Environmental Working Group

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2019  – North Carolina, a state known for the devastating environmental and public health impacts of industrial-scale hog production, now has more than twice as many poultry factory farms as swine operations, according to a new investigation from the Environmental Working Group and Waterkeeper Alliance. The groups’ research found that in 2018, […]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2019 – The Trump administration will not set legal limits for two toxic chemicals that may contaminate more than 110 million Americans’ drinking water, two sources familiar with the upcoming decision told Politico. In his confirmation hearing last month, Andrew Wheeler, acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency, told the Senate Environment […]

WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 11, 2019 – The Trump administration will no longer pursue plans allowing farm operators to let minors spray toxic pesticides on crops. In an undated letter, Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler informed the chair and ranking members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works that his agency will […]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 2018 – President Trump doesn’t believe the alarming climate change report by more than 300 scientists in 13 agencies in his own administration. Asked Monday by reporters why the latest National Climate Assessment, which details the economic and environmental devastation expected in coming decades, was buried on Black Friday, Trump said flatly: […]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2018 – The results of the mid-term elections are a repudiation of President Trump’s pro-polluter agenda that could not have come at a more critical time for the health and well-being of every American, said Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook. “President Trump was right,” said EWG President Ken Cook. “The election […]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2018 – A climate change skeptic who once labeled President Obama’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a communist plot is now the nation’s top environmental enforcement official. Today the Senate narrowly confirmed Jeffery Bossert Clark, a lawyer who defended BP after the Deepwater oil spill, to be assistant attorney general heading […]

WASHINGTON, DC, Sept. 24, 2018 – Newly released satellite images show the devastating pollution from Hurricane Florence’s pounding of the hundreds of industrial-scale hog and poultry farms and open-air animal waste pits in North Carolina’s coastal plain. Photos from the U.S. Geological Survey starkly demonstrate the consequences of concentrating confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, […]

Sept. 18, 2018 – This summer, EWG is tracking outbreaks of potentially toxic algae across the U.S. We have been startled to find that these outbreaks are erupting everywhere: from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Though outbreaks of algae vary in type, severity and […]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2018  –  The Environmental Protection Agency has failed to take the required and necessary steps under federal law to protect children from the dangers of asbestos exposure in the nation’s public and private schools, the agency’s internal watchdog said today. The more than year-long investigation found that EPA had largely ignored its […]

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2018 – A troubling new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that more than a third of the nation’s schools that tested their water for lead found “elevated levels” of the neurotoxin. But despite heightened concern in recent years about lead in drinking water, more than 40 percent of schools […]