Orders State Facilities to Keep Lights Off Across State CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2014.  Governor Pat Quinn today urged Illinois residents and businesses to participate in Earth Hour 2014 by turning off their lights for one hour on Saturday, March 29. He also ordered “lights out” from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. that[Read More…]

DETROIT—(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2014 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of two Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling $1.25 million to fund green infrastructure projects in Southeast Michigan to improve water quality in the Great Lakes. EPA Region 5 Administrator / Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan[Read More…]

LIVINGSTON, Mt.–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2014.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans on Wednesday to strip Endangered Species Act protections from Yellowstone’s iconic grizzly bears later this year. The agency will release a proposed rule removing federal protections for the bears by the end of this year, and following a public-comment[Read More…]

Globally Important IBA Bolivar Flats Imperiled; Oiled Birds Are Already Being Found New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2014.  U.S. Coast Guard/Greenpeace A barge loaded with marine fuel oil sits partially submerged in the Houston Ship Channel, March 22, 2014. The bulk carrier Summer Wind, reported a collision between the Summer Wind[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2014 – A report released by Center for Food Safety (CFS) this week refutes claims that a dangerous class of insecticides, neonicotinoids, bring greater benefits than costs to farmers. In the report, Heavy Costs: Weighing the Value of Neonicotinoid Insecticides in Agriculture, researchers analyzed independent, peer-reviewed, scientific[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2014. Conservation and food-safety groups filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday for failing to protect hundreds of endangered fish, butterflies and other species from a new, toxic pesticide, cyantraniliprole. The suit claims EPA violated the Endangered Species[Read More…]

Recreational Users Provide Support for Critical Conservation Projects WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014.  Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will distribute nearly $1.1 billion in excise tax revenues paid by sportsmen and sportswomen to state and territorial fish and wildlife agencies to fund[Read More…]

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014.  When it involves climate change coverage, viewers don’t always get the complete picture from U.S. network television, according to a University of Michigan study. Major networks—ABC, CBS and NBC—show the impact or actions taken in climate change stories, but rarely combine the components in the same[Read More…]

YOKOHAMA, Japan—(ENEWPSF)–25 March, 2014.  Government representatives and scientists on Tuesday opened a five-day meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to finalize a report assessing the impacts of climate change on human and natural systems, options for adaptation, and the interactions among climate changes, other stresses on societies,[Read More…]

TRENTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014—A New Jersey court ruled this morning that the Christie Administration broke the law when it excused power plants from complying with regulations limiting dangerous climate-changing pollution. “Today’s court decision—together with the substantial economic, environmental and public health benefits the program has demonstrated in neighboring states—should compel New[Read More…]