Agency expert says reactors must be shut until proven safe WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—August 25, 2014. In an explosive document kept secret for a year, a former federal inspector charges that the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California is more vulnerable to earthquakes than initially known and should be shut[Read More…]
Environmental
Vikings Add $46 Million to Stadium Budget but $0 for Bird-Safe Glass
Birds Left Out in the Cold in ‘Slap in the Face’ to 73,000 Petition Signers MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—(ENEWSPF)—August 25, 2014. At Friday’s Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA) board meeting, it was announced that the Minnesota Vikings would contribute an additional $46 million to the construction of the new Vikings Stadium. This[Read More…]
California Passes Bill That Mandates Response to Bee Crisis, but Delays Action until 2020
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2014. In a blow to the adoption of urgently needed protections for pollinators, the California State Senate voted 35-1, after an earlier Assembly vote of 75-0, to delay a requirement for action on bee-harming neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides until 2020. While advocates want mandates for regulatory action to protect bees,[Read More…]
Earthjustice Hits Forest Service with Two Lawsuits Challenging Old Growth Clear-Cutting in Tongass
Suits target Big Thorne timber sale and deficient forest management plan Juneau, AK—(ENEWSPF)—August 22, 2014. Today Earthjustice, a non-profit environmental law organization, filed two lawsuits against the U.S. Forest Service aimed at the destructive practice of old growth logging in the Tongass, America’s largest national forest located in Southeast[Read More…]
Judge Halts Plan to Eliminate Secure Grizzly Bear Habitat in Northwest Montana
Victory: Ruling preserves 36,700-acre grizzly reserve in Stillwater State Forest Grizzly bear and cubs. National Park Service Photo MISSOULA, Mont.—(ENEWSPF)—August 22, 2014. A federal judge has blocked a plan to carve new roads into a 36,700-acre block of secure grizzly bear habitat within the Stillwater State Forest in northwest Montana.[Read More…]
State Department Enables Illegal Enbridge Scheme to Expand Tar Sands
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 22, 2014. This week, the State Department released documents revealing a scheme by Canadian tar sands giant Enbridge to bypass the Presidential Permit process for expansion of its Alberta Clipper tar sands pipeline. Enbridge has applied to double the capacity of the pipeline, also known as Line 67, to put[Read More…]
Town Bans Land Application of Sewage Sludge, or Biosolids
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 22, 2014. The Town Board in Wheatfield, New York unanimously voted last month to amend its biosolids law to ban any application of sewage sludge and other similar materials from the treatment of municipal wastewater to any land in town, even for those who already have permits from[Read More…]
Record Decline of Ice Sheets: For First Time Scientists Map Elevation Changes of Greenlandic and Antarctic Glaciers
Bremerhaven–(ENEWSPF)–20th August 2014. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have for the first time extensively mapped Greenland’s and Antarctica’s ice sheets with the help of the ESA satellite CryoSat-2 and have thus been able to prove that the ice crusts of both[Read More…]
34 Groups Urge NRC to Postpone Key Votes in Order to Avoid ‘Taint’ of Magwood Conflict of Interest
Latest step follows announced August 31 departure of “fatally compromised” Magwood on heels of June and July letters urging him to step down for violations of ethics laws in seeking and landing a job promoting nuclear energy WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—August 21, 2014. Nearly three dozen groups and individuals — including[Read More…]
New Poll: Majority of Ohio Electricity Customers Do Not Support Coal Plant Bailouts
Results show Ohio electricity customers are concerned about air pollution, rising costs of electricity by wide margins COLUMBUS, Ohio—(ENEWSPF)—August 21, 2014. In results froma new poll by Public Policy Partners (PPP) released today by Public Citizen and the Sierra Club, a strong percentage of Ohio electricity customers favor clean, renewable[Read More…]
