Posted by Leeann Brown | Press Associate
Recognized for his efforts in utilizing new media to fight misinformation and weak legislation on toxics and human health, EWG president and co-founder Ken Cook was named one of Huffington Post’s Top Ten Ultimate Green Game Changers.
After weeks of voting, Arianna Huffington announced Ken as the winner on November 18th, describing him as “The Clark Kent of Environmental Activists” and giving him the title “Ultimate Green Game Changer.”
EWG’s leading research on BPA, mercury in fish, and...
A lot of Mercury in a lot of Fish
Posted by Leeann Brown | Press Associate
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released results of an 11-year study showing, for the first time ever, the average concentrations of 268 “persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic” (PBT) chemicals in American lake fish.
Of the 268 chemicals, there were two the agency found in every sample — mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls...
Therapists Focus on Toxics and Kids
Posted by Nils Bruzelius | Executive Editor
Here’s one measure of how much the issue of toxic contaminants’ effects on health and development — especially in children – has gained traction: A continuing education program aimed mostly at psychotherapists is devoting a day-long course to the subject this weekend in Boston.
It’s titled “Toxic Environmental Threats to Children’s...
BPA Wrecks Sex, Fouls Food — and Worse
Posted by Elaine Shannon | Editor-in-chief, EWG
When people ask whether modern synthetics are damaging their health and endangering future generations, Topic A is nearly always bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen, an integral component of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins and one of the highest volume industrial chemicals in existence.
Now a ground-breaking study released in the journal...
EPA Chief’s Call for Toxics Reform: Three Times in Two Months
Posted by Alex Formuzis | Director of Communications
The topic of human exposures to chemical contaminants and the need to overhaul the federal government’s approach to toxics regulation was again on the mind of the nation’s top environmental official in remarks she made last weekend in Philadelphia.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has now delivered three speeches in less than two months calling...
Teflon Oven Liner? Not In My Kitchen
Posted by Dave Andrews | EWG Senior Scientist
By Dave Andrews, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Environmental Working Group
Poking around the kitchen of our new house, Lena and I discovered a flat piece of synthetic something-or-other under the oven’s lower burner. Our landlord proudly explained that it was a Betty Crocker non-stick oven liner, a great labor-saving device.
Well, I’m all for avoiding...
FDA Under Pressure for BPA Food Safety Rules
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...
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...
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