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California

Toxic Chemicals in Oil and Gas Drilling Waste: The List Grows Longer

New tests of wastewater discharged from oil and gas drilling in Pennsylvania and West Virginia show that water tainted with high levels of toxic chemicals is ending up in rivers and streams.

Midwest
Energy
Midwest
Farming & Agriculture

EPA Watchdog Probes Climate Pollution from Dirty Corn Ethanol

The federal Renewable Fuel Standard is supposed to promote fuels that emit less global warming pollution than gasoline. But it's done just the opposite, stimulating a boom in ethanol made from corn...

Energy
Midwest
Farming & Agriculture

Corn Lobby Sells Snake Oil in New Ads

New television ads paid for by the corn lobby are touting ethanol as a way to lower gas prices, but common sense and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office tell us just the opposite.

Toxic Chemicals
Energy
Utilities
Fossil & Nuclear
Federal & State Energy Policy

Trump’s Bailout of Coal and Nuclear Plants Could Cause Thousands of Early Deaths, Send Utility Bills Soaring

In his continuing crusade to prop up dying industries, President Trump wants to make Americans pay for expensive electricity from dirty, dangerous coal and nuclear power plants – even if cheaper...

Children’s Health
Energy

Trump EPA’s Fake Math: Clean Air Doesn’t Save Lives, So Burn More Coal

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to use a bogus method for estimating premature deaths from air pollution, dramatically lowering the death toll to help justify President Trump's decision to...

Energy
Renewable Energy

The Global Clean Energy Revolution: Plunging Costs, Soaring Health and Economic Benefits

A decade ago, only a tiny fraction of the nation's electricity came from renewable energy. Today, wind and solar power, and the batteries to store it, are dramatically reshaping the energy landscape...

Toxic Chemicals
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Food

French Government Moves to Ban Some Monsanto Glyphosate Weed Killers

Remember when we warned you that Americans are at greater risk of being exposed to Monsanto's glyphosate herbicide than Europeans? Well, that might become even truer if the French government follows...

Mercury

Media Falls Hook, Line and Sinker for Fish Industry Line on Mercury

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) issued the following statement today in response to media outlets that reported on a fish industry study urging pregnant women to disregard FDA guidance on fish...
Research

Sundown on the Sagebrush Rebellion

Since the Sagebrush Rebellion of the late 1970s, industries that profit by taking resources from Western public lands – logging, oil and gas drilling, and mining – have stirred up opposition to increased environmental regulation by painting their critics as outsiders – do-gooders from Washington, D.C., trampling on the Rocky Mountain West's proud heritage and hardscrabble economy.
Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

CDC Study Shows Boston Area Infants Exposed to Dangerous Rocket Fuel Ingredient through Breast Milk

An Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis of recently published data from scientists at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Boston University (BU) shows that infants are being exposed to...
Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

Environmental Working Group's Statement in Support of the "Safe Drinking Water for Healthy Communities Act of 2007" Introduced Today by Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis

"Tests by the CDC and independent researchers have confirmed that many Americans are carrying the rocket fuel ingredient, perchlorate, in their bodies in amounts that lower thyroid hormone levels, in...
Chemical Policy

Chemical Lobby Gets Its Way in U.S. Senate

For several years now, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been warning of the risks associated with bisphenol A (BPA) – especially the BPA in baby bottles, sippy cups and cans of infant formula...
Research

EPA Axes Panel Chair at Request of Chemical Industry Lobbyists

At the request of a chemical industry lobbyist, the Environmental Protection Agency removed the chair of an expert peer review panel charged with setting safe exposure levels for a toxic fire retardant that contaminates human blood and breast milk, according to documents obtained by EWG.
Mercury
Food

Environmental Working Group's Statement on Lancet Seafood Study

This study supports the long-standing advice of the federal government, the Environmental Working Group, and many other organizations: women should eat seafood during pregnancy known to be low in...
Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

Under Proposed Rocket Fuel Standards, Many Women Would Need Treatment to Protect Baby

Exposure to a rocket fuel chemical widespread in the U.S. drinking water and food supply, at levels equal to or lower than national and state standards, could cause thyroid deficiency in more than 2...
Food & Water
Food

When Should You Buy Organic?

If you're concerned about food safety, you probably already look for organic produce at the supermarket. But if you can't always buy organic, you can still dramatically lower your family's exposure to...
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Toxic Chemicals

Across Generations: The Chemical Pollution Mothers & Daughters Share and Inherit

The unique bond between a mother and daughter starts in the womb and lasts a lifetime. This Mother's Day, lab tests of mothers and their daughters show that they share another, unwanted bond: a common...
Farm Subsidies
Conservation

Farm Subsidy Reform Key to Restoring Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone"

Each year, an average of $270 million worth of wasted fertilizer flows down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, creating a "Dead Zone" of more than 5,000 square miles that is completely...
Toxic Chemicals
Arsenic
Lead
Mercury
Food

House Set To Nullify State Consumer Safety Programs Under Pressure From Corporate Food Lobby

The House votes today on a bill pitting giant food companies against the health and safety of American families—a measure that could nullify state laws warning consumers about mercury in fish, lead in...
Farming & Agriculture

Seizing a Watershed Moment

Agriculture is a leading source of water pollution in the 10 states that border the Mississippi River. Agriculture is also the leading source of pollution causing the “Dead Zone” at the mouth of the...
Toxic Chemicals
Chromium-6
Food & Water
Water

Chrome-Plated Fraud: Scientific Integrity and Chromium Toxicity

A consulting firm hired by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) to fight the "Erin Brockovich" lawsuit distorted data from a Chinese study to plant an article in a scientific journal reversing the study...
Energy

Real Estate Developers with Mining Claims Near Las Vegas Could Still Purchase Land

Proposed fixes to heavily criticized mining legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. James A. Gibbons (R-NV) could still cost Nevada schools more than $120 million, slash $100 million per year in taxes...
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water

Feds Set to Give 400 Farms More Water Than L.A., S.F., San Diego Combined

The federal government is about to make a deal to give a few hundred California farmers control of more water than Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego combined use in a year — at pennies on the...
Conservation

Energy Independence and Transportation Spending

Policy needs to change at the federal and state levels. For decades, federal transportation dollars have gone overwhelmingly to road projects. State transportation spending has also favored roads over...