CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)–April 26, 2014 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of two Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling $1 million to fund green infrastructure projects in Chicago. The projects will improve water quality in Lake Michigan. EPA Region 5 Administrator / Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan[Read More…]
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Mayor Emanuel Announces Winners of CleanWeb Challenge Driving Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Innovation
Winners Participated in Year-Long Hackathon Series Using City Data to Create Sustainable Solutions for Pressing Urban Issues CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. After celebrating Earth Day earlier this week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced today the winners of the Chicago CleanWeb Challenge, a year-long competition launched in[Read More…]
Senators Kirk, Durbin: BP Must Be a Better Neighbor to Lake Michigan, Chicago
Senators Met Today With BP America President John Minge to Discuss Last Month’s Oil Spill Into Lake Michigan at the Company’s Whiting, Ind., Refinery CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today met with BP America Chairman and President John Minge to voice serious concerns[Read More…]
Arizona Game and Fish Endorses Plan to Ramp Up Killing of Endangered Wolves
PHOENIX–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. The Arizona Game and Fish Commission unanimously endorsed a plan this week that will make it vastly easier to kill endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico and arbitrarily caps the number of wolves in both states at 300, allowing for a number as low[Read More…]
NOAA Coast Survey Vessel Finds 19th Century Shipwreck off Golden Gate Bridge — Again
Predecessor agency first located ship in 1890, two years after it sank SS City of Chester. (Credit: San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park K01.2.571PL) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. NOAA announced it has found the underwater wreck of the passenger steamer City of Chester, which sank in 1888 in a collision[Read More…]
Multiple Accounts of Honey Bee Death and Damage Continue
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. Reports of honey bee deaths have been emerging around the nation: from bee deaths in California’s almond groves and ‘mysterious’ road-side bee deaths in Oregon, to astronomical overwintering losses in Ohio. The reports are intensifying the ecological crises of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) —a phenomenon typified[Read More…]
EPA Report: Data Show Automakers on Track in Meeting Greenhouse Gas Standards
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a Manufacturers Performance Report that assesses the automobile industry’s progress toward meeting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks in the 2012 model year – the first year of this fourteen year program. The report reveals[Read More…]
Interior Secretary Jewell Underscores President’s Commitment to Build Strong, Resilient Tribal Communities at Pacific Northwest Tribal Summit
Discusses federal support for economic development, tribal sovereignty, addressing climate-change impacts KITSAP PENINSULA, Wash.–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today met with representatives of Pacific Northwest tribes to discuss federal efforts to address the economic, social and climate change challenges facing American Indian and Alaska Native[Read More…]
Endangered Killer Whales May Get Protected Habitat Along West Coast
Fisheries Service to Evaluate New Habitat Designation Off Coasts of Washington, Oregon, California SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014. In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that it will consider expanding protected critical habitat for the endangered “Southern Resident” population of[Read More…]
Moves to Expedite Fracked Gas Exports Spark Public Outcry: Americans Urge Senators to Ban LNG Exports
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014. Some 182,000 petitions have been delivered to the U.S. Senate to urge it to reject plans to dramatically expedite exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Escalating tensions between Ukraine and Russia have prompted some members of Congress to push to export LNG overseas, but doing so[Read More…]
