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Health and Environment Advocates to Congress: Support National Children’s Study

Tuesday, July 26, 2011
In a letter to the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations, national and state environmental and health organizations called for full funding of the National Children’s Study.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Chemical Policy

California Issues Standard for Erin Brockovich Chemical

Wednesday, July 27, 2011
The California Environmental Protection Agency has set a public health goal of 0.02 parts per billion for drinking water contamination with the carcinogenic compound hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Chromium-6
Water
Tap Water

EWG Meat Eater’s Guide Spotlights Beef’s Outsize Carbon Footprint

Monday, July 18, 2011
The Environmental Working Group today released its groundbreaking Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change and Health , a powerful, multi-featured tool that allows both consumers and experts to understand easily how food choices affect both their environmental footprint and their health.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Environment
Food
Local & Sustainable
Healthy Eating

Disapproval of Fracking Panel Grows

Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Religious leaders, community representatives, environmental groups and health advocates from 100 organizations representing 2 million people in 13 states have united to protest the U.S. Energy Department's decision to set up an advisory panel on hydraulic fracturing dominated by people with financial ties to the natural gas industry.
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Key Issues: 
Fracking

Senators Target Ethanol Tax Credit

Tuesday, June 7, 2011
A deal brokered by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) to end tax credits and tariffs that subsidize the U.S. ethanol industry is a step in the right direction.
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Key Issues: 
Energy
Biofuels

Baby Products BPA Ban Heads to CA Senate

Monday, June 6, 2011
Legislation to ban the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A from baby bottles and sippy cups sold in California is moving to the California Senate floor.
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Key Issues: 
Chemical Policy
BPA

Health Care Bill for Camp Lejeune Vets, Families Moves Forward

Thursday, June 9, 2011
Today’s Senate committee vote to provide medical care for veterans and families made ill by contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune marks an important advance in the effort to address health problems of an estimated 750,000 Americans.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Chemical Policy

Just In Time for the 4th of July: EWG Adds New Products to Sunscreen Guide

Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Since releasing the 2011 Sunscreen Guide in May, Environmental Working Group has received dozens of requests from companies and supporters alike asking to add more of their favorite products to the database rating more than 1700 sun protection products.
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Key Issues: 
Consumer Products

EPA Misfires on New Misfueling Rule

Tuesday, June 21, 2011
For three decades, the politically well-connected corn ethanol industry has been able to harness government support without much thought to the fuel’s harm to health, the environment and engines. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a final rule that attempts to keep consumers from using too high of an ethanol blend in their cars, trucks and small and off-road engines.
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Key Issues: 
Energy
Biofuels

Broad Coalition Condemns Unbalanced Gas Drilling Panel

Monday, June 27, 2011
Community leaders, environmental organizations, faith-based groups and health advocates are calling on Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to reform the industry-dominated Natural Gas Subcommittee he set up to investigate safety issues raised by hydraulic fracturing.
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Key Issues: 
Fracking

EPA: Water Wells Contaminated Near Fracking Blowout Site

Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Underscoring the risks to drinking water supplies of hydraulic fracturing, three water samples collected from private wells following a blowout at a Chesapeake Energy Corp. natural gas drilling site in northeast Pennsylvania have been found to be contaminated, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said today.
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Key Issues: 
Fracking

Despite Claims of Reform, Subsidy Band Marches On

Thursday, June 23, 2011
As the Senate Agriculture Committee meets today to discuss accountability and spending on farm programs, new data washes away the gloss of reform used by the subsidy lobby and its champions in Congress to pass the 2008 farm bill. The new data clearly proves that little has changed in America’s misguided and broken farm subsidy programs.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Subsidies

National, State Groups Back Health Care for Camp Lejeune Vets, Families

Thursday, June 23, 2011
Veterans and their families made ill by contaminated well water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina should not have to fight to get medical care and services.
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Key Issues: 
Chemical Policy
Water
Tap Water

Fracking Panel Schedules Follow-ups to Contentious Hearing

Monday, June 20, 2011
Following up on last week’s contentious hearing in Washington, Pa., the U.S. Energy department has scheduled two all-day sessions for Tuesday, June 28, and Wednesday, July 13, to listen to people concerned about controversial hydraulic fracturing operations in shale gas fields.
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Key Issues: 
Fracking

Grand Canyon and Colorado River Temporarily Protected from Uranium Mining

Friday, June 17, 2011
The Obama administration today took an emergency measure to bar new mining claims on a 1-million-acre area around the Grand Canyon until December. At that time, administration officials indicated they hope to come up with a more comprehensive solution to protect one million acres around Grand Canyon National Park from new mining claims for the next 20 years.
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Key Issues: 
Mining

Senate Votes To End Thirty-Three-Year-Old Ethanol Subsidies

Thursday, June 16, 2011
The U.S. Senate voted today 73 to 27 to repeal the ethanol tax credit and ethanol tariff. This historic vote, which came on an amendment to S. 782, the Economic Development Revitalization Act, signifies the Senate’s willingness to put an end to more than 30 years of government subsidies for ethanol, a mature industry that is pressuring farmers to plant environmentally-sensitive land and pushing up food prices that disproportionately affect the poor and hungry of developing countries.
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Key Issues: 
Energy
Biofuels

House Votes to Cut Off Subsidies for Brazilian Cotton Farmers

Thursday, June 16, 2011
A majority of the House of Representatives today approved an amendment that would end U.S. taxpayer-funded subsidies for Brazilian cotton farmers in one of a series of votes on an appropriations bill to fund agriculture and rural development programs for fiscal year 2012.
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Key Issues: 
Subsidies

FDA Sunscreen Rules Too Little and VERY Late

Tuesday, June 14, 2011
The federal Food and Drug Administration’s new sunscreen rules, released today after nearly 33 years of deliberations, fall short.
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Key Issues: 
Chemical Policy
Consumer Products

EWG'S 2011 Shopper's Guide Helps Cut Consumer Pesticide Exposure

Monday, June 13, 2011
Environmental Working Group has released the seventh edition of its Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce with updated information on 53 fruits and vegetables and their total pesticide loads. EWG highlights the worst offenders with its “Dirty Dozen” list and the cleanest conventional produce with its “Clean 15” list.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Pesticides
Food
Chemicals in Food

Conflict at the Canyon

Monday, June 13, 2011
The Obama administration’s imminent decision on the future of uranium mining near the Grand Canyon could be swayed by the analysis of a mining industry consultant who stands to reap hundreds of thousands of dollars if the moratorium on new uranium claims is lifted, according to a new report from Earthworks and the Environmental Working Group.
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Key Issues: 
Mining

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