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Farm Subsidies

Senator Chambliss' Agriculture Proposal Would Extend Wasteful Farm Subsidy Programs for 4 Years

In advance of Thursday morning's mark-up of budget reconciliation measures in the Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) proposed to extend bloated, highly controversial U...
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

EPA Draft Says MTBE a 'Likely' Cause of Cancer

A EPA draft risk assessment says MTBE, the gasoline additive that has contaminated drinking water in at least 29 states, is a "likely" human carcinogen, according to agency sources.
Farm Subsidies

Feingold Bill Would Limit Subsidies To Rich Corporate Farms

A prominent U.S. senator introduced legislation Tuesday to limit federal water subsidies to the richest corporate farms — a measure that could reduce the flow of cheap, taxpayer-subsidized water to...
Energy
Federal & State Energy Policy

Oil, Gas and Mining Industries Stake Claim to Most of U.S.' Natural Treasures

For decades, the oil and gas and mining industries have complained that they are locked out of access to public lands that could free the U.S. from dependence on foreign energy sources. Now the first...
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water
Water

Twenty-Six House Members Voted For DeLay's MTBE Lawsuit Immunity Bill Despite Contamination In Their Districts

In a move designed to please big oil companies, 26 Members of Congress voted in late 2003 to stop their own communities from being able to sue oil companies for polluting their drinking water with a...

Mercury

Proposed EPA Mercury Rule Leads World in Wrong Direction

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) today condemns the Bush EPA's proposed rule allowing power plants to trade mercury pollution credits.
Farm Subsidies

UK To Reveal Farm Subsidy Recipients

Days after its new Freedom of Information law took effect, and spurred by a joint request from The Guardian newspaper of London and the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) a London-based think tank on global...
Chemical Policy
Pesticides

EWG Demands Halt to Unethical, Scientifically Questionable Study

An Environmental Working Group (EWG) investigation into a controversial pesticide study found that the chemical industry's lobbying arm, the American Chemistry Council (ACC), boasted to its members...
Perchlorate
Food

Children's Health Panel Says EPA Failing to Protect Kids From Rocket Fuel

In a sharp rebuke to the Bush Administration, a federal advisory committee on children's health warns that the EPA's recommended cleanup level for a rocket fuel chemical fails to protect children...
Perchlorate
Food
Water

TOXIC ROCKET FUEL FOUND IN SAMPLES OF CALIFORNIA MILK

Milk from cows raised in some parts of California may expose infants and children to more of a toxic rocket fuel chemical than is considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and...
Mercury

Follow Up to Utility Industry-Funded Study Leads to Finding that Mercury in Fish No Problem, Scores of Independent Studies Suggest

In an effort to divert building efforts to warn American women about the dangers of mercury-contaminated tuna fish, seafood industry lobbyists are hyping a study originally funded by the mercury...
Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

BOXER INTRODUCES BILL TO REGULATE PERCHLORATE

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today introduced legislation to protect drinking water from contamination by the toxic chemical perchlorate.
Arsenic

Nationwide Consumer Testing of Backyard Decks and Playsets Shows High Levels of Arsenic on Old Wood

Results from the largest–ever testing program for arsenic–treated wood, released today by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), show that the public remains at risk from high levels of arsenic...
Toxic Chemicals
Farming & Agriculture

Press Release

This week, Monsanto and Solutia defend themselves in a lawsuit by 3,500 plaintiffs seeking compensation for health and environmental damage left behind by the company's production of PCBs in Anniston...
Farm Subsidies

Press Release

As farmers head to the fields to harvest corn, soybeans and other crops that they know will bring ruinously low prices at the local grain elevator, Congressional leaders are quietly arranging a pre...
Food & Water

News Release

Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook demanded that ABC News President David Westin fire reporter John Stossel for fabricating a network-sponsored laboratory study and repeatedly broadcasting...
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Water

Columbus

Pollutants in rivers and other source waters throughout Ohio are contaminating drinking water statewide, a citizen monitoring project has found. Tap water in a dozen Ohio communities is contaminated -...
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Water

New Alliance Forms

Mounting concern over long term health risks and the skyrocketing cost of water treatment associated with pesticide contaminated tapwater in hundreds of midwestern towns has forged an unprecedented...
BPA

EWG Tests Find High BPA Loads on Receipts

WASHINGTON, DC – Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) have found high levels of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) on 40 percent of receipts sampled from...
Research

Bush Ignores Law Protecting Grand Canyon as Uranium Mining Claims Soar

The Bush administration allowed Phoenix-based Neutron Energy to stake 20 new mining claims south of the Grand Canyon on August 7, in violation of an emergency Congressional resolution passed seven weeks earlier that declared off limits to mining activity approximately 1 million acres adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park.
Chemical Policy
Household & Consumer Products
Sunscreen

Physicians, Makers and Advocates Press For Safer Sunscreens

The coalition led by EWG and dermatologist Steven Q. Wang has asked the FDA to finalize its sunscreen regulations this year and to expedite its review of new ingredients that could enhance the...
Research

Tips to avoid BPA exposure

Although completely eliminating exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) may not be possible, there are steps you can take to reduce your family's exposure to this chemical by avoiding common sources and limiting exposure for the highest risk groups.
Toxic Chemicals

To Chairman Rush: chemicals in umbilical cord blood – including PBTs – need urgent action

Subject: Industrial chemicals in umbilical cord blood – including persistent and bioaccumulative compounds – need urgent action
BPA

FDA Must Curb BPA

While other federal public health and environmental agencies have targeted the plastics ingredient bisphenol A (BPA) as a chemical of concern to human health, the Food and Drug Administration has...