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Now that President Donald Trump has been sworn in, the focus can now shift fully to his incoming cabinet and first presidential actions. Here are several of this week's deep dives into the new...

The man who could be in charge of ensuring the safety of the nation's drinking water doesn't know the most basic fact about a grave health threat for American children: lead contamination of tap water...

Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, claims that as Oklahoma attorney general he achieved a “historic agreement” to clean up chicken manure...

Interests tied to the big polluters who joined Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's 14 lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency – companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and Peabody Coal...

As EWG documented this week, Scott Pruitt – President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency – stymied efforts to clean up chicken manure fouling a protected river as...

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency is a notorious opponent of efforts to cut carbon pollution that causes climate change. The nominee, Scott Pruitt, has...

With President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration only a week from today, questions on what environmental policies he will put in place during his first 100 days in office, as well as who he will pick...

Last fall, an EWG investigation debunked the agriculture industry's claims that American farms “feed the world.” In fact, fewer than 1 percent of U.S. exports go toward feeding the hungriest nations.

In 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency launched a major effort to reduce mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants – standards that could avert up to 11,000...

In a shift that could help hundreds of thousands of U.S. children, federal health officials are considering whether to lower the threshold for identifying kids with elevated levels of lead exposure.

EWG's research on the serious sugar problem in many kids' cereals, published between 2011 and 2014, received renewed attention this week in the media. Other widely covered EWG projects included our...

With President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration coming in just two weeks, the final touches of the transition are being put in place. The Agriculture Secretary remains one of the very few slots left...

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged that providing “crystal clear, clean water” to all Americans will be a top priority of his administration. To make good on his promise, he should adopt the...

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed billionaire investor Carl Icahn as his special adviser on regulatory reform.

A new rule by the Obama administration will require coal mining corporations to take additional steps to protect drinking water sources and nearby forests from being polluted and damaged during...

With this week's nomination of ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical executives for top Trump administration posts, and the former governor of Texas, Rick Perry, tapped to lead the energy department, it's...

The Environmental Protection Agency has just confirmed what communities near many oil and gas production fields have known for years: fracking – the injection of a chemical slurry into drilling sites...

This week was another busy one for folks at EWG. We released a report documenting some troubling facts about cosmetics products marketed to Black women. And we weighed in on President-elect Donald...

President-elect Donald Trump's posture and plans for the nation's environmental and public health laws took their most ominous turn yet with the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to...