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Judicial Integrity

Conflict of Interest Charge Clouds Prospects for Judicial Nominee With Penchant For Anti-Environmental Junkets
» Read more... | Published January 1, 2000

Attack of the Killer Weeds

Pesticide Hypocrisy on Capitol Hill
Ever since Congress passed a stronger pesticide law in 1996 designed to increase protection for children, EPA has been using an obscure loophole to authorize 'emergency' uses of untested pesticides on food crops.
» Read more... | Published December 14, 1999

Power Plants Caught Cheating

US Sues Electric Utilities for Clean Air Act Violations
The Justice Department and USEPA announced actions against 32 power plants that they claim are operating in violation of the Clean Air Act. Click here to download a list of plants.
» Read more... | Published November 3, 1999

Mercury Falling

An Analysis of Mercury Pollution from Coal-Burning Power Plants
Coal-burning power plants are the single largest source of mercury pollution, and the only major source the government does not regulate.
» Read more... | Published November 1, 1999

Ban Dursban

Government finds excessive risks in widely used insecticide
A massive government review has concluded that the most widely used insecticide in the United States poses excessive safety risks to millions of Americans each year.
» Read more... | Published October 28, 1999

Above the Law in California

How California's Major Air Polluters Get Away With It
Two years after a federal investigation found California's clean air enforcement programs inadequate to stop big polluters, an EWG analysis shows that many of the state's largest industrial facilities continue to break the law and pay fines too small to
» Read more... | Published July 28, 1999

Bureaucrats to Fat Cats

EPA Pesticide Program is a 'Farm Team' for the Pesticide Lobby
EWG found that a striking number of EPA's top pesticide officials have gone on to assist toxic pesticide manufacturers in circumventing and delaying EPA's efforts to protect public health.
» Read more... | Published June 30, 1999

Reading, Writing and Risk

Air Pollution Inside California's Portable Classrooms
More than 2 million California children attend school in portable classrooms that may be a significant source of exposure to airborne toxins, including formaldehyde and other cancer-causing chemicals.
» Read more... | Published May 27, 1999

Above the Law

How the government allows major air pollutors off the hook
A first-ever analysis of newly available government records shows that over a third of large industrial corporations have violated the Clean Air Act (CAA), the nation's cornerstone air pollution law, in the past two years.
» Read more... | Published April 30, 1999
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