by a consulting firm with ties to companies that make chemicals the agency is charged with reviewing...
EWG Research Shows 22 Percent of All Cosmetics May Be Contaminated With Cancer-Causing Impurity
Many of the cosmetic industry's chemical safety assessments reveal that common petroleum-based cosmetic ingredients can be contaminated with a cancer-causing impurity called 1,4-dioxane.
Uranium fever fuels new land rush: mining claims on US public lands up 47%
Driven by soaring prices for uranium and other metals, and aided by an antiquated federal law, in the last four years mining interests have staked new claims on 2.3 million acres of Western public...
44 Million Women at Risk of Thyroid Deficiency From Rocket Fuel Chemical
A startling new study by the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says minute traces of a toxic rocket fuel chemical found in milk, fruit vegetables and drinking water supplies nationwide lowers...
White House Delays Release of Study Showing Toxic Rocket Fuel in Most Americans
Following a published report that the Bush Administration is holding up a study that shows most Americans carry a toxic rocket fuel chemical in their bodies at levels close to federal safety limits...
Study Hits EPA Plan To Censor Community Pollution Reports
It is the category of industrial chemicals that, by consensus, scientists and government regulators the world over worry most about: substances that persist in the environment, accumulate in wildlife...
ChemRisk's Los Alamos Contract Questioned
Los Alamos Lab contractor caught in scientific fraud: work on chromium contamination conflicts with ties to polluters.
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FDA Food Testing Shows Widespread Rocket Fuel Contamination of Commonly Consumed Foods and Beverages
A study published in January 2008 by scientists from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finds that three quarters of nearly 300 commonly consumed foods and beverages are contaminated with perchlorate, a toxic rocket fuel ingredient (Murray et al 2008). EWG analysis of these results finds that the levels of perchlorate in food potentially put the health of millions of children at risk.
Mining Measure Six Feet Under
Reps. Richard Pombo (R-CA) and Jim Gibbons (R-NV) have pulled mining legislation from the House budget bill that could have sold off 350 million acres of American public lands.
House Votes Today on Budget Package Including Worst Land Grab in American History (10 Nov 2005)
The House of Representatives votes today on a federal spending bill with language from Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) that will let foreign mining companies, real estate speculators, oil and mining...