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Obama Administration Punts On Ethanol Mandate Until 2015
The Obama administration today delayed its decision to finalize the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard until next year.
Billions of Gallons Used to Frack “Monster Wells,” Even in Drought Areas
The oil and gas industry insists that hydraulic fracturing of natural gas and oil wells does not threaten America's water supplies. But a new report by Environmental Working Group finds that hundreds...
Report: Rapidly Expanding Frac Sand Mining is Hidden Danger of Fracking Boom in U.S.
Frac sand mining - the extraction of the fine-particle sand needed for hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") of wells -- is expanding rapidly in the United States and poses a little-understood threat to...
New York State Ruling is a Huge Victory Against Fracking Industry
A new ruling by New York's highest court protecting local communities' right to ban oil and gas drilling in their backyards is a “big win for every town across the state fighting to safeguard the...
EWG To Ethanol Lobby: Tell the Truth on the Renewable Fuel Standard
Washington, D.C. -- Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association, has issued a statement calling EWG's new report, Ethanol's Broken Promise: Using Less Corn Ethanol Reduces Greenhouse Gas...
EPA Plan To Reduce Corn Ethanol Mandate Would Cut Carbon Emissions
A proposal now being considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to cut the amount of corn ethanol required in gasoline would lower greenhouse gas emissions by 3 million metric tons...
UN panel calls into question U.S. corn ethanol mandate
A new report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlights the risks biofuels present to food security and the environment and questions the ability of U.S. biofuels...
Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Assessment
EWG Executive Director Heather White released the following statement today on the U.S. Department of State's Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Keystone XL pipeline permit.
Waxman’s Retirement Huge Loss for Environment, Public Health
The departure of environmental and public health champion Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., “will be an enormous loss to anyone who cares about safe drinking water, clean air, food safety and children's...
Obama Energy Plan Threatens Air, Land, Water
President Obama's State of the Union message calling for accelerating natural gas production is “a serious threat to our air, land and water,” Environmental Working Group president Ken Cook said today...
EWG Comments on Ethanol Regulations
Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to reduce the amount of corn ethanol blended into gasoline is a small step in the right direction, EWG said in comments submitted to...
Californians at Risk of Fracking Pollution Because of New Fracking Law
An Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled that a 2013 law put a stop to a lawsuit designed to force the state of California to examine the environmental effects of the highly controversial oil and...
Bill To Repeal Corn Ethanol Mandate Is a Welcome Step
Bipartisan legislation introduced today that would repeal the federal requirement to blend corn ethanol into gasoline is a welcome step toward reform of the biofuels program known as the Renewable...
EWG's Scott Faber Urges Congress to Reform Biofuels Policy
Congress should reform the federal biofuels program known as the Renewable Fuel Standard by reducing the requirement to blend corn ethanol into gasoline and ending corn ethanol's exemption from...
EWG Testifies on Environmental Impacts of Corn Ethanol
The Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to lower the amount of corn ethanol in gasoline is an acknowledgement that the biofuel blending program known as the Renewable Fuel Standard “isn't...
California Releases Draft Fracking Rules
The California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources has today issued draft rules that will, for the first time ever, regulate all forms of oil and gas well drilling in the state, including...
EPA Recognizes Broken Ethanol Mandate Ignores Reality
The Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to lower the amount of corn ethanol blended in gasoline in 2014 acknowledges that the Renewable Fuel Standard program is broken.
Major Fracking Bill Passes Calif. Assembly
Legislation passed today by California legislators would take important steps toward improving oversight of potentially dangerous methods of drilling for oil or natural gas or stimulating production...
EWG to Congress: Corn Ethanol Is Harming the Environment, Consumers
The federal requirement to blend corn ethanol into gasoline is polluting America's air and water, contributing to climate change, hurting consumers and hindering the development of cleaner biofuels...
White House Should Make Water Conservation a National Priority
A detailed executive order making water a major national priority and moving the nation to a clean energy future is being submitted today to the White House for the consideration of President Obama.