Catch up on the latest news and analysis from EWG’s team of experts.
Displaying 201 - 220 of 369
Is Natural Gas Toxic in Water?
As drilling for natural gas pushes more and more into shale formations in populated areas, the problem of gas bubbling into drinking water is occurring with increasing frequency. Several homeowners...
From Kernel to Grave
For years the federal government wrongly sent millions in taxpayer-funded farm subsidies to dead farmers – a black eye for subsidy defenders and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Now it seems...
Fix the Broken Biofuels Mandate
It's time to face facts: the biofuels mandate Congress established in 2005 is creating too much bad biofuel and not enough good biofuel. This year, that mandate requires American refiners to use 13.8...
EWG’s FracFocus Principles
A growing number of states – Texas, Montana, Colorado and South Dakota, to name a few – are requiring oil and gas drilling companies to disclose the chemicals they use for hydraulic fracturing, or...
Where Does All That Corn Ethanol Come From?
In recent years, millions of acres of America's native grasslands have been plowed under to grow corn for ethanol to blend into gasoline. And new research is clearly pointing to the federal ethanol...
Natural Gas Adds To Greenhouse Problem
In his State of the Union address, President Obama perpetuated a misleading idea -- that natural gas can reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that lead to global warming.
Corn Ethanol: Bad for Farmers, Consumers and the Environment
By driving up the price of food and gas and causing costly engine damage, corn ethanol has been bad news for consumers. And by driving up the price of food, corn ethanol is also costing all of us...
Fuel Stop: Your Weekly Roundup of Ethanol-Related News (Jan. 5-11)
Ethanol related stories for January 5-11, 2013
10 Top Environmental Health Stories of 2012
EWG Seeks Answers About Loophole in Proposed New York Fracking Plan
EWG is requesting records from New York officials to shed light on a potentially glaring loophole in the state's draft plan for regulating high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the event that Gov...
Race, Class, and Climate Change in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy ravaged much of the eastern seaboard, leaving some dead, many without shelter, and all of us wondering how such an event could happen. What we realized, though, is that we can no...
Drilling Rigs: Not So Pretty In Pink
Dairy’s Downward Spiral a Consequence of Broken Biofuels Policy
California dairymen are being regularly referred to suicide hotlines as many go broke from rising feed costs, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Environmental Groups Sue California for Failing to Regulate Fracking
Fracking Leases May Lower Property Values, Default Mortgages
Hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas may enrich drillers - but at a prohibitive cost for some landowners near wells.
New Study Paints Corn Ethanol As Eco-Unfriendly
In May 2009, Steve Ruh, who was then chair of the National Corn Growers Association's Ethanol Committee, called corn ethanol the “most environmentally friendly fuel available today.”
Same Dirty Fuel, Same Dirty Tricks
Corn ethanol boosters held yet another pep rally today (Sept. 27) for a dirty, inefficient fuel that has eliminated jobs, increased the price of food and gas, damaged engines and increased pollution...