Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 23, 2015.  Tests on produce collected by California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR) for 2014 show high levels of illegal toxic pesticide residues. The CDPR report found 1 percent of produce containing an excess amount of pesticide residues, and an additional 5.5 percent of produce tested contained illegal residues[Read More…]

Challenges expected in at least three areas, each of which was refuted today Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2015. The rash of lawsuits by polluters and their allies triggered by publishing the Clean Power Plan in the Federal Register are highly unlikely to derail the landmark climate plan, key legal experts[Read More…]

A firefighter watches a fire burn along Morgan Valley Road near Lower Lake, California, on August 13, 2015. Source: AP/Jeff Chiu Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2015.  A new report from the Center for American Progress projects that the U.S. Forest Service will have to spend 80 percent more per year[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—October 22, 2015. An analysis released today by Friends of the Earth U.S. reveals disturbing news: U.S. and European Union trade negotiators meeting in Miami this week appear to be actively considering  adopting the agenda of  chemical and pesticide industry lobbyists. Under the terms of the Transatlantic Trade[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Drew, thank you very, very much. Good morning everybody. Welcome to the State Department. And Drew, thanks so much for not just great leadership, but for years of friendship. Drew was really the surrogate senator for the state of Massachusetts for a period of[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2015 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today asked the Department of Justice to investigate potential fraud by Exxon Mobil Corp. over conflicts in what it knew and what it told the public and shareholders about the cause of climate change. In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch,[Read More…]

First-of-its-kind maps expose millions of acres of vulnerable forests in the U.S. Southeast under threat from the rapidly-expanding wood pellet industry and rising biomass demand in Europe NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2015 – A new report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reveals the imminent threat from the[Read More…]

President Barack Obama with the CEOs of major automakers announcing new tail pipe emissions standards. One notable absence was Jonathan Browning, the then president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, July 2011. Source: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Washington D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2015.  Michael Horn, the president and CEO of Volkswagen[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2015.  Exposure to neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides results in profound negative impacts to the health of honey bee queens, according to an international team of researchers led by Geoff Williams, MD, PhD, at the University of Bern in Switzerland. While most studies to date have investigated how neonics[Read More…]

MT DEQ Permit Did Not Adequately Protect Groundwater Photo by Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation HELENA, MT —(ENEWSPF)—October 20, 2015. On Friday, the Montana Board of Environmental Review rejected a Department of Environmental Quality coal mine expansion permit that would have doubled the size of the Bull Mountains mine[Read More…]