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Despite Pruitt’s Cleanup Claims, Factory Chicken Farms Still Threaten Okla. Water

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, claims he made great progress in protecting the state's water from pollution by factory...

National Study: Toxic Nonstick Chemicals Still Found in Many Fast Food Wrappers

New research based on nationwide tests shows that many fast food chains still use food wrappers, bags and boxes coated with highly fluorinated chemicals. EWG's report supplements a new peer-reviewed...

Okla. Leaders Refute Pruitt’s Claims of Environmental Enforcement, Senators Demand Truth from EPA Nominee

Oklahoma environmental advocates and attorneys met yesterday with members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to strongly refute Scott Pruitt's claims that he advanced pollution...

U.S. Gives ‘Fishy’ Advice that Will Expose Babies to Too Much Mercury

Some pregnant women who follow the new U.S. fish advice will be exposed to far too much mercury, say scientists and advocates. They maintain that the outdated science used for developing the...

EPA Pick Pruitt Stymied Cleanup of Scenic River Fouled by Factory Chicken Farm Waste

After taking $40,000 in campaign contributions from poultry industry interests, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt – President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection...

With EWG VERIFIED®, Shoppers Can Avoid Toxic Ingredients in Cosmetics

The EWG VERIFIED® program now features 833 top-rated personal care and cosmetics products, allowing consumers to quickly spot items that meet stringent ingredient and transparency requirements.

Lawsuit Urges FDA to Protect Salon Workers, Consumers from Formaldehyde

Today the Environmental Working Group and Women's Voices for the Earth sued the Food and Drug Administration for its failure to protect the public from dangers associated with popular hair...

Michelle Pfeiffer Joins EWG’s Board of Directors Actress, Environmentalist Is a Long-Time EWG Supporter

Golden Globe Award winner and three-time Academy Award nominated actress Michelle Pfeiffer has joined the board of directors at EWG. She brings not only enormous influence, but also a longstanding...

Chemicals Targeted for EPA Review Include Carcinogens in Some Consumer Goods

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency named the first 10 chemicals it will evaluate under the new Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, the first update since 1976 of...

Author and Advocate Meg Hirshberg Joins EWG’s Board of Directors

Meg Cadoux Hirshberg, a nationally recognized health and wellness advocate and author, has joined the board of directors at EWG, further raising the group's profile as the nation's leading...

Picking Pruitt for EPA, Trump Signals Campaign Attacks Against Public Health Will Become Policy

The nation's public health protection laws, including those in place to reduce pollution in our air, land and water, will be under withering assault with President-elect Donald Trump's apparent pick...

Big Market for Black Cosmetics, but Less-Hazardous Choices Limited

In a growing market for Black cosmetics, Black women nonetheless have limited choices for products that score low in potentially harmful ingredients, an EWG analysis of more than 1,100 products found...

EWG Statement on EPA’s Top 10 Chemicals

Today the Environmental Protection Agency released its list of 10 priority chemicals. Here is a statement from Scott Faber, EWG's senior vice president for government affairs:

Fields of Filth: First Inventory of Hurricane’s Impact on N.C. Factory Farms

Hurricane Matthew's rampage through North Carolina's coastal plain flooded more than 140 feces-strewn swine and poultry barns, more than a dozen open pits brimming with hog waste and thousands of...

EWG Announces New Jonas Initiative for Children’s Environmental Health

With the generous support of the Jonas Family Fund, EWG is launching the Jonas Initiative for Children's Environmental Health, redoubling EWG's decades-long commitment to children's environmental...

Toxic Chemicals May Contaminate Oil Field Wastewater Used to Grow Calif. Crops

In the last three years, farmers in parts of California's Central Valley irrigated nearly 100,000 acres of food crops with billions of gallons of oil field wastewater possibly tainted with toxic...

New EWG Database Details $30 Billion Spent on U.S. Farm Conservation Programs

In the last decade, U.S. taxpayers have sent $30 billion to farmers and landowners to fund federal conservation programs to protect public health and the environment, according to data obtained...

Think U.S. Agriculture Will End World Hunger? Think Again, Says New Report

U.S. agribusiness spokesmen routinely defend practices that pollute air and water, and destroy soil by claiming that American farmers are doing what it takes to “feed the world.”

Report: Banned for Decades, Dangerous Monsanto Chemical Remains in Thousands of Schools

Up to 14 million students in 26,000 U.S. schools could be exposed to unsafe levels of a notorious class of chemicals banned almost 40 years ago, according to a recent study by scientists at the...

EWG: ‘Brockovich’ Carcinogen Found in Tap Water of 200 Million Americans

Under an Environmental Protection Agency program, from 2013 to 2015, local water utilities took more than 60,000 water samples and found chromium-6 in more than 75 percent of samples. The EPA's tests...

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