EPA charged with ignoring past court decision WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2014— The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) today announced they have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen standards to prevent pollution from stormwater, one of the nation’s most widespread forms of water pollution. [Read More…]

Lincoln, Nebraska –(ENEWSPF)—December 19, 2014. Lincoln Electric System has finalized power purchase agreements to add 173 megawatts of wind energy and 5 megawatts of solar photovoltaic energy to its power supply resource portfolio by 2016. These projects will increase the utility’s equivalent renewable generation portfolio to 48 percent of LES’[Read More…]

Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2014 – Today the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released updated draft guidance for federal agencies on how to consider greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of climate change before approving new projects. In 2008, Center for Food Safety’s (CFS) sister organization the International Center[Read More…]

OTTAWA –(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2014.  The Enbridge Line 4 pipeline, a 796,000 barrels per day pipeline from Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin, has spilled 1,350 barrels of oil at a pumping station in Regina. Council of Canadians Regina chapter activist Jim Elliott says, “It only took 2 minutes and 26 seconds to[Read More…]

Arctic is warming at twice the rate of anywhere else on Earth Polar bears depend on sea ice for dens, food and mating. The loss of sea ice is affecting some polar bear populations and health. (Credit: Kathy Crane, NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2014.  A new NOAA-led report shows that[Read More…]

WASHINGTON – (ENEWSPF)—December 18, 2014. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released its annual enforcement and compliance results reflecting a focus on large cases driving industry compliance and that have a high impact on protecting public health and the environment. “By taking on large, high impact enforcement cases, EPA[Read More…]

Market realities show that the pipeline would significantly boost tar sands production and associated carbon emissions WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2014 – President Obama should reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline because there is new data that shows it would dramatically expand development of dirty tar sands oil, turbo-charging climate change by[Read More…]

BOSTON, MA –(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2014.  A broad coalition of sixty-seven businesses and organizations, including utilities, other private companies, business groups, electric vehicle advocacy groups, and environmental groups, urges the Governors and Governors-Elect in the eleven Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states to make policies that support electric vehicles (EVs) a top priority for[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2014.  Beyond Pesticides joined Center for Food Safety (CFS) in filing a lawsuit late Tuesday against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the agency’s failure to regulate novel nanomaterial pesticides. In 2008 more than 13 organizations filed a legal petition demanding the agency take action on this[Read More…]

Protection Petition Spurred by Concerns of 15-year-old Boy in Moore, Okla. Photo by Robert Burton, USFWS.  OKLAHOMA CITY— (ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2014.  The Center for Biological Diversity, concerned scientists and a 15-year-old lizard enthusiast filed a formal petition today seeking state endangered species protection in Oklahoma for the Texas horned lizard.[Read More…]