Coalition sues over illegal permitting of major crude-by-rail project in Central Valley An oil train moves through California’s Central Valley. The newly opened Bakersfield Crude Terminal has the capacity to receive two 100-car unit trains a day. Elizabeth Forsyth / Earthjustice Kern County, CA —(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015. Community and environmental[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015.  State legislators in Hawaii will soon be introducing a proposal to establish pesticide-free zones around schools and hospitals throughout the state. Not yet filed or finalized, the proposed bill would prohibit farmers from using large amounts of pesticides within a specified distance of schools and hospitals,[Read More…]

More than 10,000 comments against the pipeline submitted to BLM before tomorrow’s deadline Chaco and New Oil and Gas Wells– WildEarthGuardians Farmington, NM–(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015.  In what is one of the largest outpourings of its kind in New Mexico’s history, more than 10,000 citizens from around the U.S. submitted comments[Read More…]

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake photo © D. Bruce Means. ATLANTA—(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015.  This weekend Whigham, Ga., hosts its annual “rattlesnake roundup” — a lethal and cruel contest in which hunters compete for prizes by capturing rare eastern diamondback rattlesnakes to be displayed and then sold for their meat and skins. As[Read More…]

Sierra Club applauds Wolf Administration’s Order to Protect State Parks and Forests from New Oil and Gas Leases PENNSYLVANIA–(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015.  Today, Governor Wolf signed an executive order placing a moratorium on new leasing for oil and gas drilling in our state parks and forests.   This action reinstates a 2010[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015.  Roosevelt University has received gold-level recognition from the Illinois Governor’s Higher Education Campus Sustainability Compact and the Illinois Green Governments Coordinating Council for its many green initiatives. Strategic planning that has engaged Roosevelt’s administration, faculty and students and implementation of a variety of innovative programs and practices[Read More…]

Report Shows Land Use Sector Can Close Half of Emissions Gap WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015 – A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) finds that reducing emissions from the land sector must be part of a global climate solution in order to close the “emissions gap,” the difference[Read More…]

Regionally-tailored plan continues balanced approach to leasing, development; Draft proposal would protect sensitive resources, makes available nearly 80% of estimated undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources on U.S. Outer Continental Shelf WASHINGTON, DC –-(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015.  As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015.  In evaluating a farmworker poisoning incident in Washington State last year, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report identifies “at least three potential occupational hazards in agriculture: off-target pesticide drift, toxicity of some recently marketed pesticides, and a gap in worker notification requirements.” The report[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—January 27, 2015. 28 local, state and national public interest groups from the Climate Reality Check network submitted a letter to Assistant Administrator Janet McCabe for the Office of Air and Radiation in the Environmental Protection Agency. The letter urges her to require that states make significant greenhouse gas[Read More…]