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Congressional Plan to Shield Polluters From Cleanup Costs Will Benefit A Handful of Texas Oil Refiners
Millions of consumers and their water utilities in 25 states will be forced to pay billions of dollars to remove a toxic, foul-smelling gasoline additive from drinking water under a plan to prohibit...
TOXIC FIRE RETARDANTS FOUND IN U.S. WOMEN'S BREAST MILK
In the first nationwide tests for chemical fire retardants in the breast milk of American mothers, Environmental Working Group (EWG) found unexpectedly high levels of these little-known thyroid toxins...
TOXIC FIRE RETARDANT FOUND IN SAMPLES OF CALIFORNIA MILK
In the first nationwide tests for chemical fire retardants in the breast milk of American mothers, Environmental Working Group (EWG) found unexpectedly high levels of these little-known thyroid toxins...
First-Ever U.S. Tests of Farmed Salmon Show High Levels of Cancer-Causing PCBs
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) today released results of the most extensive tests to date of cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) levels in farmed salmon consumed in the United States...
Toxic Fire Retardants Building Up Rapidly in CA Fish
Levels of a little-known class of neurotoxic chemicals found in computers, TV sets, cars and furniture are building up rapidly in key indicator species of San Francisco Bay fish, according to tests by...
Fast Food Companies Asked to Disclose Use of Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging
EWG asks the CEOs of nine major fast food corporations to disclose the use of toxic nonstick chemicals in their packaging.
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...
Groups Want Whitman to Explain How Monsanto Escaped Crackdown for Decades of PCB Pollution
Public interest groups today called on US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christine Todd Whitman to explain a key change in a controversial and highly unusual pollution cleanup...
Showdown for DuPont: EPA Starts Review of Teflon Chemical Now in Human Blood
EWG testifies at a EPA public meeting on teflon contamination, and charges DuPont repeatedly downplayed questions of the Teflon chemical's toxicity.
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...
Capps Bill Would Curb Toxic Perchlorate Contamination Chemical Found in California Water, Agriculture Products
Congresswoman Lois Capps today introduced legislation to protect Americans from perchlorate, a chemical contaminate that has seeped into underground water supplies and has recently been detected in...
Senator Boxer's letter to FDA
Correspondence regarding perchlorate contamination in food growth in the United States
Suspect Salads: Toxic Rocket Fuel Found in Samples of Winter Lettuce
Lettuce grown in the fall and winter months in Southern California or Arizona may contain higher levels of toxic rocket fuel than is considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
EWG TSCA 8(e) Petition: EPA probes DuPont birth defect study
EWG alleged today that the DuPont chemical company has violated federal law by withholding from the government for the last 22 years a company study that detected a toxic, Teflon-related chemical in...
Environmental Working Group calls for Immediate Recall of Arsenic-Treated Playsets and Reimbursement for Consumers
The Environmental Working Group today asked the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to ban the use of arsenic-treated wood in outdoor play structures and to order consumer refunds for millions...
Ford Caught Lying - Again
Ford has been the subject of some strong charges by our organization about its veracity with customers and the public about the safety of its Bronco II-Explorer model line.
Ford Hid SUV Rollover Evidence For Decades
Like other car companies, Ford has consistently fought mandatory increases in fuel economy for SUVs and other vehicles by invoking fears that higher mileage requirements would result in smaller, more...
SEN. BOXER INTRODUCES BILL TO SET SAFETY STANDARD
Environmental Working Group (EWG) applauded Sen. Barbara Boxer's introduction today of a bill to set a national safety standard for rocket fuel waste in drinking water, and released exclusive up-to...
BOXER INTRODUCES BILL TO REGULATE PERCHLORATE
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today introduced legislation to protect drinking water from contamination by the toxic chemical perchlorate.
Arsenic Lobbyists Coming Out of Woodwork
For decades, they made the world safe for skyrocketing sales of arsenic-soaked wood, and dangerous for the millions of Americans who were exposed to the material, and are still exposed today. But...