Testimony & Official Correspondence

Personal Care Products Safety Act Letter to Senate Leadership

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced the Personal Care Products Safety Act, S.1014, which would modernize federal oversight of personal care products. The bill offers common sense reforms that were carefully negotiated among numerous stakeholders, including industry, public health and consumer organizations. This bill has garnered support from industry leaders as well as influential health and consumer organizations.

Key Issues:

Consumer Products

Cosmetics

EWG Comments on Prioritizing Chemicals for Risk Evaluation Under New TSCA

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

The new requirements under the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21^st Century Act will for the first time require the Environmental Protection Agency to systematically review existing chemicals on the TSCA inventory. This is an unprecedented opportunity to perform robust risk evaluations and promulgate strong regulations to protect all Americans from the most toxic chemicals in our society.

Key Issues:

Toxics

Chemical Policy (TSCA)

EWG Comments on Chemical Risk Evaluation Procedures Under New TSCA

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

EWG has spent over a decade advocating for reforms to strengthen the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). EPA should use its expanded authority to create a robust, data-driven risk evaluation process that will give it a full picture of a chemical’s risks to the environment and people, including particularly vulnerable populations like children or people residing in fenceline communities.

Key Issues:

Toxics

Chemical Policy (TSCA)

EWG Comments on Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Renewal of Existing Collection

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

We respectfully submit this letter on behalf of the Environmental Working Group, in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to ask the Office of Management and Budget to renew the agency’s information-collecting authority under Section 8(e) of the federal Toxic Substances Control Act

Key Issues:

Toxics

EWG Calls on Mary Kay to Support the Personal Care Products Safety Act

Monday, July 25, 2016

Dear Mary Kay:

I urge Mary Kay to join cosmetic industry leaders – including L’Oreal, Revlon, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble and many others – in support S.1014, the Personal Care Products Safety Act.

Real cosmetics reform is long overdue. In a recent national poll, the majority of your consumers told us they want stricter oversight of personal care products and their ingredients.

Key Issues:

Consumer Products

Cosmetics

Testimony on S.543

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

EWG strongly opposes legislation designed to cripple the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to carry out its essential functions, including S. 543, the EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2015.

Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Dietary guidelines need to inform consumers of the dangers of mercury in certain seafood and provide clear labeling of added sugars in food. These are key elements for establishing effective guidelines that promote healthy, sustainable diets.

Key Issues:

Food

Public Interest Groups on WHO's decision on Glyphosate

Thursday, March 26, 2015

We the undersigned organizations strongly urge the Environmental Protection Agency to weigh heavily the decision last week by the World Health Organization to categorize glyphosate (trade name “Roundup^®”) as “probably carcinogenic to humans”

Key Issues:

Toxics

Chemical Policy (TSCA)