WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2015. A long-delayed report released today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds that fracking has polluted drinking water. But a lack of cooperation from the oil and gas industry limited the study’s ability to draw wider conclusions. “The limited amount of data collected before and during hydraulic[Read More…]
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Over 200,000 People Urge Forest Service to Reject Mega-Development Near Grand Canyon
Public overwhelmingly opposes threat to national treasure The Grand Canyon is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. National Park Service Photo Flagstaff, AZ —(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2015. Over 200,000 people flooded the U.S. Forest Service with comments over the last month calling for the agency to reject a plan for[Read More…]
Pyrethroid Pesticide Use Increases Rates of ADHD in Adolescent Boys in New Study
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2015. Another study has found links between a commonly used household pesticide and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and young teens. Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center found an association between pyrethroid pesticide exposure and ADHD, particularly in terms of hyperactivity and impulsivity. These[Read More…]
NRDC: Public is Financing $73 Billion in Coal Development, Report Reveals
Governments, financial institutions worldwide still backing coal-fired power plants and coal mining worsening climate pollution WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015 –International financial institutions and governments worldwide are pouring billions of dollars into building new and existing coal-fired power plants and expanding coal mining – activities that worsen dangerous carbon pollution, according to[Read More…]
Coalition of Conservation Groups Seek to Defend Bureau of Land Management’s New Fracking Rules
Groups oppose oil and gas industry and state challenges to new, stronger rules A fracking drill in a Wyoming prairie. Tom Grundy / Shutterstock Denver, CO —(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015. A coalition of six conservation groups yesterday moved to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s new hydraulic fracturing rules against legal[Read More…]
Environmental and Alaska Native Groups Continue Fight to Protect the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea from Risky Drilling
Coalition plans to send massive offshore sale back to court after Department of the Interior re-affirmed controversial oil drilling leases in the remote and fragile Arctic Ocean Walrus hauled out on Bering Sea ice. Captain Budd Christman / NOAA Corps Anchorage, AK —(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015. Twelve groups yesterday announced their[Read More…]
Federal Judge Upholds Ban on GE Crops in Oregon County
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015. A federal judge released a ruling Friday rejecting a request by two alfalfa farms to overturn the ban on GE crops in Jackson County, Oregon. In his decision, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke found the ban on GE crops is not preempted by the state’s Right[Read More…]
Park Forest Recognized as 3-STAR Community by STAR Communities Network
Director of Communications Jason Miller takes a picture Monday night of the Village Board with the STAR network’s 3-STAR Community Award. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Village of Park Forest joined the STAR network as a Leadership Community in January 2014. As a member of the Leadership Program, the[Read More…]
New Report Highlights Strategies to Move Garden Industry in Bee-safe Direction
Growing number of companies taking steps to protect bees WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—June 1, 2015. Friends of the Earth and the Pesticide Research Institute released a new report today, Growing Bee-Friendly Garden Plants: Profiles In Innovation, which provides examples of wholesale nurseries, retailers and institutions that are responding to consumer demand to[Read More…]
Senator Kirk Urges President Obama to Halt Canadian Proposal to Store Nuclear Waste Near Great Lakes
Proposal Would Store 7 Million Cubic Feet of Nuclear Waste Less Than a Mile From Great Lakes CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015. U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) sent a letter to President Obama expressing serious concern with a proposed nuclear waste repository in Canada, which would be located less than a mile away from the Great Lakes[Read More…]
