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In this podcast episode, EWG President and co-Founder Ken Cook’s guest is DJ Gerken, president and executive director of the Southern Environmental Law Center, or SELC. SELC is the largest environmental nonprofit organization in the southeastern United States. It campaigns for all Americans to have access to clean water, clean air and a liveable climate.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A powerful coalition of environmental, climate, clean energy, consumer and economic justice advocates is calling on California legislators to reject Assembly Bill 942, a proposal that threatens to undermine the state’s clean energy progress by making solar energy less affordable for millions of households. A.B. 942 would break long-standing contracts with solar consumers who installed rooftop solar systems under state-mandated agreements guaranteeing fair terms for 20 years.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – On April 9 the California Assembly Education Committee voted to advance a bipartisan bill to phase out by 2032 “particularly harmful” ultra-processed food, or UPF, from school meals served in the state. If enacted, A.B. 1264 would task state scientists to work with University of California experts on identifying UPF to ban. This work would be based on scientific research on the food’s links to disease and health harms.

MINNEAPOLIS – A new report from the Environmental Working Group shows the shocking extent of a widespread public health crisis: Over 122 million Americans drink water with high levels of cancer-causing disinfection byproduct chemicals. Manure runoff from livestock factory farming operations contributes to the problem, as it reacts with public water systems’ disinfectants to create these byproducts.

Donate today and join the fight to protect our environmental health. Everyone deserves access to safe and clean food and water. We push for tougher regulations to keep our food and water safe. Nothing is more vital to life than water. But our drinking water, streams and lakes are threatened by farm pollution. Agriculture is the leading source of pollution of rivers and streams, but we can protect our water with simple changes in the way we farm.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California is one step closer to protecting millions of residents from tap water contaminated by the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. The Assembly’s Environmental Safety and Toxics Materials Committee on April 8 advanced a drinking water bill that includes setting enforceable state PFAS water standards.

By August, food and drink companies can no longer use the chemical brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, in their products. That’s thanks to an overdue federal ban on BVO as an ingredient, in response to concerns about its potential health harms with long-term exposure. Some beverage makers aren’t waiting for the August deadline to comply with the Food and Drug Administration’s ban.

In this podcast episode, EWG President and co-Founder Ken Cook talks with Peter Galvin about the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda, and its implications for public health. Galvin is one of the founders, and current director of programs, of the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity.

Eliminating federal limits in drinking water on the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS could end a vital safeguard against continued pollution for 1.3 million New Yorkers.