Environmental Working Group (EWG)
The mission of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) is to use the power of public information to protect public health and the environment. EWG is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded in 1993 by Ken Cook and Richard Wiles.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Thursday, December 12, 2019 New York Becomes Third State To Ban Brain-Damaging Pesticide Beginning next year, a neurotoxic pesticide that at low doses can trigger brain and behavioral damage in children will be banned from use by agricultural operations in New York State. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to take immediate steps to... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Report: Trump Considering Former Chemical Industry Shill To Lead Nation’s Consumer Watchdog Agency President Trump is considering nominating a former top chemical industry executive, who at the Environmental Protection Agency has led the rollback of important chemical safety regulations, to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission, according to a report in The Washington Post. EWG once dubbed... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, December 06, 2019 As U.S. Ignores Risks to Kids, E.U. Bans Brain-Damaging Pesticide The European Union today confirmed it will ban the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food crops early next year, citing the risk of brain damage to children – evidence the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ignored in scuttling a proposed ban on the chemical. In August, the European Food... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, December 03, 2019 EPA Chief Promises Year of 'Progress' To Mark Agency's 50th Anniversary To mark the Environmental Protection Agency’s 50th anniversary, agency chief Andrew Wheeler has announced plans for a year-long celebration, promising “to build on our progress for future generations” – a boast that invites skepticism, given the Trump administration’s continued rollback of... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, November 21, 2019 Trump EPA Quashes Chemical Safety Rule to Ease ‘Burden’ on Industry The Environmental Protection Agency today repealed major safety requirements for chemical, agro-chemical and petroleum plants, which President Obama’s administration put in place to protect workers and people who live near more than 12,000 such facilities across the nation. In announcing revisions... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, November 15, 2019 Trump EPA to Weaken Safeguards of Pesticide Linked to Birth Defects, Cancer The Trump administration announced in a document posted Thursday that it plans to weaken environmental safeguards for atrazine, a weedkilling pesticide linked to birth defects and cancer in humans. The change will increase by 50 percent the amount of atrazine allowed in U.S. waterways. Atrazine,... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, November 05, 2019 'Forever Chemicals' in Over 500 N.J. Water Systems and Sources–More Than 1,000 Contamination Sites Nationwide The toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS have been detected in more than 500 New Jersey drinking water systems and groundwater sources, according to the latest state and federal data compiled and mapped by EWG. The 470 new detections reported as of August by the New Jersey Department of... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, November 04, 2019 Trump EPA Rolls Back Coal-Fired Power Plant Waste Rule On Monday, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to roll back regulations on how coal-fired power plants store coal ash waste and dispose of industrial water contaminated with heavy metals, according to The Hill . Coal ash is a highly toxic byproduct of burning coal at power... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, October 10, 2019 Deal Reached to Ban Brain-Damaging Pesticide in California In a major move to protect California children, farm workers and their families, the administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today it has reached an agreement with the pesticide industry to ban the use of a toxic pesticide shown to cause brain damage at even low levels of exposure. According... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, October 01, 2019 Federal Judge: Class Action Suit Against PFAS Chemical Makers Can Proceed A federal judge today allowed a class action case against 3M, DowDuPont, Chemours and six other companies to proceed when it denied every motion to dismiss the case brought by these chemical corporations responsible for producing toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS. The lawsuit was initially... Read more |