Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015 – During its first five years, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative implemented more than 2500 projects to improve water quality, clean up contaminated shoreline, protect and restore native habitat and species and prevent and control invasive species in the Great Lakes. That work, which began in 2010,[Read More…]

Blackfeet Tribe and others call for the cancellation of the leases Two Medicine River from the Hall Creek trail. Photo provided by Gene Sentz Browning, MT —(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015. Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C. ruled today on a Louisiana oilman’s bid to drill for natural gas[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—July 28, 2015.  As Congress prepares to go to conference to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2015, a coalition of environmental and fair trade organizations are protesting the inclusion of language in the House version of the[Read More…]

Block Island Facility Puts ‘Steel in the Water’ off Rhode Island Coast Rhode Island is now looking at wind turbines, like these in Germany. (Photo: CHRISTIAN CHARISIUS/POOL, EPA) NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. –(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015.  As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop clean energy sources and[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015.  Today at the White House, Secretary of State John Kerry and senior White House officials will host 13 of the largest companies from across the American economy who are standing with the Obama Administration to launch the American Business Act on Climate Pledge: Alcoa, Apple, Bank[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015. Two Michigan Representatives have introduced the Great Lakes Assurance Program Verification Act (HR 3120) in an effort to halt the pollution of the Great Lakes and other waterways by protecting them from agricultural run-off, which causes dangerous algae blooms­. While the proposed legislation aims to reduce[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—July 27, 2015.  Today the Senate voted to invoke cloture on an amendment to the multi-year transportation bill that would reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. This amendment includes language from S. 819, which “prohibits the Bank from promulgating policies that discriminate against any type of energy source, or deny[Read More…]

Source: Wikimedia Commons. Boston, MA ─(ENEWSPF)–July 23, 2015.  More than 70% of pollen and honey samples collected from foraging bees in Massachusetts contain at least one neonicotinoid, a class of pesticide that has been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), in which adult bees abandon their hives during winter, according[Read More…]

EPA’s Clean Water Rule Included Late Give-Aways to Industry Seattle, WA and San Francisco, CA —(ENEWSPF)–July 23, 2015. Yesterday, groups active in protecting our nation’s waters filed a legal challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers (COE) recent Clean Water Rule in order to[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 23, 2015. A recent study looks at the detrimental effects of neonicotinoids (neonics) on molluscan herbivores and their non-target insect predators, finding that slug exposure to neonics results in the secondary poisoning of beneficial predatory beetles. The study, authored by Maggie Douglas, PhD candidate at Penn State University,[Read More…]