Environmental Working Group
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an American environmental organization that specializes in research and advocacy in the areas of toxic chemicals, agricultural subsidies, public lands, and corporate accountability. EWG is a non-profit organization (501(c)(3)) whose mission, according to their website, is "to use the power of public information to protect public health and the environment."
Founded in 1993 by Ken Cook and Richard Wiles, EWG is headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States. A sister organization, the EWG Action Fund, is the lobbying arm (501(c)(4)) of the organization and was founded in 2002.
Issue areas and projects
EWG works on three main policy or issue areas: toxic chemicals and human health; farming and agricultural subsidies; and public lands and natural resources.
Toxic chemicals and human health
EWG has created a cosmetics safety database which indexes and scores products based on their ingredients. Their Guide to Pesticides in Produce lists 44 fruits and vegetables based on the number of pesticides that they were found to contain according to United States Department of Agriculture data. A series of studies testing for the presence of chemicals in people's bodies is known as body burden. The organization has also constructed a national database of tap water testing results from public water utilities. Their work has extended to a variety of other chemicals, including bisphenol A, perchlorate, mercury, flame retardants, and arsenic in treated wood.
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EWG
ALBUMS
- Plastic Bomb #27: Knuffel Punk released: 1999
Plastic Bomb #27: Knuffel Punk
Released 1999- Wir fahren vom Flaschenpfand in Urlaub
- Mail Bomb
- Punkrock
- America Fix It
- Selfmade Sickness
- I Smell Sth Fishy
- Wir sind raus
- Little Boots
- Unterm Pflaster liegt der Strand
- Big Love
- Bavaria
- A.L.
- Zwecklos
- Dope Head
- Get Out
- Don't Need You
- Bad Bad Reggae
- Budi svoj
- Water
- New Metaphore
- 12 Hours More
- Na rubu
- Dentist's Assistant
- Dich wieder sehen
- Don't Pretend
- [silence]
- Billy Owens
- Motivos de vida
- Without Politics
- Breaker
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