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Cracks in the Façade

An Environmental Working Group investigation by Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt has uncovered evidence in a long-forgotten federal report and other documents that chemicals from hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells contaminated drinking water used by two West Virginia families.
» Read more... | Published July 26, 2011

Throwing Good Money at Bad Land

» Read more... | Published September 28, 2010

Drilling Around the Law

Drilling Around the Law
Companies that drill for natural gas and oil are skirting federal law and injecting toxic petroleum distillates into thousands of wells, threatening drinking water supplies from Pennsylvania to Wyoming. Federal and state regulators, meanwhile, largely look the other way.
» Read more... | Published January 11, 2010

EWG Warns of Drilling Threat to NYC Drinking Water

EWG Testifies Before NYC Council
» Read more... | Published October 28, 2009

Coming Up Dry

Drilling on Western lands has gone up 75% a year since 2000, but gas prices have not gone down.
» Read more... | Published July 17, 2008

Colorado's Chemical Injection

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, and other disorders, including cancer.
» Read more... | Published June 10, 2008
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