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The national home improvement chain Lowe's announced this week it will begin removing two highly toxic chemicals from its paint stripping products, with the phaseout to be completed by the end of this...
On Wednesday, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, will offer an amendment to the Senate farm bill that would tighten requirements for farm subsidies. The Environmental Working Group urged support for...
Republican chairman of the Senate committee with oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency plans to call the agency's embattled chief Scott Pruitt to testify over scandals.
The Senate Appropriations Committee passed a key spending bill today that includes report language requiring the Trump administration to release a key chemical contamination study it buried.
The latest round of tests by federal scientists found antibiotic-resistant bacteria on nearly 80 percent of supermarket meat in 2015, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Working Group.
As Congress begins debate on food and farm policy, some of the nation's top chefs gathered on Capitol Hill today to urge lawmakers to protect the nation's most effective anti-hunger program from...
If Scott Pruitt becomes attorney general, he'd treat corporate criminal polluters like jaywalkers, said Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook.
Contrary to Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's testimony before a House committee, Toyota has no plans to partner with the agency, the company said in a letter to the Environmental...
EWG urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and California's attorney general today to stop Rodan + Fields from making misleading claims about benzophenone, a chemical that has been linked to...
A new EWG analysis of state records shows that each year between 2012 and 2016, almost three-fourths of California toddlers enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state-run low-income health insurance program...
If CIA Director Mike Pompeo becomes the next Secretary of State, he will be the first known climate denier to serve as the nation's chief diplomat Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore via Flickr.com
Testing of air in two California neighborhoods adjacent to agricultural fields receiving applications of the soil fumigant methyl bromide revealed high levels of this extremely toxic pesticide outside state mandated buffer zones. Buffer zones are recommended based on the size of the field and the rate of methyl bromide application and are intended to protect the public from exposure to unsafe
The Environmental Protection Agency must take a series of steps to protect public health and the environment from the toxic fluorinated “forever chemicals” known as PFAS from being incinerated or...
Today, the Food and Drug Administration sent a special women's health alert and unveiled a new webpage urging caution for anyone using formaldehyde in hair-smoothing treatments, sometimes referred to...
Collard and mustard greens join kale among the most pesticide-contaminated fresh produce on the Environmental Working Group's 2021 Dirty Dozen™ list. For the first time, bell peppers and hot peppers...
EWG submitted comments to the EPA in opposition to proposed new uses of the neurotoxic insecticide aldicarb on oranges and grapefruit in Texas and Florida.
The Environmental Working Group submitted comments urging the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Toxicology Program to strengthen and broaden the NTP efforts to identify and characterize...
The Environmental Working Group submitted comments to the EPA urging the agency to revoke the proposed interim decision for chlorpyrifos, issued in December 2020, to cancel all chlorpyrifos uses, and...
The soda industry has long been recognized as a major contributor to the obesity epidemic. In an attempt to change the narrative, Big Soda is pushing diet drinks, spending $296 million on marketing in...
EWG News Roundup (1/15): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
