EWG’s official statements on legislation and policies.
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EWG applauds House bill to protect safety of infant and toddler food
The Environmental Working Group applauds legislation introduced today by Reps. Emilia Sykes (D-Ohio), Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) and Tony Cardenas (D-Calif.) requiring the...
EWG applauds EPA move to prioritize vinyl chloride review
The Environmental Protection Agency will designate vinyl chloride a high-priority chemical for review. Vinyl chloride, largely used to make plastic, is known to cause serious harms, such as cancer...
Clean energy advocates decry California’s disastrous decision to slash residential solar program, triggering widespread job losses and bankruptcies in the state’s solar industry.
Clean energy advocates decry California’s disastrous decision to slash residential solar program, triggering widespread job losses and bankruptcies in the state’s solar industry.
Statement from EWG on EPA's updated lead and copper rule
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a comprehensive approach to addressing the long-standing public health challenges posed by lead in drinking water by proposing new standards to...
Statement from EWG on enactment of baby food heavy metal testing law
Today Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 899, which requires baby food manufacturers selling their products in California to conduct routine tests of the final product for toxic heavy...
Statement from EWG on Gov. Newsom’s veto of three bills to protect public health
Gov. Gavin Newsom on October 8 vetoed three bills sponsored by the Environmental Working Group – one targeting lead in schools’ drinking water and the other two aiming to ban the toxic “forever...
Statement from EWG on the passing of Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the longest-serving female senator in the history of the United States, has died. She was 90 years old.
EWG speech at the Cato Insitute
WASHINGTON – EWG Senior Vice President for Government Affairs Scott Faber delivered the following remarks before the Cato Institute on Wednesday, September 27. Though first enacted during the...
EWG speech at the Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Conference
EWG Senior Vice President for Government Affairs Scott Faber delivered the following remarks before the Unitarian Universalists Advocacy Conference on Tuesday, September 26.
EWG applauds appointment of Jim Jones as FDA deputy commissioner
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf today announced that Jim Jones, a former long-serving Environmental Protection Agency chemical safety office leader, will be appointed the...
EWG applauds climate and agriculture research investments by USDA
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the Department of Agriculture will invest $300 million through President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda to improve measurement, monitoring...
Widely used soda, food artificial sweetener is possible carcinogen, WHO cancer research arm finds
A determination by top cancer authorities will rule that aspartame, a common sweetener in sodas and food, is “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” according to sources familiar with the expected...
Gov. Newsom’s gas price penalty proposal targeting Big Oil sails through Senate
California’s Senate today passed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to give state energy regulators the authority to punish Big Oil refiners for hiking gas prices in the future.
Ruffalo: “EPA should be accelerating – not delaying – government actions that limit industrial releases” of PFAS
WASHINGTON – On January 20, the Environmental Protection Agency released a plan for regulating wastewater pollution, including discharges of the “ forever chemicals ” known as PFAS. The Effluent...
Over 100 groups press Biden administration to set ‘forever chemicals’ drinking water standards without further delay
WASHINGTON – More than 100 community and environmental organizations, including the Environmental Working Group, today urged the Biden administration to swiftly propose standards to protect drinking...
Ruffalo: "No longer profitable for 3M to poison us"
The following is the statement of Activist and Actor Mark Ruffalo on 3M’s announcement.
House oversight documents reveal Big Oil’s “greenwashing” climate claims to hide investments in fossil fuels
Big Oil companies are “greenwashing” with claims that they embrace clean energy even though behind closed doors they dismiss the effort and remain wedded to dirty fossil fuel investments, a House...
EWG statement on Reagan-Udall Foundation FDA report
The following is a statement from Scott Faber, Environmental Working Group senior vice president for government affairs, on the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s Operational Evaluation of FDA’s Human Foods...
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EWG: $1B in federal funds to extend Diablo Canyon nuclear plant’s life is misguided
The Biden administration today announced it will give Pacific Gas & Electric more than $1 billion in federal funding to keep the aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California operating past...
Leading California clean energy, environmental justice advocates to discuss state’s proposal to gut rooftop solar program
Prominent clean energy and environmental justice organization leaders will hold a live virtual event on November 17 to discuss how California utility regulators are proposing to hobble the state’s...
