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California State Senator Pavley Introduces Legislation to Protect Babies and Toddlers from Toxic BPA Exposure

Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) has introduced legislation sponsored by Environmental Working Group (EWG) to reduce exposure of California's infants and toddlers to the toxic hormone disrupting...

NY State Admits Ignoring Threat to City’s Drinking Water

According to documents obtained by Environmental Working Group (EWG) through New York's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has not...

Lautenberg Assumes Powerful Committee Position With Oversight of Toxic Chemicals

Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, D-NJ, one of the U.S. Senate's most influential advocates for children's health has assumed the chair of the Environment and Public Works subcommittee charged with...

Making a Difference

There is no question that America faces an environmental and energy crisis. Today the American Wind Energy Association reports that Iowa has the second-greatest wind energy generating capacity, topped...
Research

What the Chemical Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

It takes a lot of nerve to go up against the $3 trillion-a-year global chemical industry. Ask University of Missouri-Columbia scientists Frederick Vom Saal and Wade Welshons. They've been in the industry's crosshairs for more than a decade, since their experiments turned up the first hard evidence that miniscule amounts of bisphenol A (BPA), an artificial sex hormone and integral component of a

Bush EPA Shirks Responsibility Over Perchlorate Contamination

WASHINGTON –- In a last-ditch effort to avoid regulating widespread perchlorate contamination of drinking water, the Bush Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for yet another blue-ribbon...

EWG: Infant Formula Companies Should Come Clean on Melamine, BPA

In response to yesterday's report that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found another toxic chemical -- this time melamine -- in infant formula, Environmental Working Group (EWG) today...

Safeway Stores to Remove BPA-Laced Baby Bottles from Shelves

Safeway's announcement today that it will stop selling baby bottles containing the plastics component bisphenol-A (BPA) in its 1,775 stores in the U.S. and Canada is a promising first step toward...

Canada to Take Immediate Action to Reduce BPA Exposure for Infants

As soon as tomorrow, Canadian health officials are poised to list the synthetic sex hormone bisphenol-A (BPA) as a toxic substance. Canada's action, which paves the way for an expected ban on BPA...

Harmful Chemicals Found in Bottled Water

Ten popular U.S. bottled water brands contain mixtures of 38 different pollutants, including bacteria, fertilizer, Tylenol and industrial chemicals, some at levels no better than tap water, according...

Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill’s Passage

Behind the thin green gloss Congressional leaders spread across the subsidy-laden 2008 farm bill, the Democratic Congress is now hacking away at pledges to expand conservation and other environmental...

NIH Refutes FDA’s Claims BPA is Safe for Use

The National Institutes of Health's National Toxicology Program (NTP) concluded today that bisphenol A (BPA), an artificial sex hormone and chemical used in hard plastic products like baby bottles...

EPA Again Decides Not to Regulate Chemicals in Drinking Water

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will not establish safety standards for 11 contaminants in drinking water.

One Pesticide Classified as Unsafe, Hundreds More to Go

Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that carbofuran, already registered as a restricted use pesticide, poses dietary, worker and ecological risks.

National Academy of Sciences: Formaldehyde Causes Cancer

Congress, at the request of industry, has managed to delay efforts by the federal Environmental Protection Agency to classify formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen, a significant step for public...

EPA Unveils Plan to Help Identify ‘Brockovich’ Chemical in Drinking Water

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promised to help local water utilities address public concerns over the possible presence of hexavalent chromium (chromium-6) in drinking water, and today it...
Research

Bush Administration Moved to Okay Teflon Pollution

In its final days, the Bush administration appears poised to issue an emergency health advisory for tap water polluted with the toxic Teflon chemical PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) effectively allowing a significant level of pollution and discouraging cleanup of PFOA contamination in tap water in at least 9 states.

EWG Fans More Than One Million Strong

Since 2006, Environmental Working Group has been building an email list of engaged consumers who sign up to get regular alerts about our latest research and practical tips to help them keep their...

Michael Pollan Names the World's 7 Most Powerful Foodies

Famed food writer/philosopher Michael Pollan has picked the seven individuals he considers to be the most powerful voices in the good food movement from around the world and published his list on...

American Academy of Pediatrics Endorses Cell Phone Safety Bill

The Environmental Working Group applauds the decision by the influential American Academy of Pediatrics to support pending legislation that would require new research into the safety of cell phone...

Few Sunscreens Shield From UVA Rays

Washington, D.C. – With fall here, millions of Americans are outside at football and soccer games, cross-country meets, school fairs, picking apples and raking leaves.

Nanomaterials May Soon be in Your Sportswear and Underwear

Washington, D.C – Environmental Working Group (EWG) has sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposing its proposal to approve a Swiss nanosilver textile coating for sale in...

EWG’s Ken Cook Testifies On House Proposal to Reform Federal Chemicals Law

Washington, D.C. –Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook testified today that reform legislation now before Congress “is essential to fixing our broken toxic chemicals policy.”

Government Should Help Poor, Not Rich

The Environmental Working Group joins other food, poverty and hunger groups calling for an increase in food stamp benefits.