Eight Groups Ask State Wildlife Agency to Make Key Parts of Wolf Plan Into State Law OLYMPIA, Wash.–(ENEWSPF)–June 9, 2014.  Eight conservation groups filed a petition late Friday requesting that the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife enact rules that sharply limit the use of lethal control of wolves to[Read More…]

Bears, Wolves, Foxes Among Those Killed by Gunners, Poison, Traps WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 9, 2014.  New data from the highly secretive arm of the Agriculture Department known as “Wildlife Services” shows it killed more than 2 million native animals during the past fiscal year, including wolves, coyotes, bears, mountain lions foxes, eagles[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 9, 2014.  A recent talk given by Donald Weston, PhD, a professor emeritus in UC Berkeley’s Department of Integrative Biology, to a community group in San Jose, California warned residents about the dangers that lawn care insecticides present to local aquatic life. The talk focused on the problems synthetic pyrethroids[Read More…]

New Recognitions Support Administration’s Initiative to Promote  Outdoor Recreational Opportunities, Connection to Nature WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2014.  To promote outdoor recreation and reconnect Americans to nature, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Director of the National Park Service Jonathan B. Jarvis today announced the recognition of 19 hiking and[Read More…]

“Overwhelming Scientific Evidence” That Alex Energy and Elk Run Coal Mines Failed Clean Water Act Protections Huntington, WV—(ENEWSPF)—June 6, 2014. Yesterday, in a landmark decision, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia found that conductivity pollution from mountaintop removal mines owned by Alex Energy and Elk[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2014.  On June 4, after a two year dispute between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a coalition of conservation organizations and fishing groups, an agreement was finally reached to set reasonable no-spray buffer zones to protect salmon from five harmful insecticides: diazinon, chlorpyrifos, malathion, carbaryl, and methomyl. These[Read More…]

South Bend, Indiana—(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2014.  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman today announced a $600,000 grant to the City of South Bend and a $600,000 grant to the City of Plymouth to help redevelop contaminated brownfield sites.  Hedman was joined by U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski and South[Read More…]

Decision Comes Two Days After Wolf Pups Observed in Southern Oregon FORTUNA, Calif.–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2014.  In response to a 2012 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity and allies, the California Fish and Game Commission voted yesterday to protect gray wolves under the state’s Endangered Species Act. The 3-1 vote[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2014.  Environmental advocacy groups filed an Administration Objection and a court appeal last week in order to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) refusal to quickly correct errors in pesticide registrations and immediately implement measures to protect children from exposure to dangerous pesticides that drift from fields[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. Conservation and food safety groups filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency today for failing to protect endangered species from a new, toxic pesticide called cyantraniliprole. EPA risked far-reaching harm to both aquatic and terrestrial species by approving the widespread use of this new pesticide in[Read More…]