We heartily agree with the judges for honoring Susanne Rust, Meg Kissinger, and Cary Spivak. As the judges said, these dedicated investigative reporters "worked tirelessly to analyze the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its efforts to protect the public from dangerous chemicals found in common household items such as baby bottles and toy rubber ducks. The Journal proved that despite millions of taxpayer dollars spent by the government, the EPA failed to test products for hazards to the body's reproductive, developmental and behavioral systems, particularly impacting fetuses and women of child-bearing age."
As we have learned in our own work here at EWG, reviewing hundreds, sometimes thousands, of public documents to better understand an issue, a process, a failed regulation is an essential step connecting the public and our lawmakers with the information we all need to create effective public policy.