EWG news roundup (10/1): EWG VERIFIED® highlighted in Walmart’s Built for Better program, EPA ‘forever chemicals’ plan omits thousands of dischargers and more
EWG news roundup (10/1): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
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EWG News Roundup (4/3): PFAS Taints Military Bases, Trump Rolls Back Car Emissions Standards and More
On Thursday, EWG released an updated map that shows toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS are now confirmed or suspected at 678 military installations.
EWG News Roundup (5/5): Salty School Lunches, Rocket Fuel in Food, and N.C. Factory Farms
Here's some news you can use as you begin your weekend.
FDA agrees to renewed call for reassessing health risks of BPA in food packaging
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration finally said it would heed calls from EWG and other top advocacy groups seeking to limit the use of bisphenol A, or BPA, in food packaging, an urgent need...
To Chairman Rush: chemicals in umbilical cord blood – including PBTs – need urgent action
Subject: Industrial chemicals in umbilical cord blood – including persistent and bioaccumulative compounds – need urgent action
FDA Must Curb BPA
While other federal public health and environmental agencies have targeted the plastics ingredient bisphenol A (BPA) as a chemical of concern to human health, the Food and Drug Administration has...
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Pollution in Minority Newborns
Laboratory tests commissioned by EWG have detected as many as 232 toxic chemicals in cord blood samples collected from 10 minority newborns. Notably these tests show, for the first time, bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic component and synthetic estrogen, in umbilical cord blood of American infants.
Risks of Plastic Chemical Add Up for Infants
Statement of Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Environmental Working Group to the National Research Council Meeting 2 – Committee on the Health Risks of Phthalates
EWG News Roundup (7/16): Glyphosate in Hummus, States Failing Farmworkers During COVID-19 Pandemic and More
EWG News Roundup (7/16): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
California Urged To Add Bisphenol-A (BPA) To Prop 65 Toxics List
Oral testimony of Bill Allayaud, Director of Government Affairs, California Office, Environmental Working Group before the meeting of California Office of Environmental Health and Hazard Assessment's...
Everything You Need to Know About California’s Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act
A piece of legislation winding its way through the California legislature could be the biggest influence on U.S. cosmetics safety for close to a century. The bill would ban a dozen of the most...
EWG News Roundup (2/3) Pruitt, PFCs in Food, Harvard, Truth-Challenged White House and More
Holy smokes, what a week. It began with reports from EWG and others showing food wrappers from several top fast food chains were contaminated with toxic PFCs. The Senate broke its own rules to force a...
What you can do about the environmental risk factors that can lead to breast cancer
Cancer affects all communities. And breast cancer can occur in people of all genders
Spotlighting women’s health for Women’s Health Month
Women’s relationship to the environment is unique in many ways, with lifestyle choices and habits presenting special challenges, because some of the personal care products they use may contain harmful...
EWG news roundup (12/17): California regulators poised to increase cost of rooftop solar, keeping skin healthy during winter and more
EWG news roundup (12/17): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
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We combine peer-reviewed research, data analysis and groundbreaking consumer tools with expert communications and advocacy to bring about changes in policy, consumer demand and market behavior. These...
EWG News Roundup (Dec. 2): EPA Action, the Farm Bill, Food and Toxic Detergents
Heading into the holiday season, there was some good news out of the EPA. The agency listed the first batch of toxic chemicals it will tackle, which includes asbestos. Also this week, EWG took part in...
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Poisoned Playgrounds
The wood in most playground sets, picnic tables and decks contains potentially hazardous levels of the same poison at the center of the debate over the safety of America's drinking water: arsenic. An Environmental Working Group analysis finds that even if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency keeps its promise to lower permissible levels of arsenic in drinking water, it will not be able to
Testing for pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the New York City drinking water supply
EWG's Olga Naidenko testifies before the New York City Counsel Committee on Environmental Protection in support of a proposed law to require testing for pharmaceuticals and personal care product...
Re-doubling my commitment to organic food
There's nothing to make you feel like a dope like a bunch of experts telling you you're wasting your money by buying organic food. And after the recent review of the issue by Stanford University...
EWG News Roundup (6/30): Tap Water Endangered for 117M, Trump’s Pay-to-Spray and Best Budget Sunscreens
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California Policy Linked to Higher Flame Retardant Exposures
The new study by EWG and Duke University researchers shows that the exposures to the two chemicals were higher in Calif. than in a similar study done earlier in N.J.
EWG Letter to CERHR, Re: Interim Draft Report on Bisphenol A
Download a PDF of this letter. June 20, 2007 Dr. Michael D. Shelby Director Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction National Institute of Environmental Health Services Department of...
EWG News Roundup (7/26): EWG’s Two Decades of PFAS Research and Advocacy, Ohio Bails Out Nukes and More
EWG News Roundup (7/26): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
