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Federal Panel’s Report on Food Contaminant Flunks Basic Science
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...
Senate Panel Passes Asbestos Ban
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...
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...
Widening Farm Subsidy Gap Is Leaving Black Farmers Further Behind
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.
Down the Drain: Chemicals From Personal Care Products Polluting SF Bay
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.
Ken Cook Statement on National Black Farmers Association President’s Congressional Subcommittee Testimony
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.
Which Sunscreens are Safest?
Today EWG released the first-ever, in-depth analysis of the safety and effectiveness of more than 700 name-brand sunscreens
Naming (1.5 Million) Names
A new Web site, developed by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) from millions of previously unpublished USDA subsidy records and released today, provides nearly full disclosure of federal farm...
Power Drain
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.
New Tests Find High Levels of Hazardous Chlorination Byproducts in D.C. Tap Water
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...
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...
Drilling on Federal Game Habitat Has Doubled This Decade
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...
Hearing on "Perchlorate: Health and Environmental Impacts of Unregulated Exposure"
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...
EWG President Ken Cook Testifies Before Congressional Committee
Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook testified today before the US House of Representatives Agricultural Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research. Using previously...
Right-to-Know Rollback will Hide Data on 600K lbs of Toxics in California
The Bush Administration has adopted regulations that will dramatically roll back Americans' right to know about chemical hazards in their neighborhoods, allowing California industries to handle almost...
Conflict of Interest Still Looms Over NIH Contractor
After the Environmental Working Group (EWG) revealed that contractor Sciences International (SI) worked for companies who made chemicals under review by the agency, NIH let the company conduct its own...
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.
CDC Study Shows Boston Area Infants Exposed to Dangerous Rocket Fuel Ingredient through Breast Milk
An Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis of recently published data from scientists at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Boston University (BU) shows that infants are being exposed to...
Environmental Working Group's Statement in Support of the "Safe Drinking Water for Healthy Communities Act of 2007" Introduced Today by Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis
"Tests by the CDC and independent researchers have confirmed that many Americans are carrying the rocket fuel ingredient, perchlorate, in their bodies in amounts that lower thyroid hormone levels, in...
Environmental Working Group: Rahall Bill Strikes Right Balance Between Mining and Protection of Environment and Public's Health
As new mining claims multiply across the Western United States, Environmental Working Group (EWG) applauds House Natural Resources Committee Chairman, U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) for reintroducing...