Environmental Working Group

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Oct 23, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$5,974,019

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Toxics and human health - EWG's cutting-edge research propels change that protects people from health problems attributed to a wide array of toxic contaminants in food, water, air, and consumer products. EWG's interactive safety guide for cosmetics (Skin Deep) garners 2 million searches monthly. It empowers consumers seeking safer products, and reveals policy gaps that allow hazardous ingredients in everyday products. EWG's national tap-water quality atlas discloses water contaminants in 40,000 communities nationwide and boosts efforts to clean up polluted water supplies. EWG measures the pollution in people through biomonitoring research, testing for more than 500 chemicals in hundreds of volunteers nationwide, and proving that babies are born prepolluted with hundreds of industrial chemicals, pesticides, and pollutants. Using innovative research and strategic advocacy, EWG has helped get hazardous chemicals and products off the market - including the toxic pesticide dursban, arsenic-treated wooden decks and playsets, the synthetic hormone and food contaminant bpa, and toxic teflon chemicals - and products with less hazardous ingredients into people's homes. EWG's work supports national chemical policy reform to close the significant gaps in public health protections that our research reveals.

Activity 3

Natural Resources - EWG's unique data and geo-spatial analyses document the need for strong policies to protect public lands from hard rock mining, oil and gas production, and other extractive industries. EWG testified before the New York City Council Environmental Protection Committee on proposed natural gas drilling in the New York City watershed. Natural gas companies want to use a process called hydraulic fracturing, which involves injecting water laced with toxic chemicals into the ground. The technique threatens environmental health and the safety of public drinking water.

Filer

EIN

52-2148600