Provides local and watershed-level maps and summaries of climate projections WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014.  Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today unveiled the National Climate Change Viewer, a climate-visualization website tool from the Interior Department’s U.S. Geological Survey. The new tool gives citizens and resource managers the opportunity to look[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014.  As a part of the Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department yesterday announced the selection of three pioneering offshore wind demonstrations to receive up to $47 million each over the next four years to deploy innovative, grid-connected systems in federal and state waters by 2017. These[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014 – Two citizen groups have taken the initial step toward debunking chemical-industry claims that glyphosate, the world’s most widely-used herbicide, does not bioaccumulate or metabolize in humans. The pilot study, conducted by Moms Across America and Sustainable Pulse, looked at ten breast-milk samples and 35 urine[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 7, 2013.  A new report from the California Department of Public Health finds 36 percent of public schools in the state have pesticides of public health concern applied within a quarter mile of the school. Persistent and toxic pesticides like chlorpyrifos, methyl bromide, and malathion are among the[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 6 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for Congress to act on proposals to curb greenhouse gas emissions after a major new report today warned that global warming could exceed 10 degrees Fahrenheit in the United States by the end of this century. “This important report is another loud and[Read More…]

Economic impact of severe weather projected to grow dramatically in future years WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014.  Following the release of the U.S National Climate Assessment, which highlighted the Midwest region’s “agricultural lands, forests, Great Lakes, industrial activities, and cities” as especially vulnerable to climate change, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)[Read More…]

Oil Train Facility on Columbia River Tries to Skirt Clean Air Requirements PORTLAND, Oregon–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014.  A coalition of regional and national conservation organizations representing tens of thousands of Oregonians is asking the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to reject an air-permit application for a Columbia River facility that[Read More…]

Scientists Also Warn of Food Supply Threat, More Destructive Hurricanes, Up to 10 Degrees of Warming This Century SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014.  Climate change has dangerously increased flood risk in many of America’s largest coastal cities and will drive up sea levels as much as 4 feet by 2100, according[Read More…]

SALT LAKE CITY–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a draft conservation agreement today that delays and potentially undermines federal protection for two imperiled wildflowers in Utah and Colorado that were proposed for Endangered Species Act protection last August. The draft agreement does not provide strong enough[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014.  Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on the National Climate Assessment, released today: “Today’s report adds to the ever-growing body of scientific evidence and on-the-ground proof that the effects of climate change are already being felt in every region of the United States,” Wyden[Read More…]