EWG News Roundup (3/23): Washington State Bans PFCs in Food Packaging, Pruitt’s Pricey ‘Pasta’, Congress Targets Food Stamps and More
Roundup 3/23: Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
Roundup 3/23: Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
In his first year as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt has spent almost a quarter of a million dollars on first-class seats, military and charter jets, a private phone...
EWG sent a letter to CVS praising its new truth in advertising initiative for cosmetic products. The letter, also sent by mail, was penned following CVS’s announcement.
Surrounded by lobbyists for corporate agribusiness, Trump will find kindred spirits on a wide-range of policy positions.
Attached is a letter by EWG to the Chief Executive Officer of Toyota Motor North America on their recently announced partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency. EWG calls on Toyota backtrack...
The Homegrown Organic Act of 2017 introduced today by Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., would expand market opportunities for America's farmers and ranchers, generate more jobs in the fastest growing segment of...
North Carolina's two Republican senators, Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, will not support President Trump's nomination of Michael Dourson to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection...
U.S. utilities plan to close 75 coal and nuclear power units in the next three years, according to federal data compiled by the Environmental Working Group. But the Trump administration is telling...
Yesterday, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introduced legislation that fails to protect families from dangerous chemical ingredients in personal care products.
WASHINGTON – In a vote along party lines, President Trump’s nominee Michael Dourson was approved by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to be the head of the Office of Chemical Safety...
WASHINGTON – President Trump’s nomination of Kathleen Hartnett-White to chair the Council on Environmental Quality is his latest move to give polluters unfettered, unprecedented power inside the White...
WASHINGTON – Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt plans to stop funding federal prosecutors who hold corporations responsible for polluting communities across the country...
EWG: Another Sign of Trump's Contempt for Democratic Values WASHINGTON – The Trump administration's ongoing war on freedom of information has opened on a new front: barring employees of the nation's...
When you think of chloroform, your thoughts may drift to faint memories of 1970s television shows in which a villain knocks out their victim with chloroform-soaked cloth.
WASHINGTON – By October of this year, the staff at the Environmental Protection Agency will be reduced to levels not seen since the Reagan administration, 30 years ago, according to a report by Brady...
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general is looking into Administrator Scott Pruitt's frequent trips home to Oklahoma – an investigation that could show he's neglecting his...