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EPA Convenes Panel To Strip Safety Standards That Protect Kids From Cancer-Causing Chemicals

EPA’s Advisory Panel Chaired By Scientist With Ties to Chemical Industry
» Read more... | Published April 4, 2008

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

in the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Energy and Commerce
Critical new studies by scientists at the CDC show that EPA's proposed safe exposure level for rocket fuel is not protective of public health.
» Read more... | Published April 24, 2007

Right-to-Know Rollback will Hide Data on 600K lbs of Toxics in California

The Bush Administration dramatically rolls back Americans' right to know about chemical hazards.
» Read more... | Published April 1, 2007

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

Statement by Anila Jacob, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Scientist with the Environmental Working Group
» Read more... | Published March 28, 2007

Study Hits EPA Plan To Censor Community Pollution Reports

Federal Tracking System Already Misses Persistent, Toxic Chemicals That Accumulate In Wildlife and People
» Read more... | Published January 13, 2006

EWG Supports Proposed Toxics Legislation

Kids-Safe Chemical Act" Would Overhaul Weak Safety Standards
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) strongly supports legislation introduced today by U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Jim Jeffords (I-VT), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Jon Corzine (D-NJ), Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and John Kerry (D-MA) that would overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The legislation, entitled the "Kids-Safe Chemicals Act of 2005," contains much-needed fundamental reforms of TSCA, the nation's notoriously weak chemical safety law. TSCA has not been reformed in nearly 30 years.
» Read more... | Published July 10, 2005