PORTLAND, Ore.—(ENEWSPF)–May 5, 2015.  The Center for Biological Diversity and Oregon Wild today filed a formal notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service over its failure to develop a recovery plan for Oregon coast coho salmon. Despite the fact that the fish has been protected under the[Read More…]

E-waste. Credit: ITU GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–4 May 2015 – The head of the United Nations body tasked with setting the global environmental agenda today stressed the need to limit the use of dangerous chemicals and to find a solution to the masses of electronic waste building up around the world, as a[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–May 4, 2015.  Center for Food Safety today challengeda U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) letter countering the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) October, 2014 findings that neonicotinoid insecticides “provide negligible overall benefits to soybean production in most situations” and that most of the existing use on soybean seeds is merely “prophylactic.” The[Read More…]

Earthjustice statement on the opportunity to secure healthier communities and environment and ensure just and reasonable rates for customers Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–May 4, 2015.  Today, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up a case with enormous practical implications for the rise of clean energy. The ability to turn down[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 4, 2015. Beekeepers, farmworkers, environmental and consumer groups last week sent a letter, signed by over 200,000 Americans, urging Michelle Obama to publicly commit to ensuring the White House gardens and grounds are free of dangerous neonicotinoid pesticides. The letter also asks that the First Lady use her influence to[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2015.  Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today released the following statement after the Department of Transportation issued a final rule to address the safety of shipping oil-by-rail: “After years of our urging, the Department of Transportation’s rule includes meaningful steps on rail safety, but[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—May 1, 2015. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statement today after the Department of Transportation announced new rules to strengthen requirements for railroad tank cars. The new rules are intended to help prevent and mitigate the effects of catastrophic spills of the hazardous materials –[Read More…]

Long phase-out of hazardous cars, inadequate speed limits, deficient tanker shells leave communities at risk of catastrophe A crude oil train near the Richmond, CA, railyard.  Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2015.  Today the Department of Transportation (DOT) released long-awaited new safety standards for rail tank cars[Read More…]

Continued widespread agricultural use of chlorpyrifos harms children’s health A crop duster sprays pesticides over a farmfield. Denton Rumsey / Shutterstock San Francisco, CA —(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2015.   The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received a strong message from labor, community, and environmental health groups as well as more than 160,000 people,[Read More…]

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2015.  The Center for Biological Diversity filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a tiger beetle and a flower found in wet seeps in the Grand Canyon and nowhere else on Earth. The Arizona wetsalts tiger[Read More…]