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Chemical Policy

EPA Convenes Panel To Strip Safety Standards That Protect Kids From Cancer-Causing Chemicals

Three weeks after the launch of a major Congressional investigation into conflicts of interest compromising EPA expert review panels and the revelation that EPA, at the request of the chemical...
Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy
Flame Retardants

Caving to Industry Pressure, EPA Fires Chair of Chemical Panel

Under pressure from chemical industry lobbyists, the Bush Administration fired the chair of an expert science panel at the Environmental Protection Agency that was evaluating the safety of a...
Toxic Chemicals

Bush Administration Should Stop Foot Dragging and Finish National Workplace Exposure Study for Nurses

In a letter sent today, Environmental Working Group (EWG) Executive Director Richard Wiles urged lawmakers to call on the Bush administration to stop its almost seven years of foot dragging and move...

Federal & State Energy Policy

Ritter's Position on Roan a Good Start But Should Go Farther to Protect Plateau

Environmental Working Group (EWG) is encouraged that Gov. Bill Ritter has called for protecting critical habitat and properly managed oil and gas drilling around Roan Plateau. But the governor must...
Energy
Midwest
Farm Subsidies

EWG Calls on Congressional Leadership to Oppose Shortsighted Renewable Fuel Standards Proposal

Today, the Environmental Working Group sent the attached letter to Congressional leadership expressing opposition to the reported Renewable Fuels package in the Energy Bill.
Research

Credibility Gap: Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging

In 2006, under pressure from the U.S. EPA, DuPont and 7 other companies promised to phase out by 2015 a cancer-causing chemical called PFOA, used to make Teflon and also found in grease-resistant coatings for food packaging. In its place, the chemical industry is pushing new, supposedly “green” food package coatings. But an investigation by EWG finds no evidence that the industry-touted
Asbestos

Latest Dangerous Toy From China

Last week, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) announced the results of an exhaustive 18-month scientific study testing hundreds of consumer products for the deadly cancer-causing...
Energy

The New Gold Rush: Surge in Mining Claims Threatens California’s National Parks & Wilderness

A modern-day Gold Rush is threatening California's national parks, national monuments, wilderness and roadless areas.
Water

Bush Moves to Okay Toxic Teflon Pollution in Tap Water

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...
Energy
Midwest

Time for Ethanol to Stand on Its Own

There is a growing consensus in the environmental community that federal government subsidies and mandates for corn-based ethanol have produced unintended, yet potentially catastrophic environmental...
Conservation

Historic Date, Historic Mess

For a quarter century, environmentalists, farmers, and government officials from six states have relied on sporadic, “random acts of conservation” to mitigate the unintended damage these agriculture...
Research

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, key Democratic lawmakers are hacking away at promises to expand conservation and other environmental programs.
Farm
Research

Fire Retardants in Toddlers and Their Mothers

In thehe first investigation of toxic fire retardants in parents and their children, EWG found that toddlers and preschoolers typically had 3 times as much of these hormone-disrupting chemicals in their blood as their mothers.
Chemical Policy
Cookware & Food Containers

Schwarzenegger Vetoes Bill to Ban Cancer-Causing Teflon Chemicals in Food Packaging

On the same day Gov. Schwarzenegger touted himself as the leader of a comprehensive chemical reform program, he vetoed a bill that would have made California the first state to ban toxic chemicals...
Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

EPA Ignores Toxic Rocket Fuel Chemical in Drinking Water

Under pressure from the White House and the Pentagon, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided not to set cleanup or safety standards for a toxic rocket fuel chemical that contaminates drinking...
Farming & Agriculture

State by State EQIP Cuts

Today, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released a follow up report to Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill's Passage that details the proposed conservation program cuts...
Flame Retardants

Investigators Hear From Scientist EPA Fired After Chemical Lobby Pressure

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) welcomed today's House Energy and Commerce Committee's investigation of the chemical lobby's role in pressuring the Bush administration to manipulate an...
Phthalates

US to Ban Toxic Toys

Congress has reached agreement on groundbreaking legislation to ban a family of toxic chemicals known as phthalates in toys and other children's products.
Asbestos

EWG Applauds Senate Passage of Landmark Legislation Banning Asbestos

Environmental Working Group (EWG) Executive Director Richard Wiles issued the following statement thanking United States Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) after the Senate...
Cosmetics

Investigation Finds More Than 400 Cosmetic Products on U.S. Shelves Unsafe When Used as Directed

As FDA officials and the cosmetics industry prepared to huddle behind closed doors without input from outside groups to discuss “regulatory obstacles” between countries, Environmental Working Group...
Research

Polluted Pets

In the first study of its kind, Environmental Working Group found that American pets are polluted with even higher levels of many of the same synthetic industrial chemicals that researchers have recently found in people, including newborns.
BPA

Expert Panel Warns of Health Risks from BPA

The Chapel Hill consensus statement on BPA released today underscores, by way of contrast, how hopeless and corrupt the ongoing review of BPA by the NIH Center for The Evaluation of Risks to Human...
Toxic Chemicals

EWG Calls for Evidence Supporting FDA's Sweeping Assurances of Melamine

In letter sent today to the new point person in charge of food safety at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook called on the agency to back up...
Farm Subsidies

USDA Report: Corn Plantings May be Highest Since World War II

It's one thing to have an ethanol boom in the Corn Belt. An ethanol blow-out is another thing altogether.