Posted by Elaine Shannon | Editor-in-chief, EWG
As a key deadline approaches, scientists and environmental health advocates are ramping up pressure on the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to rein in food contamination from bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic component and synthetic estrogen detected in the bodies of 93 percent of Americans tested.
During the Bush administration, the FDA contended that traces of BPA leached into food and drink from packaging were safe, even for pregnant women, infants and young children. Despite contradictory...
Be Smart About School Cleaning Supplies
Posted by Nils Bruzelius | Executive Editor
What’s in Your Bucket?
– and in the One at Your Kid’s School?
That slightly pungent “clean” smell that you sometimes notice in a freshly scrubbed classroom, restroom — or your kitchen — may be telling you something a lot less appealing.
Environmental Working Group (EWG) studied a sampling of 21 cleaning products that are widely...
New Studies Link Cell Phone Radiation, Tumors
Posted by Elaine Shannon | Editor-in-chief, EWG
Two new international studies implicating cell phone in some forms of brain tumors are deepening scientists’ worries about the long-term consequences of human exposure to cell phone radiation, especially among children and heavy cell phone users.
An Australian-European research team reported in the September 2009 issue of Surgical Neurology that...
Trick or treat? How about lead instead.
Posted by Alex Formuzis | Director of Communications
Laboratory tests commissioned by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (CSC) have found lead, a potent neurotoxin, in 100 percent of 10 popular children’s face paints. The amounts were low – but, as CSC points out, there’s no safe level of lead exposure, which is why the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends protecting children...
Curbing the Erin Brockovich Chemical
Posted by Elaine Shannon | Editor-in-chief, EWG
Back in 1991, a young paralegal poking around in some real estate files noticed a peculiar concentration of cancer in tiny Hinkley, CA.
The rest was almost history.
Erin Brockovich’s find led to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, whose compressor station, California state investigators determined , had polluted the soil and groundwater with millions...
A Historic Conference: The Future of U.S. Chemicals Policy
Posted by Colleen Hutchings | Email Marketing Manager
More than 150 representatives of industry, government, academia and the environmental community voiced a broad consensus this week that the time has come for comprehensive reform of the outdated federal law created to ensure that Americans’ health is not threatened by the thousands of chemicals they encounter in daily life. Click here to read the...
EWG Conference Finds Broad Consensus on Toxic Chemicals Reform
Posted by Nils Bruzelius | Executive Editor
More than 150 representatives of industry, government, academia and the environmental community voiced a broad consensus this week that the time has come for comprehensive reform of the outdated federal law created to ensure that Americans’ health is not threatened by the thousands of chemicals they encounter in daily life.
In the course of a daylong...
Key stakeholders share ideas about TSCA reform
Posted by Lisa Frack, EWG | EWG Online Organizer
The morning session of today’s historic conference exploring routes to federal chemical policy reform made clear that there is now a strong consensus among key stakeholders – industry, the EPA and the White House, the environmental health community – on the need to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
But as the saying goes,...
Beginning of the (long overdue) end for federal toxics program?
Posted by Alex Formuzis | Director of Communications
What happened this week in San Francisco was nothing less than historic.
Lisa Jackson, EPA’s chief and the president’s point-person on environmental policy, began something that should have happened 33 years ago: drive a stake into the heart of the horrendous federal chemicals regulatory program that has left an entire population polluted, beginning...
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