Top-Rated Personal Care and Cosmetic Items Are Among The Goods To Earn EWG VERIFIED: For Your Health™ Mark WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2015.  Environmental Working Group, a leading environmental health nonprofit known for its popular, user-friendly tools, launched its new verification program today to give consumers peace of mind at point of[Read More…]

Thousands of dusky sharks are killed every year in U.S. longline fisheries, in violation of federal law A dusky shark swims under schooling fish. More than 4,000 dusky sharks are snagged every year on fishing gear meant to catch other species such as grouper, snapper, swordfish and other shark species.[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2015. As the remnants of Hurricane Patricia continue to generate flooding rainfall as it moved through the Gulf Coast states on October 26, NASA and NOAA satellites provided data on the storm. On Oct. 25 at 17:15 UTC (1:15 p.m. EDT) NASA’s Terra satellite saw the remnants[Read More…]

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2015.  In a case challenging a 2014 federal rule governing industrial cooling systems, 21 environmental groups from across the country are asking a U.S. Court of Appeals to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service (“the Services”) to[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, DC—(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2015.  Late Friday, Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice filed their opening brief in their ongoing legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) approval of the herbicide Enlist Duo for use on genetically engineered corn and soybeans. The challenge was originally brought in November 2014, shortly after[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2015.  Under a settlement with the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Municipality of San Juan has agreed to make substantial upgrades to its storm sewer systems.  The upgrades and related cleaning activities are aimed at eliminating or minimizing daily discharges of large[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 23, 2015.  NASA satellites and instruments have been monitoring the record-breaking Hurricane Patricia as it rapidly intensified off the southwestern coast of Mexico on October 23. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP saw frigid cloud top temperatures, NOAA’s GOES-West satellite provided imagery and animations that showed the extent of the storm,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 23, 2015. Outside the International Space Station, cameras captured dramatic views of Hurricane Patricia at 12:15 p.m. EDT on October 23, 2015 as the mammoth system moved north at about10 mph, heading for a potentially catastrophic landfall along the southwest coast of Mexico sometime during the day, according[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 23, 2015.  At 8 a.m. EDT on October 23, 2015, the National Hurricane Center said that Hurricane Patricia had grown into a monster hurricane. In fact, it is the strongest eastern north pacific hurricane on record. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite analyzed the temperatures and structure within the storm[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 23, 2015. In this action, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is establishing final emission guidelines for states to follow in developing plans to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units (EGUs). Specifically, the EPA is establishing: Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission performance rates representing[Read More…]