Plan Threatens Mexican Spotted Owls, Endangered Flycatchers, Watersheds PHOENIX—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a new travel-management plan for Arizona’s Tonto National Forest that would allow off-road vehicles on more than 3,700 miles and risk destruction of watersheds and wild areas, including habitat for endangered species like[Read More…]

Logging of Parcels Liquidated from Elliott State Forest Will Harm Marbled Murrelets, Other Wildlife, Water and People EUGENE, Ore.–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014.  Conservation groups filed a notice of intent to sue Seneca Jones and Scott Timber today to prevent the imminent clearcutting of three large parcels of Elliott State Forest lands[Read More…]

Call Threats of Financial Sanctions If Lawsuit Is Filed Over Global Expansion “Bullying” NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014.  A coalition of community and environmental organizations today criticized the Cuomo administration’s threat to seek financial sanctions against tenants of a public housing project and environmental groups if they file a lawsuit challenging[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014.  In a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) challenged EPA’s position that seeds coated with pesticides, commonly neonicotinoid pesticides, are exempt from regulation under the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). EPA currently[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014.  Today, the U.S. Government is formally launching an innovative framework under President Obama’s Power Africa initiative to increase energy access for underserved populations across sub-Saharan Africa. Over an initial five year period, Beyond the Grid will leverage partnerships with 27 investors and practitioners committing to invest[Read More…]

Consumer, environmental, farming groups say synthetic biology is not natural or sustainable Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014.  In an open letter released today, 17 national and international consumer, environmental, women’s health and farming groups called on leading “natural” cleaning and personal care products manufacturer Ecover and its U.S.-based subsidiary, Method Products[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014.  Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new rules to cut carbon pollution from power plants: “Climate change is no longer a distant hypothetical — it is here now. It is already waging an assault on Oregon’s natural resources,[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014.  U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statement today following the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement of a proposed rule to establish standards for greenhouse gas emissions emitted by existing power plants. Under the proposed rule, each state’s environmental agency – including the Illinois Environmental[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014 – 2:10 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thanks, Gina.  And thanks to all the folks at EPA who worked so hard to put this plan forward.  I want to thank everybody who is on the call.  We’re going to be talking about carbon pollution and the standards[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014. If you accept modern science, you cannot deny the combined weight of over 10,000 peer-reviewed, published scientific studies which tell us climate change is happening, that human activity is a driving factor in rising temperatures, and the consequences are extremely serious. If you fight wildfires, farm,[Read More…]