Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—February 22, 2018 By: Gabby Brown This afternoon, DC residents and District officials gathered to send a strong message of opposition to the Trump administration’s offshore drilling plan. In early January, Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke released a draft offshore drilling plan that proposed an unprecedented[Read More…]
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Attorney General Madigan: Implementation of Federal Energy Efficiency Standards Must Not be Delayed
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—February 20, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced today that a federal court has ruled that national energy efficiency standards must go into effect. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the Department of Energy (DOE) violated its error correction regulation under[Read More…]
Court Rules Obama-Era Energy Efficiency Standards Should Proceed
Trump administration dealt another blow in the courts Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 16, 2018 By: Timothy Ballo Yesterday, a federal court ruled that a suite of energy efficiency rules advanced during the Obama administration must move forward, despite a Trump administration attempt to scrap the rules. A coalition of states and environmental groups had sued the[Read More…]
Trump Administration Moves to Trample Taxpayers, Public Health, and Climate Via Methane Waste Rule Rollback
NEW MEXICO—(ENEWSPF)—February 13, 2018 By: Thomas Singer and Erik Schlenker-Goodrich Late yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management issued a proposed rule rolling back core public safeguards to reduce methane waste on public lands by the oil and gas industry. The proposed revision capitulates to the worst oil and gas[Read More…]
Farmers, Conservationists Challenge Trump’s EPA, Monsanto Over Crop-Damaging Pesticide
EPA Unlawfully Approved Monsanto’s XtendiMax Weed-Killer, Ignoring Warnings of Rampant Drift, Destroying Crops on Millions of Acres in Devastating 2017 Farm Season With More to Come Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 12, 2018 By: Paul Achitoff and George Kimbrell On Friday, public interest organizations representing farmers and conservationists made their legal case in[Read More…]
Beginning Birding for All at Thorn Creek Nature Center on February 17
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—February 9, 2018 By: Judy Dolan Mendelson Come to Beginning Birding for All open house, Saturday, February 17 from 9 a.m. to noon for help with all things birds! For basic bird identifications – and tricky ones, too -, choosing binoculars, bird feeding and feeder tips, local bird[Read More…]
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Critically Endangered Right Whales
Federal government is legally required to take action Boston, Mass.—(ENEWSPF)—February 8, 2018 By: Erica Fuller and Josh Block Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and co-counsel Earthjustice filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to force federal regulators to comply with their legal responsibility to[Read More…]
AccuWeather Blames the National Weather Service for Miscoded NWS Tsunami Warning
AccuWeather-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather says it has further reviewed recent National Weather Service statements related to the miscoded NWS tsunami warning of February 6, and stands by its original conclusion. “It seems clear that the NWS codes were the problem,” AccuWeather said in a statement. “When AccuWeather users clicked on the NWS[Read More…]
New NASA Space Sensors to Address Key Earth Science Questions
Washington—(ENEWSPF)—February 6, 2018 By: Steve Cole Why is the Arctic warming faster than the rest of the planet? Does mineral dust warm or cool the atmosphere? NASA has selected two new, creative research proposals to develop small, space-based instruments that will tackle these fundamental questions about our home planet and[Read More…]
ExxonMobil Publicly Acknowledges Need for Oil and Gas Methane Regulations
NEW MEXICO—(ENEWSPF)—February 5, 2018 By: Thomas Singer Today, ExxonMobil natural gas subsidiary XTO publically acknowledged the need for government regulation of oil and gas methane emissions. The announcement recognizes that voluntary measures alone are not enough to control this dangerous climate pollutant. Earlier last year, the American Petroleum Institute, whose membership includes[Read More…]
