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EWG Testimony before NYC City Council on Natural Gas Drilling
EWG Testimony before NYC City Council on Natural Gas DrillingTuesday, October 27, 2009Dusty Horwitt, EWG senior counsel, testifies before the New York City Council Committee on Environmental Protection...
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EWG Testifies Before NYC Council on Fracking
EWG Testifies Before NYC Council on FrackingWednesday, October 28, 2009 Dusty Horwitt, EWG senior counsel, testifies on gas drilling and fracking before the New York City Council Committee on...
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Drinking Water Threatened by Toxic Natural Gas and Oil Drilling Chemicals
Drinking Water Threatened by Toxic Natural Gas and Oil Drilling ChemicalsTuesday, January 19, 2010 Companies drilling for natural gas and oil are skirting federal law and injecting toxic petroleum...
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Congress Confirms Drillers Fracked with Diesel
Congress Confirms Drillers Fracked with DieselMonday, January 31, 2011 The Environmental Working Group (EWG) commends the important investigation of hydraulic fracturing released today (Jan. 31) by...
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EWG testifies on behalf of clean drinking water (...and bagels)
EWG testifies on behalf of clean drinking water (...and bagels)Tuesday, March 1, 2011Environmental Working Group's Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt made his fourth appearance today (March 1, 2011) before...
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Obama Must Ensure Safe Gas Drilling
Obama Must Ensure Safe Gas DrillingTuesday, April 12, 2011By Dusty Horwitt, EWG Senior CounselPresident Obama contends that natural gas drilling can help meet his goal of reducing U.S. imported oil...
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Administration Stacks Panel With Big Oil and Gas
Administration Stacks Panel With Big Oil and GasTuesday, May 10, 2011 The Obama administration panel named May 5 to study hydraulic fracturing, a natural gas drilling technique that injects thousands...
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EWG: Chair of Dept. of Energy Natural Gas Panel Must Step Down
EWG: Chair of Dept. of Energy Natural Gas Panel Must Step DownWednesday, June 1, 2011 During a public meeting of the Secretary of Energy’s advisory board on natural gas extraction and hydraulic...
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President's Speech Misses Mark in Addressing Concerns Over Fracking
President's Speech Misses Mark in Addressing Concerns Over FrackingWednesday, January 25, 2012 During last night's State of the Union address, President Obama appeared ready to throw the full support...
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USGS: Some Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmade”
USGS: Some Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmade”Oil and Gas Drilling Implicated
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Cuomo Aide’s Oil/Gas Investments Questioned in N.Y. Fracking Debate
Cuomo Aide’s Oil/Gas Investments Questioned in N.Y. Fracking Debate
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EWG on the election
EWG on the electionWednesday, November 7, 2012 In the wake of the 2012 election, Environmental Working Group has issued the following statements on three key issues central to EWG’s mission: Federal...
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Groups Urge Probe of EPA Actions in Texas Water Contamination Case
Groups Urge Probe of EPA Actions in Texas Water Contamination CaseMonday, February 11, 2013 More than 80 organizations from 12 states and a New York state senator today called on the inspector general...
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Congressmen Target Fracking Loopholes to Stem Pollution
Congressmen Target Fracking Loopholes to Stem PollutionThursday, March 21, 2013 WASHINGTON – Growing numbers of Americans have had to contend with the harmful environmental impacts of oil and natural...
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Methane Hunt Shines Light on Natural Gas
Methane Hunt Shines Light on Natural Gas Friday, April 12, 2013 New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is only the latest of a number of commentators who have been advancing the dubious argument that...
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Fracking Bill Gains Bipartisan Support
Fracking Bill Gains Bipartisan SupportThursday, May 9, 2013 WASHINGTON – Today Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.) reintroduced the bipartisan Fracturing Responsibility and...
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FRAC Act Re-introduced to Senate
FRAC Act Re-introduced to SenateTuesday, July 16, 2013Amid widespread fears that the boom in “fracking” for natural gas poses a growing array of environmental threats, some members of Congress are...
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A Clean Energy Future Starts at the Grassroots
A Clean Energy Future Starts at the GrassrootsWednesday, August 28, 2013Alarmed by current U.S. energy policy, 60 Americans from all over the country came together in 2012 and earlier this year in...
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Fight Back Against Dirty Energy’s PR Machine
Fight Back Against Dirty Energy’s PR Machine Thursday, September 5, 2013The energy industry spends millions of dollars on lobbying and public relations to fend off pressure for necessary changes to...
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