Repeat of last year’s extremely cold, snowy winter east of Rockies unlikely (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2014. Below average temperatures are favored in parts of the south-central and southeastern United States, while above-average temperatures are most likely in the western U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and New England, according to the[Read More…]
Environmental
Groups Petition FDA to Ban Toxic Chemicals Used in Pizza Boxes and Other Food Packaging
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2014 – The Natural Resources Defense Council and several groups today called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban several toxic chemicals allowed in food packaging, citing their potential to harm fetal development, male reproductive systems, pre-and-post natal brain development and to cause cancer. The groups[Read More…]
In First Step of Legal Battle, Groups Challenge Cove Point LNG Export Project’s Federal Approval
Environmental and community advocates file legal papers in controversial project Opponents of the Dominion Resources project rally in Baltimore, MD. Emma Hohenstein / Chesapeake Climate Action Network Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2014. Environmental and community groups took the first step late yesterday in a likely legal battle against a controversial[Read More…]
EPA Approves Enlist Duo®, Opens Gate to New Wave of GE Woes
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2014. Despite a massive outpouring of public opposition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced yesterday that it has registered Enlist Duo®, officially putting the rubber stamp of approval on the sale and use of a new wave of genetically-engineered (GE) 2,4-D tolerant crops. Developed by Dow[Read More…]
EPA Approves New 2,4-D Herbicide Blend, Paving Way for Controversial GE Crops
Center for Food Safety says it will pursue all available legal options to stop commercialization Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–October 15, 2014. Center for Food Safety (CFS) today condemned the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to approve Dow Chemical’s Enlist Duo herbicide, a new blend of 2,4-D and glyphosate intended for use on[Read More…]
Maui Communities Celebrate Return of Flow to Maui Streams after More Than a Century
Victory: Millions of gallons of water from industrial diversions return and restore flows to culturally significant waters The newly restored flows to `Īao Stream (traditionally known as Wailuku River) in October 2014.Kapua Sproat / Earthjustice Maui, HI —(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2014. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Earthjustice, on behalf of[Read More…]
Federal Watchdog Faults Government for Failure to Address Ocean Acidification
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2014. A report released today by the Government Accountability Office criticized the federal government for its failure to take coordinated action on ocean acidification. The GAO found that federal agencies have not implemented key requirements of a 2009 law passed to combat the carbon threat to oceans, the[Read More…]
Study Ties Pollinator Declines to Increased Global Malnutrition
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2014. Though pollinators only account for about 10% of the production of food crops worldwide, pollinator decline could play a disproportionate role in affecting human health in regions that are already facing food scarcity, according to a new study. Global malnutrition overlaps with pollinator-dependent micronutrient production, published[Read More…]
Conservation Groups Sue Federal Agency to Protect Wolverine
Climate change has led to loss of spring snowpack, endangering feisty predator After more than a century of trapping and habitat loss, wolverines in the lower 48 have been reduced to small, fragmented populations in Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming and northeast Oregon. AY Images / iStockphoto Missoula, MT—(ENEWSPF)—October 13, 2014.[Read More…]
Friends of the Earth Petitions NRC to Include Alarming New Seismic Data in Considering Diablo Canyon License Renewal
Request follows dramatic findings that nuclear reactors are surrounded by stronger and inter-connected earthquake faults WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—October 13, 2014. Friends of the Earth has filed a petition to intervene in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission proceeding that would allow Pacific Gas & Electric’s controversial Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors to run[Read More…]
