Administration Goal to Reduce Methane Emissions by up to 45% by 2025 CARLSBAD, N.M. –-(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2015.  On the heels of the Obama Administration’s recently announced goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 – 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025, U.S. Secretary of[Read More…]

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)—January 23, 2015. Today, Secretary Moniz announced the creation of the Jobs Strategy Council (JSC), an initiative focused on accelerating job growth in American-made clean energy sources while implementing the President’s Climate Action Plan, during a roundtable with the business leaders of Energy Intensive, Trade Exposed industries and their[Read More…]

Six national environmental organizations today called on the EPA and FAA to move quickly to set emission standards to curb greenhouse gas pollution from the nation’s aircraft fleet. Aircraft are one of the fastest-growing carbon emissions sources, on track to triple by 2050 without regulations. Dramatic aviation emission reductions are[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2015.  Pesticide-centered Program Approved Despite 30,000 Opposition Letters. Eleven groups, including Beyond Pesticides and the City of Berkeley, sued the California Department of Food and Agriculture yesterday over the agency’s approval of a statewide “pest management” plan that allows pesticide spraying on schools, organic farms and residential[Read More…]

Davos-Klosters, Switzerland–(ENEWSPF)–23 January 2015 – This year is the year for global action. If politicians, the private sector and international organizations fail to act on climate change and sustainable development in 2015, the opportunity to create low-carbon growth and reduce poverty will be lost. This was the message from world[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015.  Senate Republicans on Thursday refused to acknowledge the scientific consensus that global warming is a real, man-made threat to the planet and that time is running out to stop burning the fossil fuels scientists blame for worldwide climate change. “The American people need to know whether[Read More…]

Public Comment Sought on Environmental Assessment for 300,000-Acre Wind Energy Areas WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015.  As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015.l  The Iowa Farmers Union filed a petition yesterday with the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS) for rulemaking to improve pesticide drift incident responses, penalties, and support to farmers harmed by pesticide drift. “Pesticide drift from nearby fields is a very real problem for farmers in Iowa,”[Read More…]

Conservationists settle lawsuit after the government agrees to conduct a comprehensive environmental analysis of the drilling project Gunnison County, CO—(ENEWSPF)—January 20, 2015. Conservationists have settled a lawsuit that challenged the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a new natural gas drilling project in Colorado’s Gunnison National Forest without conducting the legally[Read More…]

Unique Bird Once in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona Now Reduced to 7 Percent of Historic Range WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2015.  The Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to protect the Gunnison sage grouse as “threatened”[Read More…]