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Cosmetics With Banned and Unsafe Ingredients

As FDA officials and the cosmetics industry prepare to huddle behind closed doors, EWG finds hundreds of products containing ingredients the industry itself has determined to be unsafe.
» Read more... | Published September 26, 2007

Trouble Downstream: Upgrading Conservation Compliance

EWG asks Congress to require more environmental protection from farmers in exchange for federal farm subsidies.
» Read more... | Published September 4, 2007

Fluoride in Southern California Tap Water

The Southern California Metropolitan Water District’s plan to fluoridate drinking water, beginning in October, would expose more than 64,000 children to fluoride in excess of government safety limits.
» Read more... | Published August 16, 2007

Toxic Plastics Chemical in Infant Formula

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Infant formula tests reveal that a plastics chemical called bisphenol A leaches from metal can linings into formula at levels which would expose some bottle-fed infants to harmful doses.
» Read more... | Published August 9, 2007

Chlorine Pollutants at High Levels in DC Tap Water

New tests find high levels of hazardous chlorination byproducts in D.C. tap water
In spite of the best efforts of the Washington Aqueduct, tap water tests by EWG from May 2007 reveal toxic by-products of the chemicals used to purify Potomac River water at levels above annual federal health limits. Read the Washington Post story.
» Read more... | Published July 19, 2007

Water pollution caused by cosmetic chemicals, cleaning supplies and plastics

Sources of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals in San Francisco Bay
An EWG study finds that 95 percent of wastewater samples draining into San Francisco Bay show widespread use of hormone-disrupting chemicals. Read the SF Chronicle story, "Danger Feared from Chemicals Getting into Bay."
» Read more... | Published July 11, 2007

Skin Deep

Cosmetic Safety Database
Skin Deep pairs ingredients in nearly 25,000 products against 50 definitive toxicity and regulatory databases, making it the largest integrated data resource of its kind.
» Read more... | Published May 24, 2007

Human Toxome Project

Mapping the Pollution in People
Just as scientists raced to define the human genome, the Human Toxome Project (HTP) at Environmental Working Group is working to define the human toxome—the full scope of industrial pollution in humanity.
» Read more... | Published May 23, 2007

Rigged Game

How Reckless Oil & Gas Drilling on Public Lands Threatens Wildlife Habitat--and Hunting
Drill rigs are invading Western wildlife habitat and hunters are being squeezed out.
» Read more... | Published May 1, 2007

Stolen Inventory

Bush Rollback Will Hide Data on 600,000 Pounds of Toxic Chemicals in California
The Bush Administration has adopted regulations that will dramatically roll back Americans' right to know about chemical hazards in their neighborhoods, allowing California industries to handle almost 600,000 pounds of toxic chemicals a year without telling the public, according to an investigation of federal data by Environmental Working Group (EWG).
» Read more... | Published April 10, 2007
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