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Autism Rate Surges Among US Children
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today that 1 in 88 American children have an autism spectrum disorder, a 23 percent increase since the agency's 2009 review.
EPA Moves to Limit Mercury Emissions
The federal Environmental Protection Agency pressed ahead today in its effort to reduce Americans' exposure to hazardous chemicals, announcing a long-awaited new standard to reduce the amount of...
Mercury in Fish Predicted To Soar
A landmark study by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and universities in the U.S. and Australia has, for the first time, documented how escalating mercury-laden air emissions, chiefly...
Lighten Up In 2009
An EWG investigation called “Lighten Up in ‘09” has identified seven compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb lines that trump the rest, with much lower levels of the toxic chemical mercury and lifespans...
Mercury Mischief at FDA
Documents obtained by EWG show that officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are pressing to reverse the agency's current recommendations that pregnant women and children limit their...
Media Falls Hook, Line and Sinker for Fish Industry Line on Mercury
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) issued the following statement today in response to media outlets that reported on a fish industry study urging pregnant women to disregard FDA guidance on fish...
Environmental Working Group's Statement on Lancet Seafood Study
This study supports the long-standing advice of the federal government, the Environmental Working Group, and many other organizations: women should eat seafood during pregnancy known to be low in...
House Set To Nullify State Consumer Safety Programs Under Pressure From Corporate Food Lobby
The House votes today on a bill pitting giant food companies against the health and safety of American families—a measure that could nullify state laws warning consumers about mercury in fish, lead in...
Proposed EPA Mercury Rule Leads World in Wrong Direction
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) today condemns the Bush EPA's proposed rule allowing power plants to trade mercury pollution credits.
New FDA Seafood Advisory is Industry Giveaway
Air pollution from coal burned in power plants is a major source of mercury in fish. If women follow the FDA's advice and eat one can of albacore tuna a week, hundreds of thousands more babies will be...
As FDA, Advisory Panel Discuss Whether to Tell Women About Mercury Contamination, New FDA Tests Show Higher Than Expected Mercury
Results of new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fish tests show that mercury contamination of canned tuna and other fish is more serious than agency scientists previously assumed.
U.S. Mercury Standard Among Worst in World
A joint UN - WHO expert food committee has just recommended a new international standard for mercury in seafood that continues to allow a dangerous mercury exposure level, and is particularly...
Follow Up to Utility Industry-Funded Study Leads to Finding that Mercury in Fish No Problem, Scores of Independent Studies Suggest
In an effort to divert building efforts to warn American women about the dangers of mercury-contaminated tuna fish, seafood industry lobbyists are hyping a study originally funded by the mercury...
EWG Files Legal Challenge to FDA Mercury Health Advisory
Today EWG filed a legal challenge seeking to block the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from issuing a weak proposed health advisory for mercury in seafood. New analyses contained within the filing...
Government Seafood Consumption Advice Could Expose 1 In 4 Newborns to Elevated Mercury Levels
Government recommendations for fish consumption could expose more than one in four expectant mothers - 1 million women - to enough mercury to put the health of their fetuses at risk, according to a...