Environmental Working Group

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Contents 1 Summary 1.1 Scares and Scams 1.2 Notable and Notorious 2 Offshoots, Affiliates and Confederates 2.1 Activist Groups 2.2 Businesses 3 Additional Resources 3.1 Profiles 3.2 Analysis and Comnmentary

Summary

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an organization in the radical environmental movement.

Scares and Scams

EWG's scares include: air pollution, asbestos, benzene, bisphenol A (BPA), body burden, cell phones, chromium-6, cosmetics, drinking water, flame retardants, fluoridation, hydraulic fracturing, lead, mercury, methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), nitrates, nuclear energy, perchlorate, pesticides and pesticide residues, phthalates, and teflon.

• Enviros Protest Engineer's Nomination to EPA Fracking Panel, New York Times, October 5, 2010.
  • EWG letter to EPA, October 1, 2010.

Notable and Notorious

• Board Members
  • David Baker, founder and executive director of Community Against Pollution.
  • Rev. Sally Bingham, "environmental minister" at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and the founder and executive director of The Regeneration Project, a nonprofit ministry "deepening the connection between faith and the environment." (Source: EWG.org)
  • Sandy Buchanan, executive director of Ohio Citizen Action.
  • Ken Cook, co-founder and EWG president.
  • Steven Damato, organic food industry businessman.
  • John Peterson Myers, CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences.
  • Drummond Pike, chairman.
  • Laura Turner Seydel, a "national environmental activist and eco-living expert," founder of groups like Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Captain Planet Foundation, and Mothers & Others for Clean Air, and advisory board member of Atlanta’s Zero Waste Zone, Georgia Conservancy, Earth Share of Georgia and Defenders of Wildlife.
  • Perry Wallace, environmental law professor at American University.
  • Meredith Wingate, anti-coal activist at the Energy Foundation.
  • Alicia Wittink, trustee of the Park Foundation (Ithaca, NY), board member for the Center for a New American Dream and Mother Jones magazine, and co-founder of DC EcoWomen’s Hour.
• Staff
  • Ken Cook, co-founder and president.
  • Richard Wiles, co-foiunder and senior vice president.

  Offshoots, Affiliates and Confederates

  Activist Groups

  • Allergy Kids Foundation
  • Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow
  • American Fertility Association
  • Boston Self Help Center
  • Breast Cancer Action
  • Breast Cancer Fund
  • California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
  • Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
  • Cancer Schmancer
  • Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ)
  • Clean Water Action
  • Clean Water Fund
  • Clean New York
  • ClimateCounts.org
  • Commonweal
  • Connecticut Nurses' Association
  • Environmental Defence Canada
  • Environmental Health Trust
  • Environmental Health Fund
  • Friends of the Earth
  • Healthy Child, Healthy World
  • Making Our Milk Safe (MOMS)
  • Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition
  • MomsRising.org
  • National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
  • National Black Environmental Justice Network
  • National Environmental Trust
  • National Toxic Encephalopathy Foundation
  • National Organization for Women
  • Next Generation
  • New York Nurses Association
  • Oregon Environmental Council
  • Physicians for Social Responsibility
  • Shaping Youth
  • Rhode Island State Nurses Association
  • Teens Turning Green
  • Washington Toxics Coalition
  • Women’s Voices for the Earth

  Businesses

  • Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
  • SHAN So Healthy And Natural Skin Care

Additional Resources

Profiles

• ActivistCash.com
• Capital Research Center
• Who is the Environmental Working Group (EWG)?, Personal Care Blog, July 8, 2010.

Analysis and Comnmentary

• Stier J and Miller H, Don't buy into the chromium-6 hysteria, San Jose Mercury News, January 11. 2011.
• Dini J, Chromium: Where’s The Balanced Reporting?, Hawaii Reporter, December 29, 2010.
• Logomasini A, Environmental Working Group Should Win Annual Junk-Science Award, OpenMarket.org, December 23, 2010.
• Milloy S, EWG pulls an ‘Erin Crockovich’, GreenHellBlog.com, December 19, 2010.
• McWilliams J, Pesticide Politics, Freakonomics Blog (NYTimes.com), October 20, 2010.
• Miller H, By Reporting Bad Science As Fact, Biased Media Help Create Panics, Investor's Business Daily, October 19, 2010.
• Goldberg R, Pseudoscience activists, trial lawyers use media to muddy debates, San Francisco Examiner, October 17, 2010.
• (we already have a) Safe Cosmetics Act, Natural Bar Soap Company Blog, September 2, 2010.
• Foxon-Hill A, Toxins In, Toxins Out: The Campaign for Scaring the Pants Off Us, Personal Care Truth Blog, September 1, 2010.
• Stier J, Don’t be misled about BPA, Kennebec Journal, August 29, 2010.
• Sanders C, I Have Been Lied to. I Feel Betrayed. Am I being Raped? Part – 2, Paul Penders Blog, August 26, 2010.
• Barker L, The Safe Cosmetics Act needs to be more in tune with science, CosmeticsDesign.com, August 25, 2010.
• Berman R, Public interest groups care about headlines, not people, Daily Caller, August 25, 2010.
• Sanders C, Finally, I Have Worked Out What The Story of Cosmetics is Really About, Personal Care 101 Blog, August 24, 2010.
• Caswell E, The Precautionary Principle: A Cautionary Tale, GCDSpa Blog, August 2, 2010.
• Fumento M, Cellphone Fear in San Francisco, Forbes Online, July 6, 2010.
• Oxybenzone Discussion, Rocky Mountain Sunscreen, July 2010.
• BPA Scare Campaign Exposed – How to Profit from Non-Profits, FightNanny.com, May 10, 2010.
• BPA Scare Campaign Exposed - All the News That's Not Fit to Print, JunkScienceMom.com, May 6, 2010.
• BPA Scare Campaign Exposed - David Fenton, The Puppet Master, JunkScienceMom.com, April 30, 2010.
• Whelan E, On Earth Day, Praise BPA, The Daily Caller, April 22, 2010.
• Fumento M, Celling Fear: The Cell Phone Scare that Refuses to Die, January 22, 2010.
• Logomasini A, Not So Peachy Advice, Townhall.com, October 14, 2009.
• Ross G, EWG Fears America's Vegetables, American Council on Science and Health, August 13, 2009.
• EWG Misleads Consumers About Parabens, The Beauty Brains Blog, November 5, 2008.
• Schissel M, Sound Science vs. the Anti-Fluoridation Gang (EWG and FAN), American Council on Science and Health, September 6, 2007.
• Butterworth T, Water Worries: Does an EPA Expert Need a Chemistry Lesson?, STATS.org, July 20, 2007.
• Butterworth T, How Activist Groups Run The News, STATS.org, January 31, 2007.
• Goldin R, San Francisco Chronicle’s Cosmetic Scare, STATS.org, October 11, 2006.
• Butterworth T, More Crazy Teflon Coverage, STATS.org, January 27, 2006.
• Butterworth T, Media Ignore Activist Warnings Over Alleged Chemical Threat, STATS.org, January 18, 2006.
• Butterworth T, FDA Letter Dismisses Activist Group’s Concerns Over DuPont Chemical Test, STATS.org, January 10, 2006.
• Fumento M, Media Breaks Rules for Green Groups, Scripps Howard News Service, December 1, 2005.
• Schissel M, Time and the Anti-Fluoride Cause, American Council on Science and Health, October 31, 2005.
• Scientists Denounce Scaremongering Activists,l Center for Consumer Freedom, September 20, 2005.
• Butterworth T, A Health Scare That Stinks?, STATS.org, June 27, 2005.
• Avery D, Is Baby’s Milk “Contaminated” With Rocket Fuel?, Center for Global Food Issues, March 11, 2005.
• Mercury-In-Fish Scare All Wet, Center for Consumer Freedom, March 26, 2004.
• Milloy S, Eco-Extremism, Not Science, Behind Fishy Salmon Scare, FoxNews.com, January 16, 2004.
• Milloy S, Hit-and-Run Pesticide News, FoxNews.com, October 24, 2003.
• Milloy S, Greens to Launch New Scare Campaign, FoxNews.com, January 17, 2003.
• Milloy S, Clean-Up Confusion, FoxNews.com, September 27, 2002.
• Logomasini A, Consumers Pay The Price For Ban On Treated Wood, Detroit News, April 9, 2002.
• Fumento M, Give Him a Break: Stossel Sent to Scaffold for His Taboo Targets, Investor's Business Daily, August 21, 2000.
• Milloy S, The Greens' Yellow Science, FoxNews.com, August 11, 2000.
• Fumento M, Baby Killer or Just a Weed Killer?, Investor's Business Daily, August 4, 1999.
• Fumento M, Attack of the Killer Vegetables, Washington Times, March 9, 1999.
• Fumento M, Test Anxiety — Why Are Environmentalists Afraid of Pesticide Research?, Reason Magazine, December 1998.
• Fumento M, Environmentalist Mythology That Harms Kids, Fumento.com, June 18, 1998.
• Fumento M, Scare Tactics Pose Real Threat to Children's Health, Fumento.com, 1996.
• Fumento M, The Anatomy of a Public Scare, Investor's Business Daily, July 16-23, 1993.