drinking water

Erin Brockovich Calls on EPA to Finally Set Standard for Carcinogen Found in Millions of Americans’ Tap Water

By EcoWatch / August 16, 2016

As news about North Carolina’s governor and his administration downplaying the risks of drinking water contaminated with hexavalent chromium unfolds, two leading environmental health advocates are pushing the Obama administration to finally set a nationwide standard for the highly toxic chemical. Erin Brockovich, a noted environmental health advocate and the Environmental Working Group (EWG) President […]

6 Million Americans in 33 States Are Drinking Toxic ‘Teflon Chemicals’ With Their Water

By EcoWatch / August 11, 2016

Are Chemicals in Drinking Water Giving People Cancer?

By EcoWatch / December 5, 2013

Another Maine Town Passes Resolution Opposing Tar Sands Pipeline

By EcoWatch / July 1, 2013

Gulf Coast Children Continue to Experience Health Challenges

By EcoWatch / January 23, 2012

Protestors Paralyze Belo Monte Dam Construction

By EcoWatch / January 20, 2012

International Rivers Major construction on the Belo Monte Dam commenced on the Xingu River during Brazil’s New Year holidays, signaling a new phase in the Brazilian government’s intentions to sidestep environmental legislation and human rights conventions to build the world’s third largest hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon. The project’s first blockades of […]

France Shows Why Water Privatization Is a Bad Idea