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EWG News Roundup (12/7): EWG Analyzes Korean Beauty Trends, Coal Consumption Plummets and More

Friday, December 7, 2018

EWG News Roundup (12/7): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Consumer Products
Energy

EWG News Roundup (11/30): EWG Talks Cosmetics Reform on Kardashian Show, Mapping Impacts of Hurricane Florence and More

Friday, November 30, 2018

EWG News Roundup (11/30): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Consumer Products
Farming
Water

Waterkeeper Alliance and EWG Investigation Finds Hurricane Florence Flooded Poultry Operations Housing 1.8 Million Birds

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

The heavy rains and high waters after Hurricane Florence flooded 35 industrial poultry operations in North Carolina housing an estimated 1.8 million birds, according to a new investigation by Waterkeeper Alliance and the Environmental Working Group. The state estimates it spent $11 million disposing of dead poultry following the hurricane.

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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Farming
Water

EWG Analysis: Trump’s Farm Bailout Payments Flowing to City Slickers

Monday, November 19, 2018

Farm bailout payments intended to offset the impacts of President Trump’s trade war have instead flowed to more than 1,000 “city slickers” who live in the nation’s largest cities, an EWG analysis of Department of Agriculture data shows.

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Key Issues: 
Farming
Subsidies
Crop Insurance

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FERC Nominee Who Slammed Renewable Energy, Pushed Coal Bailout Narrowly Passes Senate

Thursday, December 6, 2018
The Senate today narrowly approved President Trump’s nominee for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission who has openly criticized renewable energy and played a key role in the administration’s efforts to bail out the failing coal and nuclear industries.
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Key Issues: 
Energy
Renewable Energy
Fossil Fuels
Oil & Gas Drilling

Tests find PFAS Chemicals in Cosmetics at ‘Elevated Levels’

Thursday, December 6, 2018
A new study from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency found toxic fluorinated, or PFAS, chemicals at high levels in nearly one-third of the cosmetics products it tested.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Nonstick Chemicals
Consumer Products
Cosmetics

Less Expensive K-Beauty Skincare Products Score Green

Thursday, December 6, 2018
A new EWG analysis of serums and essences, popularized by Korean beauty, or K-Beauty, finds that about 40 percent of the products were formulated with less hazardous ingredients. U.S. sales of K-beauty products have increased by almost 300 percent in the past two years alone.
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Key Issues: 
Consumer Products
Cosmetics

Trump EPA To Scale Back Climate Rule To Pave Way for More Coal Plants

Wednesday, December 5, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency will repeal an Obama-era climate change regulation requiring coal-fired power plants to install technology that captures carbon dioxide emissions, according to reporting by The New York Times and Axios.
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Key Issues: 
Energy
Fossil Fuels
Mining