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Required conservation practices poorly monitored, farmers consistently denied conservation money, large farms continue to reap l

Monday, September 10, 2007
As the five major commodity crops reap billions in taxpayer dollars each year, nearly 70 percent of farmer requests for voluntary conservation assistance go unfunded and soil erosion rules for subsidy recipients are barely enforced.
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Key Issues: 
Subsidies

EWG Statement on Latest FDA Proposed Sunscreen Safety Standards

Thursday, August 23, 2007
EWG issued the following statement today in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s latest proposed federal safety standards for sunscreens. FDA first announced its intention to implement safety standards for sunscreens 28 years ago. To date, none have been finalized. These new proposed regulations would for the first time put a permanent safety standard in place for UVA protection.
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Key Issues: 
Cosmetics
Sunscreens

EWG Statement on Reassignment of Chief of NIH Environmental Institute

Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Executive Director Richard Wiles issued the following statement today in response to the decision by the head of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) – a division of NIH – to step down as a result of an on-going investigation into his leadership of the health advisory panel.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics

Plan to Add Fluoride to Southern California Tap Water will put 64,000 Kids at Risk

Monday, August 20, 2007
More than 64,000 children a day in Southern California will be exposed to an unsafe dose of fluoride when the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) begins adding fluoride to drinking water in October, according to an analysis by the Environmental Working Group (EWG).
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Key Issues: 
Water
Tap Water

Report: More Than 800 New Mining Claims Crowd Border of Grand Canyon National Park

Thursday, August 16, 2007
A report released by the Environmental Working Group today shows an 80 percent increase in uranium, gold and other mining claims in 12 western states over the past five years, including an explosion of uranium claims near the edge of Grand Canyon National Park.
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Key Issues: 
EWG's Energy Research Archive

U.S. Health Panel Ignores Science on Food-Packaging Chemical

Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Senior Scientist Dr. Anila Jacob, MD, MPH, issued the following statement in response to the decision by a government sponsored panel to largely ignore wide ranging scientific research connecting human health risks with exposure to Bisphenol-A (BPA).
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Key Issues: 
BPA and Alternatives

Federal Panel’s Report on Food Contaminant Flunks Basic Science

Monday, August 6, 2007
The National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) is assessing the health risks of the compound BPA, a toxic ingredient in plastics that contaminates an alarming number of packaged foods and is widely found in humans. But the CERHR assessment — prepared in part by a contractor since fired over concerns about conflicts of interest — fails to meet the most basic scientific standards, even as independent scientists have declared BPA a clear risk to human health.
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Key Issues: 
BPA and Alternatives

Senate Panel Passes Asbestos Ban

Thursday, August 2, 2007
Eighteen years after the Environmental Protection Agency unsuccessfully attempted to ban asbestos, one of the world’s most deadly substances, a Senate panel voted this week to ban the use of the microscopic fibers.
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Key Issues: 
Asbestos

Expert Panel Warns of Health Risks from BPA

Thursday, August 2, 2007
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 Reproduction (CERHR) really is.
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Key Issues: 
BPA and Alternatives

Widening Farm Subsidy Gap Is Leaving Black Farmers Further Behind

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Black farmers receive between one-third to one-sixth of the benefits under major federal crop subsidy programs that other farmers receive, and the “subsidy gap” has widened over the past decade.
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Key Issues: 
Subsidies

New Tests Find High Levels of Hazardous Chlorination Byproducts in D.C. Tap Water

Thursday, May 24, 2007
In spite of the best efforts of the Washington Aqueduct to provide quality tap water to the District of Columbia, tests conducted by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in May of 2007 revealed toxic by-products of the chemicals used to purify Potomac River water, at levels above annual federal health limits.
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Key Issues: 
Tap Water

Down the Drain: Chemicals From Personal Care Products Polluting SF Bay

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Hormone-disrupting chemicals from a wide variety of consumer products are polluting San Francisco Bay, posing risks to marine life and challenges for consumers and utility districts.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics

Ken Cook Statement on National Black Farmers Association President’s Congressional Subcommittee Testimony

Thursday, June 21, 2007
Today, Dr. John Boyd, President of the National Black Farmer’s Association, testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
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Key Issues: 
Farming

Which Sunscreens are Safest?

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Today EWG released the first-ever, in-depth analysis of the safety and effectiveness of more than 700 name-brand sunscreens
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Key Issues: 
Cosmetics
Sunscreens

Naming (1.5 Million) Names

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
A new Web site, developed by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) from millions of previously unpublished USDA subsidy records and released today, provides nearly full disclosure of federal farm subsidy beneficiaries for the first time.
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Key Issues: 
Subsidies

Power Drain

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Some of America's richest and largest farms are paying pennies for the vast amounts of electricity needed to deliver irrigation water to California's arid Central Valley.
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Key Issues: 
Subsidies

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

Friday, May 4, 2007
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 its claims that melamine is not a danger to the public's health by disclosing its scientific research and analysis that brought the agency to that conclusion. To date, over 8,500 pet deaths have been reported.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics

Drilling on Federal Game Habitat Has Doubled This Decade

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Oil and gas drilling in big game habitat on Western public lands has more than doubled in the past decade, pushing sportsmen out of their favorite hunting spots, according to an Environmental Working Group analysis of federal data.
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Key Issues: 
Federal and State Policy

Hearing on "Perchlorate: Health and Environmental Impacts of Unregulated Exposure"

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
A series of critical new studies by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the EPA's proposed safe exposure level for the rocket fuel contaminant perchlorate is not protective of public health.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Perchlorate
Water
Tap Water

EWG President Ken Cook Testifies Before Congressional Committee

Thursday, April 19, 2007
Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook testified today before the US House of Representatives Agricultural Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research. Using previously unpublished data compiled in response to the congressional mandate in Section 1614 of the 2002 farm bill, Mr. Cook illustrated the need for a dramatic increase in federal agricultural conservation programs.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Subsidies

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