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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

Trouble Downstream: Upgrading Conservation Compliance

EWG asks Congress to require more environmental protection from farmers in exchange for federal farm subsidies.
» Read more... | Published September 4, 2007

Fluoride in Southern California Tap Water

The Southern California Metropolitan Water District’s plan to fluoridate drinking water, beginning in October, would expose more than 64,000 children to fluoride in excess of government safety limits.
» Read more... | Published August 16, 2007

Chlorine Pollutants at High Levels in DC Tap Water

New tests find high levels of hazardous chlorination byproducts in D.C. tap water
In spite of the best efforts of the Washington Aqueduct, tap water tests by EWG from May 2007 reveal toxic by-products of the chemicals used to purify Potomac River water at levels above annual federal health limits. Read the Washington Post story.
» Read more... | Published July 19, 2007

Water pollution caused by cosmetic chemicals, cleaning supplies and plastics

Sources of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals in San Francisco Bay
An EWG study finds that 95 percent of wastewater samples draining into San Francisco Bay show widespread use of hormone-disrupting chemicals. Read the SF Chronicle story, "Danger Feared from Chemicals Getting into Bay."
» Read more... | Published July 11, 2007

Dead in the Water

An annual flood of wasted fertilizer from heavily farmed land in the Mississippi River Basin runs off into the Gulf, where it feeds the development of massive algae blooms, removing oxygen from the water and creating the Dead Zone.
» Read more... | Published April 10, 2006

National Assessment of Tap Water Quality

More than 200 contaminants with no enforceable safety limits found in the nation's drinking water
More than 200 contaminants with no enforceable safety limits found in the nation's drinking water. Search our database for your water quality reports.
» Read more... | Published December 20, 2005
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