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California Sets Nation’s Toughest Tap Water Limit for Carcinogenic ‘Garbage’ Chemical
In a unanimous vote today, the California Water Resources Control Board adopted a stringent, health-protective drinking water limit for 1,2,3-trichloropropane, or TCP, an extremely potent carcinogen...
Congressional Leaders Push EPA to Scrap or Delay Proposed Bans on Toxic Chemicals
The House Appropriations Committee is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to scrap or delay proposed bans on three highly toxic chemicals – trichloroethylene, or TCE; methylene chloride, or MC...
Trump and Pruitt’s Ax to EPA Budget Threatens Water, Air, Public Health
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s proposed 31 percent cut to the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency will cripple the agency’s ability to protect public health and natural resources...
Trump Proposal Puts Americans at Greater Risk from Toxic Chemicals
President Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt have determined protecting the public from notorious cancer-causing chemicals like asbestos and 1,4-dioxane is far less...
EWG: Trump’s Pullout from Climate Pact ‘Calamitous’ for U.S. and Planet
WASHINGTON – President Trump officially pulled the United States out of the Paris agreement on climate change today – a calamitous decision that will have severe implications for the future of the...
EWG: Trump's Budget Is Roadmap for Dirty Water, Bad Air and Hungry Kids
WASHINGTON – President Trump has proposed a budget that should be welcomed by chemical and pesticide makers and their lobbyists, though it would make ordinary Americans suffer from cuts to public...
In Continued Assault on Public Safety, Key Senate Panel Approves ‘License to Kill’ Bill
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed the so-called Regulatory Accountability Act today, sending the proposal to the full Senate. The bill, dubbed the “License to Kill...
Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Help Protect Consumers from Toxic Chemicals in Personal Care Products
WASHINGTON – A bill introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, would help the federal Food and Drug Administration ensure that cosmetics and other personal care...
North Carolina Lawmakers Side With Big Pork Over Property Rights of Citizens
WASHINGTON – By overriding Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill shielding big hog farms from citizens’ lawsuits, 74 members of the North Carolina House of Representatives slashed the property rights and...
If Trump Exits Climate Pact After G7 Summit, U.S. Would Join Syria, Nicaragua As Holdout
WASHINGTON – President Trump will announce whether he is pulling out of the historic Paris climate change accord after returning from the G7 Summit at the end of this month. If he does, the U.S. will...
White House Cancels Climate Change Meetings, Sparks Speculation On Upcoming Paris Agreement Decision
A high-stakes series of meetings, including one between Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and Ivanka Trump, senior White House adviser and daughter of President Trump, on...
FDA Refuses to Remove Rocket Fuel Chemical from Food Packaging
The Food and Drug Administration denied a petition today by public interest groups, including EWG, to ban the use in dry food packaging of perchlorate, a toxic chemical that is also an ingredient in...
USDA Chief Rolls Back Progress in Nutrition Standards for School Lunches
Only one week after his confirmation as secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue announced Monday that the Trump administration will roll back the health-protective nutrition standards for school meals...
Sen. Portman Pushes Bill to Gut Government’s Ability to Safeguard Consumers
Today, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, introduced the Senate version of H.R. 5, the Regulatory Accountability Act, which would require endless agency studies and two layers of judicial and Congressional...
EWG: Trump’s Policies Endanger Drinking Water for Rural Americans
President Trump's actions during his first 100 days in office will put the drinking water for millions of rural Americans in jeopardy, noted EWG senior vice president for government affairs, Scott...
Mineral Fusion’s EWG VERIFIED® Products Heading to CVS Shelves
Denver-based cosmetics and personal care brand Mineral Fusion will begin selling over 125 EWG VERIFIED® color cosmetics in more than 300 CVS stores in California, making its product line more...
Senate Agriculture Panel Approves Perdue Nomination to USDA
Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee voted today in support of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to be the next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sending the nomination to the...
EWG: Rollback of Clean Power Plan Shows Trump’s Contempt for Public Health
President Trump's executive order gutting the Clean Power Plan shows his disregard for protecting public health and the environment, said EWG President Ken Cook.
Black Farmers and EWG Urge Congress to Increase Farm Subsidy Transparency
The National Black Farmers Association and the Environmental Working Group called on leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture committees today to increase transparency in federal farm subsidy...
Trump Plan to Slash EPA Budget Endangers Public Health
President Trump's plan to slash the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by almost a third will cripple an already underfunded agency, endangering public health and the quality of Americans'...