Chances are you’ve heard the line that the climate crisis affects all of us, wherever we live and whether we know it or not. But how? Especially if you haven’t been personally touched by a climate-related hurricane or drought or other weather event? You don’t have to look far for an answer. In fact, most […]
By Rebecca Long, American Rivers On June 27 Administrator Scott Pruitt of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a roll back of an Obama-era administration policy that protected more than half the nation’s streams from pollution. “We are taking significant action to return power to the states and provide regulatory certainty to our nation’s […]
By Leah Schleifer Droughts in Somalia. Water rationing in Rome. Flooding in Jakarta. It doesn’t take a hydrologist to realize that there is a growing global water crisis. Each August, water experts, industry innovators and researchers gather in Stockholm for World Water Week to tackle the planet’s most pressing water issues. What are they up […]
By Agnel Philip, Elizabeth Sims, Jordan Houston and Rachel Konieczny As many as 63 million people—nearly a fifth of the country—from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring […]
By Robert Coleman In 2016, an EWG report found that chromium-6—a cancer-causing compound made notorious by the film “Erin Brockovich”—contaminated the tap water supplies of 218 million Americans in all 50 states. But our just-released Tap Water Database shows the problem is even worse than that. Based on test results obtained directly from almost 50,000 […]
By Robert Coleman The Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) just-released Tap Water Database shows that a startling number of cancer-causing chemicals contaminate the nation’s drinking water. Of 250 different contaminants detected in tests by local utilities, 93 are linked to an increased risk of developing cancer. We analyzed the tap water data for 48,000 water utilities […]
Heavier rainfall linked to rising temperatures could substantially increase the volume of agricultural runoff flowing into waterways, triggering toxic algal blooms, according to new research. A study published Thursday in the journal Science finds that heavier rainfall could increase nitrogen runoff in U.S. lakes, rivers and streams by 19 percent by the end of this […]
Starting Wednesday, the vast majority of Americans can learn about every potentially harmful chemical in their drinking water and what scientists say are the safe levels of those contaminants. The Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) new national Tap Water Database is the most complete source available on the quality of U.S. drinking water, aggregating and analyzing […]
By Jeremy Deaton and Mariana Surillo Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. And sometimes the game is rigged. When that happens, you can give up—or you can try to change the game. A small town in rural Pennsylvania is doing precisely that. In 2012, Grant Township became a target for fracking waste. Oil and gas […]
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