Groups Challenge Fed’s Decision to Allow Highly Controversial ‘Predator Derby’  SALMON, Idaho –(ENE#WSPF)—November 13, 2014. Today, a coalition of conservation organizations sued the Bureau of Land Management for granting a 5-year permit allowing predator-killing contests on public lands surrounding Salmon, Idaho over the winter holiday season. The agency unlawfully relied on faulty[Read More…]

Members are from government, industry, academia, not-for profits Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2014.  NOAA today announced the appointment of 13 members to a new federal Ocean Exploration Advisory Board that will provide guidance to NOAA and the nation on the exploration of our ocean. “This distinguished board will advise NOAA on[Read More…]

Broad Coalition Supports Petition to Protect Monarch Butterflies as Threatened under Endangered Species Act WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2014.   In the face of staggering declines of monarchs, more than 40 leading monarch scientists and ecologists and more than 200 organizations and businesses today urged Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to[Read More…]

Apartment and condo buildings recognized in Ark., D.C., Ill., Mass., N.Y., Va., Wash. with certification for leading industry in cutting energy use, increasing affordability WASHINGTON – (ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2014. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the first existing multifamily housing properties to earn the new ENERGY STAR multifamily[Read More…]

International Conservation Partnership on “Phoenix Ocean Arc” will Benefit 489,000 Square Nautical Miles of Ocean; Builds on President Obama’s Action to Expand Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA –-(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2014.  U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell joined Republic of Kiribati President Anote Tong to sign a[Read More…]

Court Says Suit Violated U.S. Constitution SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEEWSPF)–November 13, 2014 – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday rejected a Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc. and Shell Offshore Inc. lawsuit that attempted to prevent environmental groups from challenging its oil drilling plans in the Arctic.  The appeals[Read More…]

BOULDER, CO–(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2014.  Today the Boulder County Commission announced an extension of the moratorium on oil and gas development.  The three year extension will prohibit oil and gas surface activities from occurring in the county until July 1, 2018.  Citizens called for the continued moratorium amid concerns that rampant[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2014.  In an investigative report, Dark Side of the Strawberry, Center for Investigative Reporting provides a sordid story and analysis of the rise of one of California’s most prized crops, strawberries, while state regulators ignored public health and environmental risks associated with the pesticides used in their production. The report[Read More…]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—(ENEWSPF)–November 12, 2014.  Conservation and tribal groups filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. State Department’s secretive approval of a plan to allow Canadian oil giant Enbridge to nearly double the amount of tar sands oil in the Alberta Clipper pipeline. The approval this summer happened without public notice[Read More…]

Ishpeming, Michigan—(ENEWSPF)—November 13, 2014 – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Administrator/Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan Hedman today joined Ishpeming Mayor Mike Tall, state officials and local residents at Deer Lake in Ishpeming, Michigan, to mark the removal of this toxic hotspot from a binational list of “Areas of[Read More…]