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Bottled Water Quality Investigation

The bottled water industry promotes an image of purity, but comprehensive testing by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) reveals a surprising array of chemical contaminants in every bottled water brand analyzed, including toxic byproducts of chlorination in Walmart's Sam's Choice and Giant Supermarket's Acadia brands, at levels no different than routinely found in tap water. Several Sam's Choice
Energy
Midwest

Sound Science Trumps Special Interests In EPA Ethanol Blend Decision

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it would wait until mid-2010 to decide on whether to grant a waiver request that would allow for the use of up to 15 percent ethanol in...

Embracing New Media Tools to Protect Public Health and the Environment Earns EWG Top Web Honor

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is proud to announce that president and co-founder Ken Cook has been voted The Huffington Post's Ultimate Green Game Changer of 2009 for harnessing new media to...
Research

California’s Climate Change Policy Leaves Agriculture in the Dust

Climate change presents California agriculture with two major challenges: how to reduce its contribution to climate change while arming itself against the threats a warming planet poses to agricultural production.
Farming & Agriculture

House Agriculture Leaders To Cut Conservation, Protect Direct Payments

EWG strongly opposes a drought disaster package proposed by House agriculture committee leaders that would be paid for with damaging and unnecessary cuts to conservation programs.

Research

Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay

Without an ambitious effort to fairly but effectively regulate pollution coming from farm fields throughout the watershed, there is simply no chance that the Chesapeake Bay will recover. The time has come to solve the primary obstacle to cleaner water in the region's streams, rivers, and Bay: reliance on a failed voluntary approach to agricultural pollution and inadequate regulatory backstops.
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food
Food

Nation’s Top Chefs, Food and Nutrition Experts Denounce Flawed House Farm Bill

More than 60 leading chefs, authors, food and agriculture policy and nutrition experts, business leaders and environment and health organizations have sent an open letter to Capitol Hill objecting...

Conservation
Food

House Farm Bill: Bad for Taxpayers, Hungry Families, and the Environment

Environmental Working Group joined anti-hunger, public health, labor, and animal welfare groups at the National Press Club to voice deep concerns with the recently passed House Agriculture Committee...

Farm Subsidies

Taxpayers Paid $6.1 Million in Farm Subsidies to Members of Congress, Families

Environmental Working Group's latest update of the EWG farm subsidy database shows that 23 members of Congress, or their family members, benefitted from $6,140,634 in taxpayer-funded farm subsidy...

California

Drillers Got Inside Track on N.Y. Fracking Rules

New York regulators granted natural gas industry representatives exclusive access to shale gas drilling regulations as early as six weeks before they were made public, according to documents obtained...

Energy

One Million Americans to Fight Industry Efforts to Kill Clean Energy Agenda

Fed up with the undue influence of the energy companies, utilities, lobbyists and other interests that are making it impossible for Washington to move forward decisively in achieving America's clean...

Senate Adopts Common Sense Reform to Crop Insurance Subsidies

Environmental Working Group released this statement on the passage of the Coburn-Durbin amendment to reduce premium subsidies by 15 percent for farm businesses with adjusted gross incomes of more than...

Chemical Policy
BPA
Children’s Health
Cookware & Food Containers
Food

FDA to Ban BPA from Infant Formula

The federal Food and Drug Administration has informed Rep. Edward M. Markey (D-MA) that it is beginning a process that could end the use of the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in infant...

Research

Dog Food Comparison Shows High Fluoride Levels

EWG science review of fluoride and dental health, and why dogs might be at risk from high-fluoride diets.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Food & Water
Food

Healthy Food, California Get Short Shrift in Farm Bill

An Environmental Working Group analysis highlights the skewed priorities and gross inequities in federal spending under the nation's most far-reaching food and farm legislation.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies
Conservation
Food

EWG statement on Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012

Statement of Craig Cox, Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources of the Environmental Working Group, on the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012: “A farm bill that cuts...

Farming & Agriculture
Conservation

Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay

Despite a quarter of a century of effort by farmers, citizens, environmentalists, and government officials to address pollution in the streams, rivers and waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region...
Flame Retardants

Supermarkets Must Halt Use of Storage Racks Made with Toxic Flame Retardant Chemical

In efforts to protect the nation's food supply from further chemical contamination, Environmental Working Group (EWG) today urged the country's largest grocery stores and supermarkets to suspend the...
BPA

BPA Restriction a Step Closer with House Vote on Food Safety Bill

Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Food Safety and Enhancement Act of 2009 (H.R.2749) which included a provision by Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) that would require the...
Toxic Chemicals

Dog Food Contaminated with Levels of Fluoride Above EPA's Legal Limit for Humans

Eight of 10 dog food brands tested by an independent laboratory commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) contain fluoride in amounts up to 2.5 times higher than the Environmental Protection...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

EWG Launches Interactive News and Commentary Site on Toxic Chemicals Policy Reform

Environmental Working Group (EWG) today launched an interactive online site featuring news and commentary, as well as a forum for a thought-provoking exchange of ideas on reforming the nation's...
BPA

Cloud Over BPA Grows As Top Hormone Researchers Warn Of Health Threat

The country's top endocrine scientists have declared the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA) and other environmental pollutants shown to disrupt the endocrine system to be a “significant concern...
BPA

EWG Calls on Coca-Cola to Protect Customers from BPA

Environmental Working Group (EWG) today called on The Coca-Cola Company's chairman and chief executive officer Muhtar Kent to take immediate steps to reduce children's exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), a...
BPA

First-Ever Statewide Ban of BPA Adopted in Minnesota

This morning, Minnesota's governor, Tim Pawlenty (R) signed landmark legislation, the first statewide prohibition on the use of the toxic plastics chemical Bisphenol-A, or BPA, in baby bottles and...