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, July 18, 2019 EPA’s Wheeler Keeps Brain-Damaging Pesticide Legal for Use on Foods Kids Eat Farmers can keep spraying fruits and vegetables with a pesticide shown to harm a child’s brain even at low levels of exposure, the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency said today. With a court deadline looming, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced his decision to allow... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, July 18, 2019 EPA Data: Under Trump, a Sharp Increase in Unhealthy Air in Big Cities The number of unhealthy air days in nearly three dozen cities soared in the first two years of the Trump administration, according to an annual air pollution report released Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA report said dangerous air days in 35 of the largest U.S. cities... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, July 08, 2019 Trump Touts Fictitious Environmental Record President Trump, who has the worst environmental record in U.S. history, is scheduled to deliver a speech today in which he plans to tout his administration’s environmental record. “I don’t envy the fact checkers covering President Trump’s speech,” said EWG President Ken Cook. “The spectacle of the... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, June 13, 2019 3M Study Found PFAS in Food Nearly 20 Years Ago Laboratory tests conducted nearly 20 years ago that have gone largely unreported found high levels of the toxic fluorinated chemical known as PFAS a number of popular supermarket foods. The tests were commissioned by 3M, the giant chemical company that first manufactured the two most notorious... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, May 29, 2019 EWG Seeks Details Over Trump EPA’s Decision To Kill Funding for Children’s Health Centers Environmental Working Group has filed a public records request seeking internal records that could help shed light on the EPA’s decision to jettison funding for a network of research centers that focus on the risks to children of toxic chemicals and industrial pollution. The decision would end a 20... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, May 24, 2019 Trump EPA Sets Tap Water Limit for Rocket Fuel Chemical 3X Higher Than Agency Scientists Recommend The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to set a drinking limit for a toxic rocket fuel chemical three times higher than agency scientists recommended during the Obama administration. This week, the EPA announced it plans to implement a legal limit for perchlorate... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, May 13, 2019 Jury Slams Bayer-Monsanto in Latest Roundup Cancer Trial For the third time in less than a year, a California jury has delivered a stinging blow to Bayer-Monsanto, finding that the company’s Roundup weedkiller caused cancer in a California couple. Today the jury in Alameda County Superior Court found that glyphosate, the signature ingredient in Roundup,... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, May 06, 2019 Mapping the PFAS Contamination Crisis: New Data Show 610 Sites in 43 States The known extent of contamination of American communities with the toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate, with no end in sight. As of March 2019, at least 610 locations in 43 states are known to be contaminated, including drinking water systems serving an... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 30, 2019 Trump EPA Sides With Bayer/Monsanto Over Science, Claims Cancer-Causing Weedkiller 'Safe' The Environmental Protection Agency said today the active ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto's carcinogenic weedkiller Roundup is safe, ignoring a growing body of independent research showing a strong connection between glyphosate and cancer in humans. "Today's decision by Administrator Wheeler, like... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Former EPA Head Scott Pruitt Hired as Lobbyist to Save Coal in Indiana. (He Can’t) A major coal mining company in Indiana has hired former Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt to lobby against plans to close several coal-fired power plants in the state. Hallador Energy Company issued a news release heralding its decision to hire Pruitt “to attempt to protect the... Read more |