UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon greets the crowd at the 2015 Global Citizen Earth Day Concert in Washington, D.C. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–19 April 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has declared 2015 a year for global action on climate, gender and development issues, warning revellers attending the 2015[Read More…]

Effort to examine royalty rates, bonding requirements, penalties and minimum bids to ensure fair return and protection for taxpayers WASHINGTON, DC –-(ENEWSPF)–April 17, 2015.  Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will open a public dialogue on potential changes to federal onshore[Read More…]

  Spring ice thickness EU–(ENEWSPF)–17 April 2015.  ESA’s ice mission has become the first satellite to provide information on Arctic sea-ice thickness in near-real time to aid maritime activities in the polar region. Marking five years in orbit just last week, CryoSat is the first mission to deliver complete maps[Read More…]

Victory: EPA safeguard brings relief, but communities concerned about House efforts to stop these overdue protections The devastating coal ash spill at Kingston, TN, in December 2008. One billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled from the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant, covering 300 acres. Photo by United Mountain[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–April 17, 2015.  Five years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Gulf of Mexico is still reeling from the nation’s biggest oil spill yet the Obama administration is pursuing dangerous new offshore oil drilling projects in the Gulf and in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, putting more wildlife at risk[Read More…]

Second Case Filed in Two Weeks to Safeguard Organic Integrity Portland, Oregon—(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2015. The Center for Food Safety (CFS), Center for Environmental Health, and Beyond Pesticides filed a new federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Organic Program’s (NOP) failure to follow the law in making[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2015.  At an event on Capitol Hill today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), joined offshore drilling experts, scientists and affected locals to highlight the lingering effects of the Gulf oil spill and the looming risks posed by a lack of new safety regulations, plans for new offshore[Read More…]

Dangerously low sardine populations, starving sea lions, brown pelicans now have a chance Thousands of starving sea lions have washed up on California shores due to sardine overfishing. NOAA Fisheries / West Coast San Francisco, CA —(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2015.  Late Wednesday afternoon, the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to close[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2015.  According to a new study, regulatory limits for insecticides are exceeded in over half of contaminated water samples collected from around the world. The study was based on a review of more than 800 studies conducted in 73 countries over the past five decades and is[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—April 16, 2015. Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica, sent a letter to Professor Laurence Tribe requesting that he disclose the full terms of any agreement he has with Peabody Energy. The nation’s largest coal company recently hired Tribe — a Harvard University constitutional law professor who[Read More…]