Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2014. Vermont Law School announced Friday that its campus is going neonicotinoid pesticide-free, making it the first higher-education campus in the country to earn official recognition from the BEE Protective Campaign, led by Beyond Pesticides and Center for Food Safety. The university joins an expanding list of communities[Read More…]
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City Of Chicago Cracks Down On Illegal Pet/Met Coke Operation
First Cease and Desist Order Issued Under New Regulations to Protect Air Quality for Residents CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2014. The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) on Wednesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Calumet Transload, LLC for storing and transporting met coke (a material similar to petroleum coke or pet coke)[Read More…]
New Wave of Herbicide-Tolerant Crops Awaiting Likely U.S. Approval
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2014. Despite the continued documentation of weed resistance all over the United States, as well as the world, another line of herbicide-tolerant crops developed by Monsanto is currently in the pipeline awaiting likely approval by U.S. regulators. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel, Alderman Silverstein, Chicago Park District Celebrate the Opening of New Nature Play Area at Indian Boundary Park
Former underutilized zoo now community hub for environmental education CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Park District General Superintendent Michael P. Kelly, Alderman Debra Silverstein and members of the West Ridge community today cut the ribbon at the new Nature Play Center at Indian Boundary Park. “We’ve transformed this[Read More…]
NOAA’s Updated Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook Calls for an Increased Chance of a Below-normal Season
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2014. Forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center raised the likelihood for a below-normal season in today’s update to the Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook. The update predicts a 70 percent chance of a below-normal season, a 25 percent chance of a near-normal season and only a five percent[Read More…]
Legacy of DDT Still Poisoning Birds and People in Michigan
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2014. Residents of St. Louis, Michigan aren’t used to seeing large excavators and dump trucks haul piles of dirt from their front yards or entire blocks of big, neighborhood trees felled. What they are used to seeing are dead birds —sometimes even spontaneous, mid-flight deaths of the[Read More…]
Federal Report Highlights Five Years of Progress Providing Communities with Affordable Housing, Efficient Transportation and Economic Growth
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—August 7, 2014. In celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released “Five Years of Learning from Communities and Coordinating Federal Investments,” a report demonstrating how[Read More…]
Interns Build on Green Initiatives at Roosevelt University
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 5, 2014. A Roosevelt University student and a recent graduate are making the institution a more sustainable place to be for years to come with help from a Chicago company. Sustainability Studies major Mary Beth Radeck and May 2014 Accounting graduate Kevin Markowski are cultivating rooftop gardens in the[Read More…]
Outrage in Colorado over Fracking Betrayal of Top Democrats
Activists in Erie, Colorado protest fracking in their community. (Photo: Erie Rising) Politicians announce drilling regulatory panel will welcome input by industry and business groups, headed by XTO Energy president Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- In what is being slammed as a hijacking of the democratic process—and a cave to pressure by the[Read More…]
Watch: ‘Massive Environmental Disaster’ in Canada as Toxic Tailing Pond Floods Waterways
(Image: Screenshot from Cariboo Regional District video) Water ban put in place as a tailing pond gives way and tens of millions of gallons of waste course through area rivers and lakes British Columbia-(ENEWSPF)- A middle-of-the-night breach of the tailings pond for an open-pit copper and gold mine in British[Read More…]
