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Getting ‘forever chemicals’ out of drinking water: EWG’s guide to PFAS water filters

Taking ‘forever chemicals’ out of drinking water: EWG’s guide to PFAS water filters. Discover the most effective water filters for reducing PFAS contamination in your water. EWG's extensive tests...

July 11, 2023

EWG investigation: Dangerous agricultural chemical chlormequat found in popular oat-based products

A new EWG investigation finds for the first time troubling concentrations of the toxic agricultural chemical chlormequat in oat-based products sold in the U.S., including everyday brands marketed to...

January 31, 2023

Federal & State Energy Policy

Power and profit: How PG&E fails California ratepayers and what to do about it

EWG’s utility business model would create a more balanced policy and regulatory regime for PG&E customers. It is designed to hold the company responsible for its investment patterns and shift...

June 16, 2022

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Fossil & Nuclear

California

Outrageous costs, deadly dangers: The real risks of keeping Diablo Canyon open

July 25, 2023

If something costs tens of billions to keep, without any clear financial benefits to ratepayers but with the risk of nuclear catastrophe, prolonging it would be folly. But that’s what supporters of...

Federal & State Energy Policy

Power and profit: How PG&E fails California ratepayers and what to do about it

June 16, 2022

EWG’s utility business model would create a more balanced policy and regulatory regime for PG&E customers. It is designed to hold the company responsible for its investment patterns and shift...

Renewable Energy

Fossil & Nuclear

Federal & State Energy Policy

The promise of the clean energy economy for American workers

April 6, 2021

One week after taking office, President Biden signed sweeping executive orders outlining ambitious plans to tackle the climate crisis and speed the transition to a clean energy economy, and promised...

Utilities

Renewable Energy

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North Carolina

Duke Energy’s Epic Fails: $11.6 Billion in Scrapped Projects Since 2013

August 31, 2020

In July, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy canceled the $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Six months earlier, Duke and three partners canceled the $1 billion Constitution Pipeline. These surprising...

Federal & State Energy Policy

North Carolina

Tone Deaf: The Facts Behind Duke Energy’s Low-Income Programs

June 3, 2020

In a November 2017 interview, Lynn Good, CEO of Duke Energy, said: “Affordability is really important, whether you are a consumer with low discretionary income or you’re an industrial company that’s...

Utilities

Fossil & Nuclear

Federal & State Energy Policy

Picking Losers: Why Coal and Nuclear Interests Are Desperate for a Ratepayer Bailout

November 10, 2017

FERC data compiled by EWG show why the Trump administration's friends in the coal and nuclear industries are desperate for a ratepayer bailout: Their plants are losing billions of dollars, and without...

California

Federal & State Energy Policy

Toxic Chemicals May Contaminate Oil Field Wastewater Used to Grow Calif. Crops

October 26, 2016

In the last three years, farmers have irrigated 95,000 acres of food crops with billions of gallons of oil field wastewater possibly tainted with toxic chemicals.

Midwest

Federal & State Energy Policy

Better Biofuels Ahead

November 3, 2015

Biofuels produced from switchgrass and post-harvest corn waste could significantly reduce the emissions that contribute to climate change, according to an analysis by EWG and University of California...

California

Federal & State Energy Policy

California’s Fracking Fluids

August 12, 2015

The fluids used in hydraulic fracturing of oil wells in California contain dozens of chemicals that are hazardous to human health, including substances linked to cancer, reproductive harm and hormone...

California

Federal & State Energy Policy

Toxic Stew

March 10, 2015

Wastewater from hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells in California is heavily contaminated with a toxic stew of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, an analysis by Environmental...

Midwest

Fossil & Nuclear

Federal & State Energy Policy

Monster Wells

November 18, 2014

Despite Drought, Hundreds of Fracking Sites Used More Than 10 Million Gallons of Water

California

Federal & State Energy Policy

Vitter Pressures EPA Inspector General

August 6, 2014

For Sen. David L. Vitter (R-La.), there's no more appealing target than the Environmental Protection Agency.

Midwest

Federal & State Energy Policy

Ethanol's Broken Promise

May 29, 2014

Ethanol's Broken Promise: Using Less Corn Ethanol Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions

California

Federal & State Energy Policy

Cuomo Aide’s Oil/Gas Investments Questioned in N.Y. Fracking Debate

September 11, 2012

As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo nears a decision on whether to lift the state's moratorium on shale gas development, filings with the state ethics commission reveal that one of his top advisors may be...

California

Federal & State Energy Policy

USGS: Some Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmade”

April 4, 2012

A U.S. Geological Survey research team has linked oil and natural gas drilling operations to a series of recent earthquakes from Alabama to the Northern Rockies.

California

Federal & State Energy Policy

California Regulators

February 29, 2012

The state agency responsible for regulating oil and gas drilling in California has long turned a blind eye to the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), insisting as recently as this year that...

Midwest

Federal & State Energy Policy

Ethanol Report 2012

February 17, 2012

Beware of higher ethanol gas. E-15 fuel could void warranties, damage small engines.

California

Federal & State Energy Policy

Gas Drilling and Fracking

June 30, 2011

Hydraulic fracturing has been around for decades. But now, natural gas producers are deploying a new gas drilling method called high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing to release gas locked in...

Federal & State Energy Policy

Free Pass for Oil and Gas

March 26, 2009

Oil and natural gas companies have drilled almost 120,000 wells in the West since 2000, mostly for natural gas, and nearly 270,000 since 1980, according to industry records analyzed by Environmental...

Federal & State Energy Policy

Coming Up Dry

July 17, 2008

As the White House and some members of Congress call for more domestic oil and gas drilling, federal and industry data show that the Bush Administration has allowed more drilling on Western federal...

Midwest

Federal & State Energy Policy

Biofuels and Bad Weather

June 16, 2008

When the Bush administration and Congress required gasoline refiners to blend in 15 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol by 2015, they made the impossibly rosy assumption that American farmers would...

Fossil & Nuclear

Midwest

Federal & State Energy Policy

Colorado's Chemical Injection

June 10, 2008

Oil and gas companies in Colorado are injecting wells with millions of gallons of unknown fluids that contain dozens of dangerous chemicals linked to respiratory, neurological, cardiovascular, immune...

Fossil & Nuclear

Midwest

Federal & State Energy Policy

Grand Canyon Threatened by Approval of Uranium Mining Activities

January 29, 2008

In an ominous move, the Forest Service has approved drilling for uranium at as many as 39 sites near the Grand Canyon's south rim, marking what may be the beginning of a rush to mine the radioactive...

Fossil & Nuclear

Midwest

Federal & State Energy Policy

Colorado’s Pristine Roan Plateau Threatened by Drilling Surge

December 16, 2007

As Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter prepares to take a stand on federal plans to allow thousands of oil and gas wells on Colorado's Roan Plateau and surrounding land, an investigation by Environmental...

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Chemical companies provide quarterly reports on production and sales figures to shareholders. Why shouldn’t the public and EPA receive similar reports every year about commonly used chemicals, some of which could pose a serious health risk?”

David Andrews, Ph.D.

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Conservation

USDA conservation funding ‘guardrails’ vital for reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

April 24, 2024

When Congress provided almost $20 billion in Department of Agriculture funding for climate-smart farming practices, it included legislative “guardrails” to ensure the money goes to practices that...

Cosmetics

Best bang for your buck mascaras

April 22, 2024

It’s prom season, which means millions of teenagers across the U.S. will be getting done up for one of the most high school experiences. It’s a time for “promposals,” dancing and getting enough...

PFAS Chemicals

What they’re saying about the EPA’s ‘hazardous substances’ designation for two PFAS

April 19, 2024

On April 19 the Environmental Protection Agency designated two of the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and...

Water

PFAS Chemicals

What does the EPA’s new hazardous substances designation for two ‘forever chemicals’ mean?

April 17, 2024

More than 5,000 sites across the U.S. are polluted with the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, creating an urgent national health and environmental crisis. The Biden administration took a...

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