Ken Cook

President

Ken Cook is widely recognized as one of the environmental community’s most prominent and influential critics of industrial agriculture, U.S. food and farm policy, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and federal pesticide and chemicals policy, and children’s environmental health, among other issues.

Cook is a sought-after public speaker on these and other environmental issues and is frequently cited for the outsize impact that his and EWG’s work have had on policy debates in Washington and in state and local governments across the country.

Cook testifies regularly before Congressional committees and has given well received talks at a variety of venues including the White House, South by Southwest (SXSW), TEDx Manhattan and a number of other conferences and universities.

He has addressed food, agriculture and toxics policy in countless media interviews, including with 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, the Today Show, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX Business News, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times and The San Francisco Chronicle.

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External Publications

In The News

These fires are the result of decades of criminal neglect on the part of PG&E, which is now asking ratepayers to shell out billions for damages.

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Ken Cook
Newsweek

[This] will only set back California’s drive to make solar and wind the prevailing sources of electricity in the state.

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Ken Cook
CalMatters

PFAS pollution is a global problem. This map is just the beginning.

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Ken Cook
New York Post

By now the American public should assume that just because a pesticide is legal doesn’t mean it is safe. DCPA is the most recent in a very long line of examples.

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Ken Cook
Common Dreams

This decision by the Biden administration is misguided and sets a dangerous precedent for other regulated energy states and utilities to keep aging, dilapidated nuclear plants operating.

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Ken Cook
EcoWatch

It can only add to PG&E's potential liabilities if they're cutting back the workforce that they depend on to make sure that we're going to be relatively safer from wildfire risks.

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Ken Cook
ABC 7