Groups demand pipeline decision include new evidence WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2014.  Today, 12 environmental, landowner and consumer organizations asked the State Department to consider recent developments that highlight Keystone XL’s critical role in enabling tar sands expansion in its Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. In their letter, the groups argue that[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2014.  Scientific researchers on opposite sides of the globe are coming to the same startling conclusion concerning very different species: what was once abundant is no longer and slipping away at drastic rates. Common Declines In the Pacific Northwest, a partnership of government scientists and environmental organizations[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—July 31, 2014. The Energy Department announced today that it has conditionally authorized LNG Development Co., LLC (Oregon LNG) to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, from the Oregon LNG Terminal in Warrenton, Oregon.[Read More…]

People on the frontlines—hit hardest and first by climate disruption—will convene from across the country in the Bay Area’s ‘Toxic Oil Alley’ this August to hammer out their own solutions to the crisis Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)-  Nearly 300 leaders in a growing grassroots movement called the Our Power Campaign (www.ourpowercampaign.org) will[Read More…]

Carbon-cutting plan would create jobs, protect Oregon’s farming, fishing and forestry sectors WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2014.  Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley testified before the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today in support of the most significant action ever taken to combat carbon pollution in the United States, the Clean Power Plan. “Carbon[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2014.  Roosevelt University’s Auditorium Building has become a showcase for a city of Chicago project in which building owners are being encouraged to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent over the next five years. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel publically kicked off the city’s Retrofit Chicago initiative in July[Read More…]

Cooperative Agreement will Pair “Work Boots on the Ground” Volunteer Program with Shovel-Ready Projects on Nation’s Public Lands WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2014.  Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA), an organization representing affiliates and members of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial[Read More…]

POCATELLO, Idaho–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2014.  Faced with a legal challenge by conservationists and an imminent hearing before a federal appeals court, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game has abandoned its plan to resume a professional wolf-killing program in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness during the coming winter. In[Read More…]

Government Consultancy LMI Helps Establish Baseline for Biofuel Industry Stakeholders WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2014—Amid increasing interest in alternative transportation fuels, a new report shows how federal agencies and other large commercial customers can buy sustainably produced biofuels and avoid those linked to major deforestation, destroyed wildlife habitat and fouled waterways. The[Read More…]

Individual components of the final ocean acidification risk index for each census area showing the communities with the highest risk are in the Southeast and Southwest of the state. (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2014.  Ocean acidification is driving changes in waters vital to Alaska’s valuable commercial fisheries and subsistence[Read More…]