Virtual View Kiosks Enable Visitors to Explore America’s Natural, Historical and Cultural Treasures in Advance of National Park Service’s Centennial Celebration in 2016 NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2015 – In advance of next year’s National Park Service Centennial, the Park Service and the National Park Foundation today kicked off a nationwide campaign[Read More…]
Environmental
NASA: California Tuolumne Snowpack 40 Percent of Worst Year
Deficit in the total volume of water contained within the Tuolumne River Basin snowpack from this time in 2014 to now. The deeper the red color, the greater the volume of water lost. Image Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech Spatial distribution of the total volume of water in the snowpack across the Tuolumne River[Read More…]
Fracking’s Most Wanted: Report Identifies Top 10 Oil & Gas Companies for Spills & Legal Violations
Finds Only Three Out of 36 States Publicly Track Oil & Gas Companies’ Missteps; Public Records for Federal Lands Not Available After 2011 WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2015 – Only three out the 36 states with active oil and gas operations make information about companies’ spills and legal violations easily available to[Read More…]
The Sierra Club Launches Major New Platform for Environmental Activism
AddUp.org to bring together millions of advocates for online social change San Francisco –(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2015. The Sierra Club, the nation’s largest grassroots environmental group, announced the launch of AddUp, a one-stop shop for effective environmental activism — at home or on-the-go, online or in communities across the country. Fueled[Read More…]
Court Rules Navy Training in Pacific Violates Laws Meant to Protect Whales, Sea Turtles
Victory: Federal judge says Feds wrongly approved plan allowing whales, dolphins, other wildlife to be harmed nearly 10 million times A U.S. Navy vessel encounters a research ship and pod of orcas. The shrill, repetitive whistle produced by sonar harms marine mammals. Photo provided by Center for Whale Research Honolulu,[Read More…]
Portland Takes Big Step Forward to Protect Pollinators, Birds, Salmon and Children From Dangerous Pesticides
Monarch butterfly photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Tiago J. G. Fernandes. PORTLAND, Ore.— (ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2015. The Portland City Council took a big step forward yesterday in protecting Portland’s wildlife and park users by passing an ordinance to ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, and plants treated with neonicotinoid pesticides, on lands[Read More…]
Health, Firefighter, Consumer and Science Groups Seek Ban on Household Products With Toxic Chemical Flame Retardants
97% of U.S. residents at risk from toxic organohalogen flame retardants in their bodies Children are especially at-risk because they come into greater contact with household dust than adults. The most effective solution is to ban products containing this entire class of chemicals. Cacaye / Flickr Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 31,[Read More…]
White House Fact Sheet: U.S. Reports its 2025 Emissions Target to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
State Department Submits President Obama’s Ambitious 2025 Target to Cut U.S. Climate Pollution by 26-28 Percent from 2005 Levels Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 31, 2015. To view the INDC submission, click HERE. Building on the strong progress made under President Obama to curb the emissions that are driving climate change and lead on[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Announces $250,000 Investment In Chicago Clean Energy Sector To Spur Innovation And Development
WASHINGTON, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–March 30, 2015. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (DOC) Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded a $250,000 grant to the Clean Energy Trust (CET) in Chicago, Illinois to help spur entrepreneurship and boost economic development. In 2014, Durbin wrote a[Read More…]
Deputy UN Chief Calls for ‘Hydro-diplomacy’ as World Faces Growing Water Shortages
Photo: UNICEF/Wathiq Khuzaie GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–30 March 2015 – The international community must gear up for a new era of “hydro-diplomacy” as the threat of water scarcity risks plunging the world into a period of geopolitical tension and stunted development, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson told delegates gathered at the General[Read More…]
