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Calif. Lawmakers Send Gov. Brown Sweeping Blueprint to Protect Children and Workers from Lead Exposure

Tuesday, September 4, 2018
With overwhelming bipartisan support, state lawmakers have sent Gov. Jerry Brown a suite of landmark proposals to safeguard Californians, from preschool to the workplace, from lead.
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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Lead
Water
Tap Water

EPA Watchdog Blasts Former Agency Chief Scott Pruitt Over Spending on Security

Tuesday, September 4, 2018
oday, the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general released a scathing account of the abuses of taxpayer money by former agency head Scott Pruitt, who resigned in disgrace after a scandal-ridden 18-month tenure.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Energy
Water

EWG Statement on the EPA Nomination of Alexandra Dapolito Dunn

Friday, August 31, 2018
Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group, issued the following statement today on the nomination of Alexandra Dapolito Dunn as the Assistant Administrator for the EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Farming
Water

EWG Seeks USDA Records on $12 Billion Payout for Farmers Hit by Trump’s Trade War

Tuesday, August 28, 2018
The Environmental Working Group has petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture for all records concerning its decision to pay up to $12 billion to farmers harmed by retaliatory tariffs levied on U.S. agribusiness by China and other nations in response to the Trump administration’s trade war.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Subsidies

Due to His Own Trade War, Trump Gives Nearly $5 Billion in Taxpayer Money to Mega Farms

Monday, August 27, 2018
The Trump administration released details today on its emergency aide package in the form of direct payments for big farm operations, with the bulk of the taxpayer aid flowing to U.S. soybean farmers.
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Subsidies

New Bipartisan Senate Legislation Aims to Spur Federal Response to PFAS Crisis

Friday, August 24, 2018
The contamination of drinking water and groundwater by toxic fluorinated compounds, known as PFAS chemicals, is a national crisis demanding a national response.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Nonstick Chemicals
Water

Trump’s Scheme to Repeal Clean Power Plan Means More Kids with Asthma, More Early Deaths, Dirtier Air

Tuesday, August 21, 2018
President Trump’s plan to let states regulate air pollution from coal-fired power plants would mean more children suffering from asthma, more Americans dying early deaths, and only miniscule reduction of global warming pollution, warned Environmental Working Group.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Energy
Renewable Energy
Fossil Fuels

EWG Responds to General Mills and Quaker Oats: ‘Legal Is Not the Same as Safe’

Wednesday, August 15, 2018
The Environmental Working Group is disappointed that General Mills and the Quaker Oats Company have brushed aside consumer health concerns raised by new research that found the cancer-causing weed killer glyphosate in Quaker Old Fashioned Oats, Quaker Dinosaur Egg Instant Oatmeal and Cheerios.
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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Pesticides
Farming
Food

Roundup for Breakfast? Weed Killer in Landmark Cancer Verdict Found in Kids’ Cereals, Other Oat-Based Foods

Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Popular oat cereals, oatmeal, granola and snack bars come with a hefty dose of the weed-killing poison in Monsanto’s Roundup, according to independent laboratory tests commissioned by EWG. These new findings come days after a California jury awarded $289 million to a school groundskeeper who claimed Roundup gave him lymphom
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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Pesticides
Farming
Food

Court Rebukes EPA, Orders Ban on Pesticide That Harms Kids’ Brains

Thursday, August 9, 2018
In a scathing opinion, today a federal court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban chlorpyrifos, a toxic pesticide linked to brain damage in children.
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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Pesticides

Johnson & Johnson Will Give Consumers More Information About Fragrance Ingredients

Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Today Johnson & Johnson, one of the largest multinational manufacturers of consumer packaged goods, announced a new transparency initiative that will provide additional details on fragrance chemicals used in its Johnson’s baby products.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Consumer Products
Cosmetics

Sen. Udall Joins Citizens From Across U.S. to Denounce EPA Delay on TCE Bans

Tuesday, July 31, 2018
On Wednesday, Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., will join Americans impacted by the industrial solvent trichloroethylene, or TCE, to demand that the Environmental Protection Agency carry out proposed bans on high-risk uses of the carcinogenic compound.
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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Water
Tap Water

Notorious Cancer-Causing Solvent TCE Taints Tap Water for 14 Million Americans

Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Tap water supplies for more than 14 million Americans are contaminated with a cancer-causing industrial solvent made notorious by the book and film “A Civil Action,” according to an Environmental Working Group investigation released today.
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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Chemical Policy (TSCA)
Water
Tap Water

EPA Watchdog Slams Agency’s Response to Flint Tap Water Crisis

Thursday, July 19, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency failed to respond quickly and forcefully enough to the crisis of lead in the tap water of Flint, Mich., in 2014, the agency’s inspector general said in a report today. EWG said the report should push the Trump administration to take immediate steps to safeguard the nation’s drinking water from lead contamination and reduce children’s exposure to the potent neurotoxin.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Lead
Water
Tap Water

More Than 40 Percent of U.S. Schools Fail to Test for Lead in Drinking Water

Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Despite heightened concern in recent years about lead in drinking water, a troubling new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that more than 40 percent of the nation’s schools failed to test for lead in 2016.
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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Lead
Water
Tap Water

Federal Watchdog: More Than a Third of Schools Tested Have ‘Elevated Levels’ of Lead in Drinking Water

Tuesday, July 17, 2018
A troubling new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that more than a third of the nation’s schools that tested their water for lead found “elevated levels” of the neurotoxin. But despite heightened concern in recent years about lead in drinking water, more than 40 percent of schools surveyed conducted no lead testing in 2016.
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Key Issues: 
Children's Health
Toxics
Lead
Water
Tap Water

EWG’s 2018 Guide to Bug Repellents Can Help Fend off Disease-Carrying Ticks, Mosquitoes

Tuesday, July 17, 2018
A number of factors should come into play when you’re choosing a bug repellent: what part of the country you live in, where you plan to travel, whether you’re pregnant and whether you are planning to use the product on children. EWG’s 2018 Guide to Bug Repellents can help you find the right product for yourself and your family.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Consumer Products

Groups File FOIA Request for EPA-Industry Communications Over Agency Decision to Ignore Key Exposures to Asbestos, Other Toxic Chemicals

Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Today American Oversight and the Environmental Working Group petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency for release of documents detailing contacts between former EPA chief Scott Pruitt and the chemical industry ahead of the agency’s decision to exclude major sources of exposure when evaluating the health risks of asbestos and three other highly toxic chemicals.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Asbestos
Consumer Products

Russian Asbestos Giant Praises Trump Administration Actions to Keep Deadly Carcinogen Legal

Wednesday, July 11, 2018
One of the world’s biggest producers of asbestos, a Russian company with ties to Vladimir Putin, is praising President Trump for allowing asbestos to remain legal in the U.S.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Asbestos

Pruitt’s Legacy: Worst EPA Chief in Agency’s History

Thursday, July 5, 2018
After 18 months of ethical scandals, profligate spending of taxpayer dollars and rollbacks of public health protections, Scott Pruitt has resigned as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. He leaves a legacy as unquestionably the worst head of the agency in its 48-year history, said EWG President Ken Cook.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Water

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