Conservation Groups Forced to take legal action Helena, MT–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015. Today, Montana conservation groups were forced to take legal action to protect water and air quality from a massive expansion at the Bull Mountains coal mine near Roundup. Earlier this year the federal government approved a 100-million-ton expansion at[Read More…]

Northwest New Mexico Oil Drilling Will Continue Despite Risks to Communities, Cultural Resources and the Environment Santa Fe, NM–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015.  Hopes for a respite from a fracking boom plaguing Navajo and public lands in New Mexico’s Greater Chaco area were thwarted Friday when a federal judge failed to grant[Read More…]

Effort Uses Plant & Pollinator Science Collaboration at all Levels to Make Land More Resilient to Drought, Fires, Invasive Species BOISE, IDAHO –-(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015.  As part of a comprehensive, science-based strategy to address the threat of wildfires that are damaging landscapes across the West, the Department of the Interior[Read More…]

Petition Proposes Faith-Nurse Alliance for Healthcare Justice Picture credit: Huffington Post Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015. Leaders of unions representing leading nurses and other healthcare workers in 18 countries from every major continent are requesting a meeting with Pope Francis during his upcoming visit to the U.S. to discuss ways[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015.  A study published in Scientific Reports has found that glyphosate, the controversial and toxic active ingredient in Roundup, reduces activity and reproduction in two species of earthworms and increases soil nutrient concentrations to dangerous levels. Earthworms are excellent indicators of soil health, and provide vitally important ecosystem[Read More…]

Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Brian Gratwicke. WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015.  The National Marine Fisheries Service, a U.S. federal agency, announced on Friday that Mexico’s fisheries are killing too many endangered loggerhead turtles. As a result the United States will levy an embargo on Mexican seafood imports if Mexico fails to tighten its[Read More…]

Cable Crossing fire, Roseburg, Oregon. Source: www.nwcg.org WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–August 13, 2015.  In light of the severity of current fire activity, the National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group (NMAC) has raised the National Fire Preparedness Level (PL) to 5 – the highest readiness level for wildland fire operations. With more than 60 large,[Read More…]

Funding from Land and Water Conservation Fund will go directly to local communities for state-identified recreation and conservation projects An FY 2015 grant will allow the State of Michigan to acquire an 18-acre property that fills a critical role in the life cycle of the Karner blue butterfly, as it[Read More…]

Overconsumption Pushing Earth Into Overshoot Earlier Each Year TUCSON, Ariz.—(ENEWSPF)–August 13, 2015.  Today is Earth Overshoot Day, the day humanity exhausts the resources the planet can replenish in a year. This year overshoot comes four and a half months too soon and a week earlier than last year. The Center[Read More…]

Court cites EPA’s own findings on health dangers of chlorpyrifos to push agency to act A plane sprays pesticide over a farm. Denton Rumsey/Shutterstock Seattle, WA —(ENEWSPF)–August 10, 2015.  Calling EPA’s delay in regulating the dangerous pesticide chlorpyrifos “egregious,” the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today ordered EPA to respond[Read More…]