Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition stands with lawmakers to urge passage of new legislation that also enables state to meet U.S. carbon pollution standards SPRINGFIELD –-(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2015.  Members of the recently-formed Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition stood with state lawmakers who introduced a bipartisan bill in Springfield today that would create 32,000[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2015—The Obama administration’s plan to cut dangerous carbon pollution from power plants is “an opportunity to both reduce air pollution and to build a more reliable, modern energy system,” an expert for the Natural Resources Defense Council says. The administration’s Clean Power Plan will pose no risks to[Read More…]

Moratorium on ‘Bomb’ Trains Needed Till Safety Can Be Ensured PORTLAND, Ore.—(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2015.  As officials probe the two latest explosive oil train derailments in Ontario and West Virginia, the Center for Biological Diversity released a report today offering striking new details on the broad range of unchecked risks to[Read More…]

Renewable energy: a thermo-solar power plant. Photo: World Bank/Dana Smillie INDIA–(ENEWSPF)–17 February 2015 – Welcoming India’s efforts to confront climate change, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, Michael Bloomberg, said today that the country was incredibly well placed to capitalise on the benefits of renewable[Read More…]

NOAA Coral Reef Watch’s newly-released four-month bleaching outlook indicates the greatest threat for coral bleaching through May 2015 is in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans in areas such American Samoa, Samoa, Western Australia, and Indonesia. (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2015.  NOAA scientists are warning that warm ocean temperatures in the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2015.  The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in federal court in California February 12 against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for failing to ensure that three widely used pesticides —atrazine, 2,4-D and alachlor— do not jeopardize the survival of two Bay Area endangered[Read More…]

Proposal Will Protect Calving, Foraging Areas of Last Remaining 450 Whales WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2015.   In response to the efforts of conservation and wildlife protection groups, the National Marine Fisheries Service today proposed to protect 39,655 square miles as critical habitat for North Atlantic right whales. Only about 450 of[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 13, 2015.  “Climate change means increased risks to our health, our economy, and our environment,” said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. “But with the President’s Climate Action Plan, the agency is taking action to advance science-based technology, such as the addition of the Climate Adjustment Tool, to help state[Read More…]

Analysis confirms major risks from oil drilling in the remote and fragile Arctic Ocean Walruses sighted in the Chukchi Sea during a tagging survey in June 2010.  Sarah Sonsthagen / U.S. Geological Survey Anchorage, AK —(ENEWSPF)–February 13, 2015. Yesterday the Department of the Interior released its final supplemental environmental impact[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 13, 2015.  With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) nod to the pesticide industry on expanded uses of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, environmental groups are charging that the agency violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Repeating a pattern of putting the environment in harm’s way through violations of federal endangered[Read More…]