Sunscreen or Sunscam?
Almost a year after consumer concerns pushed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to promise tougher sunscreen standards, an investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreen products finds that...
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Surge in Uranium Mining Claims Spurs Concern for Drinking Water Safety
In response to the threat that surging mining claims along the Colorado pose to drinking water in Las Vegas, the General Manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), Patricia Mulroy, sent a...
EWG Warns Senate Over Rocket Fuel in Nation's Drinking Water
For almost 50 years, the federal government, defense contractors and the chemical industry have worked together to block public health protections against a component of rocket fuel that can disrupt...
Biofuels and Bad Weather: America’s Food-to-Fuel Gamble
With relentless rains, cold temperatures, and record floods pounding the Midwest, the nation's ill-conceived corn ethanol mandate appears headed into a perfect storm, helping to push food and feed...
Mining Threats to Grand Canyon and Crested Butte Halted
As pressure mounts to overhaul the antiquated 1872 Mining Law, two high-profile mining operations have come to a halt - one along the south rim of the Grand Canyon, and the other right above the...
Major Infant Bottled Water Company Provides Parents with Misleading & False Information About Benefits of Fluoridated Water
One of the nation's biggest infant bottle water companies – Nursery Water - is misleading parents with erroneous information on its website and advertising materials touting the safety and benefits of...
Government Report Focuses on Agriculture as 'Dead Zone' Culprit
Today the USGS released findings that show agricultural practices in 9 states contribute 75% of the nitrogen and phosphorous pollution to the “Dead Zone” in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Currently, the...
Chemical Exposures on the Job May Be Linked to Diseases in Nurses
A first ever national survey of nurses' exposures to chemicals, pharmaceuticals and radiation on the job suggests there are links between serious health problems such as cancer, asthma, miscarriages...
U.S. One-Year Olds Overexposed to Rocket Fuel Chemical
One of every 16 one-year-old children in the U.S. is exposed to the rocket fuel chemical perchlorate at levels above the government's safe dose, according to an Environmental Working Group analysis of...
Fracking Disclosure Bill Advances in California State Legislature
The California State Assembly has passed legislation sponsored by Environmental Working Group and Earthworks to require oil and natural gas drillers to make public a complete list of chemicals they...
Stacked Fracking Panel Has Public Meeting Monday in Pennsylvania
Monday night, June 13, is your chance to speak up on behalf of America's drinking water and to help protect your land from damage from oil and gas drilling.
National, State Groups Back Health Care for Camp Lejeune Vets, Families
Veterans and their families made ill by contaminated well water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina should not have to fight to get medical care and services.
Disapproval of Fracking Panel Grows
Religious leaders, community representatives, environmental groups and health advocates from 100 organizations representing 2 million people in 13 states have united to protest the U.S. Energy...
Scientists Protest Makeup of DoE Natural Gas Panel
Twenty eight scientists from 22 universities in 13 states have signed a letter objecting to the makeup of an industry-dominated advisory panel named by Energy Secretary Steven Chu to examine safety...
Administration Releases Long Overdue Pesticide Data
The U.S. Department of Agriculture ignored the intense pressure from the produce and pesticide industry and released its extensive annual analysis of pesticide residues on fresh fruits and vegetables...
EPA to require tap water tests for unregulated contaminants
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a nationwide plan to require water utilities to test drinking water for 28 contaminants currently unregulated by federal law, including six...
FRAC act to close oil, gas drilling safety loopholes
The Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act, first introduced in 2009 and dropped in the hopper Tuesday (March 15) by Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Maurice...
Poor Farming Practices Foul Drinking Water at the Source
A new Environmental Working Group report examines water pollution caused by farm runoff and details how treating the problem after the fact is increasingly expensive, difficult and, if current trends...
Ad Campaign Targets Farm Bill Conservation Cuts
WASHINGTON – Some lawmakers have made clear that they intend to cut 7 million acres protected under the Conservation Reserve Program from the next farm bill. Congress has cut other critical...
Senate Votes to Bar Farm Subsidies to Millionaires
The U.S. Senate voted 84-15 last night to deny farm subsidy payments to millionaires.
EPA Ruling Backs Camp Lejeune Victims
The Environmental Protection Agency has handed a major victory to veterans, civilian workers and families who resided at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina when its drinking water was polluted with the...
Cosmetic Industry Declares Formaldehyde In Hair Products Unsafe
The mainstream cosmetics industry has, for the first time, declared formaldehyde unsafe at any level in hair straighteners.
Obama’s Debt Reduction Plan Would Eliminate Wasteful Farm Subsidies
Kenneth A. Cook, president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group, has applauded President Obama's plan to reform the nation's wasteful agriculture policy in his drive to reduce the nation's...
EWG Dissects Federal Fracking Report
A Department of Energy advisory panel's draft report has insufficiently examined in depth the health and safety issues raised by natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, according to a detailed...