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Science Policy Memo Detailing EWG Findings on C8

Throughout the spring and summer of 2002, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) conducted a series of community meetings on the hazards of drinking tap water contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA, or C8) from DuPont's manufacturing operations in Washington, West Virginia. Our analysis of the content of the materials presented by the DEP at these meetings finds
Mercury

U.S. Mercury Standard Among Worst in World

A joint UN - WHO expert food committee has just recommended a new international standard for mercury in seafood that continues to allow a dangerous mercury exposure level, and is particularly...
Research

EWG Assessment of EPA Draft Human Health Risk Assessment for the Teflon Chemical PFOA

An Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) newly released draft human health risk assessment for the Teflon chemical (C-8, APFO, or PFOA) shows that the Agency has dramatically underestimated human health risks from exposures to this ubiquitous, persistent toxic chemical (EPA 2005). The Agency substantially tilts the assessment in DuPont's favor
Perchlorate
Food

Senator Boxer's letter to FDA

Correspondence regarding perchlorate contamination in food growth in the United States
Toxic Chemicals
Arsenic
Household & Consumer Products

Environmental Working Group calls for Immediate Recall of Arsenic-Treated Playsets and Reimbursement for Consumers

The Environmental Working Group today asked the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to ban the use of arsenic-treated wood in outdoor play structures and to order consumer refunds for millions...
Household & Consumer Products

Ford Hid SUV Rollover Evidence For Decades

Like other car companies, Ford has consistently fought mandatory increases in fuel economy for SUVs and other vehicles by invoking fears that higher mileage requirements would result in smaller, more...
Chemical Policy

NAS Committee Meets on Testing of Pesticides, Toxic Chemicals on Humans

A National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel, requested by the Bush Administration, will meet January 8-9, 2003 to begin its review of the ethics of chemical companies using humans in laboratory tests...
Toxic Chemicals
Food & Water

Glacier's Press Release

Statement by Brian McInerney, President and CEO of Glacier Water Services, Inc.
Toxic Chemicals
Food

EWG Study Finds FDA Out to Lunch on Protecting Women from Mercury in Fish

Internal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) documents obtained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) reveal that the agency is failing in its public health obligation to protect pregnant women and...
Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

Thyroid Toxin Taints Water Supplies for Millions in Calif. & Nationwide

Sources of drinking water for more than 7 million Californians and unknown millions of other Americans are contaminated with a chemical that disrupts child development and may cause thyroid cancer...

Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

Leading Play Structure Manufacturer Goes Arsenic-Free

The East Coast's leading manufacturer of wooden playground equipment, PlayNation Play Systems, Inc., announced today that it will discontinue the use of arsenic-treated lumber, becoming the first...
Toxic Chemicals
Mercury
Food

Government Seafood Consumption Advice Could Expose 1 In 4 Newborns to Elevated Mercury Levels

Government recommendations for fish consumption could expose more than one in four expectant mothers - 1 million women - to enough mercury to put the health of their fetuses at risk, according to a...
Pesticides

EPA sharply restricts consumer use of diazinon, nation's #2 selling home and garden insecticide

Citing excessive risk to children, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today moved to sharply restrict consumer use of diazinon, the nation's #2 selling home and garden insecticide.
Perchlorate
Water

Aerospace contractor pays Californians $1,000 to eat thyroid toxin in first large-scale human test of water pollutant

On behalf of military contractor Lockheed Martin, Loma Linda University is conducting the first large-scale tests of a toxic drinking water contaminant on human subjects -- a precedent medical...
Research

Federal Fluoride Cap Too High

EWG analysis of Metropolitan Water District fluoridation plans, and potential risks to children's health.
Pesticides
Food

Like Strawberries? You'll Love This

The battle over a cancer-causing pesticide often applied to California strawberry fields is over. The maker of the highly toxic methyl iodide has pulled the agriculture pesticide from the American...

Cosmetics
Sunscreen

EWG Statement on Latest FDA Proposed Sunscreen Safety Standards

EWG issued the following statement today in response to the Food and Drug Administration's latest proposed federal safety standards for sunscreens. FDA first announced its intention to implement...
BPA

Federal Panel’s Report on Food Contaminant Flunks Basic Science

The National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) is assessing the health risks of the compound BPA, a toxic ingredient in plastics that...
Asbestos

Senate Panel Passes Asbestos Ban

Eighteen years after the Environmental Protection Agency unsuccessfully attempted to ban asbestos, one of the world's most deadly substances, a Senate panel voted this week to ban the use of the...
Farm Subsidies

Naming (1.5 Million) Names

A new Web site, developed by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) from millions of previously unpublished USDA subsidy records and released today, provides nearly full disclosure of federal farm...
Farm Subsidies

Power Drain

Some of America's richest and largest farms are paying pennies for the vast amounts of electricity needed to deliver irrigation water to California's arid Central Valley.
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Subsidies

EWG President Ken Cook Testifies Before Congressional Committee

Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook testified today before the US House of Representatives Agricultural Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research. Using previously...
Toxic Chemicals

Right-to-Know Rollback will Hide Data on 600K lbs of Toxics in California

The Bush Administration has adopted regulations that will dramatically roll back Americans' right to know about chemical hazards in their neighborhoods, allowing California industries to handle almost...

Environmental, Health, Business and Public Policy Experts Join EWG Board

Six new members have taken seats on the board of directors of Environmental Working Group, collectively bringing with them decades of experience in environmental activism, grassroots organizing...