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What the Biden Administration Should Do To Protect Children From Toxic Pesticides

Friday, January 22, 2021

The administration of President Joe Biden has a mountain of work to do to reverse the damage done by the Trump administration. It should begin by taking swift action to ban and restrict the toxic pesticides the Trump administration allowed in agriculture and on food.

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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Pesticides
Farming

EWG News Roundup (1/22): Toxic Pesticides That President Biden Should Target, EPA Takes Initial Steps To Regulate PFAS and More

Friday, January 22, 2021

EWG News Roundup (1/22): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Consumer Products
Farming
Food
Water

EWG News Roundup (1/15): Follain Commits To Support Black-Owned Brands, Trump EPA Announces 11th-Hour Toxic Rollbacks and More

Friday, January 15, 2021

EWG News Roundup (1/15): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Consumer Products
Farming
Food
Water

Watch for This Harmful Chemical in Your Soda

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Most people know that soda contains sweetener and carbonation, but they may not be aware of an ingredient in some soft drinks that can harm the nervous system – brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, a food additive banned in Europe but allowed in the U.S.

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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Food
Chemicals in Food

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DuPont, Chemours and Corteva Reach $4 Billion Settlement on ‘Forever Chemicals’ Lawsuits

Friday, January 22, 2021
Today DuPont, Chemours and Corteva announced a cost-sharing agreement worth $4 billion to settle lawsuits involving the historic use of the highly toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
PFAS Chemicals

EWG Applauds Biden’s Nomination of Richard Glick To Chair Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Friday, January 22, 2021
The Environmental Working Group applauds President Biden’s nomination of Richard Glick to be chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Initially nominated by then-President Trump, Glick has been a member of the commission since November 2017.
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Key Issues: 
Energy
Renewable Energy
Clean Energy and You
Coal, Natural Gas and Nuclear
Federal and State Policy

EPA Starts Long Process to Set Legal Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Tap Water – But Action Needed Now

Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Today the Environmental Protection Agency took two long-overdue preliminary actions toward regulating the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in Americans’ tap water, committing to set legal limits for the two most notorious PFAS compounds and to test public water systems for more than two dozen others.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
PFAS Chemicals
Water
Tap Water

Still Trashing the Place on the Way Out, Trump EPA Will Scrap Plans To Ban Some Uses of Three Dangerous Chemicals

Thursday, January 14, 2021
In one of the most reprehensible and dangerous decisions by the Trump Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Andrew Wheeler will announce tomorrow that the agency will drop proposals to ban certain hazardous uses for three extremely toxic, even lethal chemicals.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Water
Tap Water