The Environment

The EPA will not be able to protect the nation's children from arsenic unless it regulates arsenic in pressure-treated wood.

Shooting ranges are poisoning children and polluting the environment with lead, yet remain almost entirely unregulated-exempt from even the Bush Administration's new lead pollution reporting rules.

Independent scientific monitoring by the Environmental Working Group found high concentrations of a partially banned pesticide in the air San Joaquin Valley residents breathe.

Citing excessive risk to children, the US Environmental Protection Agency moved to sharply restrict consumer use of the nation's #2 selling home and garden insecticide.

Gov. George W. Bush's approach to pollution control has been a major factor in making Houston the nation's smoggiest city and Texas our smoggiest state.

A twice-aired 20/20 report falsely maligning organic foods prompts EWG to respond. ABC news reprimands John Stossel and suspends show's producer.

Tens of thousands of underground storage tanks are leaking MTBE and other toxic chemicals into California's water and soil -- but for the vast majority of them, the state has never ordered cleanups or assessed fines.

According to a recent study from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), state officials are falling down on the job of enforcing basic environmental laws. In the 1980s many governors asked for environmental enforcement responsibility to be shifted from the federal government to the states, but a months-long computer investigation by EWG shows that rather than cleaning up the nation's air and water the states are passing on the most basic of enforcement activities - inspecting the worst known polluters.

Despite a 1991 lawsuit settlement promise, California has failed to identify or provide care for an estimated 200,000 lead-poisoned children since 1992 .

Despite an August, 1999 ban by the federal government, an apple pesticide deemed too dangerous for children's foods has shown up in new tests of apples from Washington State.