Litigation Prepared to Challenge Illegal 20,000 Acre Public Lands Lease Santa Fe, NM—(ENEWSPF)—October 20, 2014. A broad coalition of local and national conservation groups announced plans to sue the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”), if the agency proceeds with the sale of 13 parcels (almost 20,000 acres of public lands)[Read More…]

OREGON, OHIO—(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2014 — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Administrator/Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan Hedman today announced the award of four Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling over $8.6 million to Ohio, Michigan and Indiana state agencies to protect public health by targeting harmful algal blooms in[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2014. Today, the Sierra Club, 350.org, Carbon Market Watch, Pacific Environment, and Friends of the Earth U.S. released a report detailing the catastrophic human rights, labor, and environmental violations at Reliance Power’s Sasan coal-fired power plant and mine in Singrauli, India. Even more striking is the[Read More…]

Once Common From Alaska to Mexico, Abalone Has Declined 99 Percent in Some Places ANCHORAGE, Alaska–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2014.  Conservation groups notified the National Marine Fisheries Service today of their intent to sue the agency for delaying Endangered Species Act protection for the pinto abalone, an approximately six-inch snail with an[Read More…]

Center for Food Safety demands agency immediately curb use of controversial insecticide Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 17, 2014.  Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released findings concluding that neonicotinoid insecticides “provide negligible overall benefits to soybean production in most situations” and that most of the existing use on soybean seeds is merely “prophylactic.” Scientists[Read More…]

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–October 17, 2014.  Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new guidance to help school districts protect indoor air quality while increasing energy efficiency during school renovations. “This guidance provides common-sense solutions for improving energy efficiency and indoor air quality in schools across the country,” said Janet McCabe,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 17, 2014.  The Vermont Attorney General’s Office, as part of a continuous effort to label genetically modified organisms (GMO) and increase transparency for consumers, released a draft of the rules written to govern the state’s law to require the labeling of food produced with genetic engineering. The nine[Read More…]

SAN FRANCISCO—(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2014. A group of women, including Captain Planet and the Center for Biological Diversity’s Frostpaw the Polar Bear, will rally outside the “Ultimate Women’s Power Luncheon” on Oct. 20 to urge former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline and other fossil fuel[Read More…]

PORTLAND, Oregon—(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2014. A new study from the Environmental Protection Agency has found that the neonicotinoid seed coatings linked to massive bee die-offs — including the largest bumblebee die-off in history, where 25,000 bees died in a single incident in a Portland suburb — provide little to no benefits for soybean[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2014. Under a settlement agreement with the United States,  ATP Infrastructure Partners LP (ATP-IP) will pay a $1 million civil penalty and perform corrective measures to resolve claims by the U.S. under the Clean Water Act and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) of unauthorized discharges[Read More…]