Testimony & Official Correspondence

Environmental Working Group objects to the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to apply the outdated, insufficiently protective radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposure limits to 5G technology and to RF emissions above 6 GHz. EWG urges the Commission to withdraw this proposal and to restart the RF exposure limits reevaluation process.

Key Issues: 

Toxics

Consumer Products

Cell Phones

Click on the pdf above to see a joint letter from EWG, other environmental health organizations and public health institutions calling on Congress to pass vital legislation to ensure that healthy, safe and affordable food is available to all and to minimize the challenges facing farmers, food workers and farmworkers who are risking their own health to keep our food system going.

Key Issues: 

COVID-19 & Your Health

COVID-19 & Food

The Environmental Working Group is writing to urge ATSDR, an agency on the front lines of the fight to protect public health from PFAS pollution, to provide on its website the most robust, easily accessible information for the public, medical professionals and policymakers.

Key Issues: 

Toxics

PFAS Chemicals

The Environmental Working Group submits comments to the EPA on the registration review for the herbicide metolachlor. EWG urges the EPA to use a tenfold children’s health safety factor for this chemical and to lower the chronic reference dose for metolachlor exposure.

Key Issues: 

Toxics

Pesticides

Food