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 Friday, November 02, 2018 Is EPA’s Climate Change Website Gone for Good? The section of the Environmental Protection Agency’s website that linked human activity, fossil fuels and carbon dioxide to climate change seems to have disappeared for good. This week the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative , or EDGI, which monitors any changes to federal agency... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, October 31, 2018 Tests Reveal More Weed Killer Than Some Vitamins in Kids’ Cereals Tests found more of the weed killer glyphosate than of some vitamins in samples of oat-based breakfast cereals marketed to children, an Environmental Working Group analysis shows. Laboratory tests commissioned by EWG found levels of glyphosate, first produced by Monsanto as Roundup, in samples of... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Roundup for Breakfast, Part 2: In New Tests, Weed Killer Found in All Kids’ Cereals Sampled A second round of tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group found the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer in every sample of popular oat-based cereal and other oat-based food marketed to children. These test results fly in the face of claims by two companies, Quaker and... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Asbestos Imports Surge as Trump White House Moves to Keep Deadly Carcinogen Legal Asbestos imports to the U.S. soared by nearly 2,000 percent between July and August, according to federal import data analyzed by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and Environmental Working Group. According to the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Department of Commerce,... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, October 16, 2018 White House Drops Scheme to Bail Out Coal, Nukes The White House has reportedly shelved a plan by Energy Secretary Rick Perry to prop up the failing coal and nuclear industries by making operators of regional electric grids buy power from aging coal and nuclear plants. Politico reported that President Trump’s advisors on the National Security... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, October 04, 2018 Map: Florence Drenched Thousands of North Carolina CAFOs and Animal Waste Pits Hurricane Florence’s torrential rains pelted areas of North Carolina that are home to more than 1,500 industrial animal operations with more than 1,000 nearby animal waste storage cesspools. These operations have the potential to annually produce as much as four billion gallons of wet swine waste... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, October 03, 2018 White House Strikes Discussion of Impacts of Climate Change on Children’s Health from Draft EPA Rule The White House removed key language documenting the heightened risks climate change presents to children from a draft EPA proposal to repeal a rule to reduce heat-trapping chemicals leaking into the atmosphere, according to new documents first reported by E&E News . The chemicals, known as... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, September 28, 2018 Even the Trump Admin. Predicts Catastrophic Rise in Global Temperatures by 2100 – and Says It’s Useless to Try to Stop It The Trump administration, led by a president who called climate change a hoax and is gutting efforts to cut carbon emissions, predicts global temperatures will rise catastrophically by the end of the century – and that there’s no use trying to stop it. The Washington Post and E&E News have both... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, September 05, 2018 Local Limits on Spraying Monsanto’s Toxic Weed Killer in Parks, Playgrounds and Schoolyards Blocked by House Republican Farm Bill More than 50 city and county ordinances banning the use of the toxic weed killer glyphosate on local playgrounds, parks and schoolyards could be overturned by a provision championed by House Republicans in their version of the farm bill, an EWG analysis found. A four-page provision tucked away in... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, August 21, 2018 Trump’s Scheme to Repeal Clean Power Plan Means More Kids with Asthma, More Early Deaths, Dirtier Air This morning, the Environmental Protection Agency released the Trump administration's plan to let states regulate air pollution from coal-fired power plants, which would mean more children suffering from asthma, more Americans dying early deaths and only miniscule reduction of global warming... Read more |