Hundreds of Oil Wastewater Wells Near Active Faults and Major Cities Already Raising Quake Risk for Millions of Californians SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014.  Oil companies are increasing California’s earthquake risk by injecting billions of gallons of oil and gas wastewater a year into hundreds of disposal wells near active faults[Read More…]

New Regulations Take Effect Immediately and Will Require Facilities to Submit Monthly Progress Reports CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced today the issuance of a comprehensive set of regulations that will crack down on the harmful emission of petroleum coke, or[Read More…]

Rejects unreasonable demand to return to widespread buffalo slaughter Helena, MT–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014. The Montana Supreme Court affirmed the decision of a lower court yesterday, allowing wild bison room to roam outside the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park. The ruling upholds a February 2012 decision by state agencies to[Read More…]

Litigation continues to better identify the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing Cheyenne, WY–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014.  Yesterday, the Wyoming Supreme Court issued its decision in a case where Powder River Basin Resource Council and other groups challenged the Wyoming Oil and Gas Commission’s withholding of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) chemical information from[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014.  Today, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune testified before the U.S. Senate Committee of Foreign Affairs regarding the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline national interest determination. Brune’s written testimony is here. Below are his verbal remarks: Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Corker, members of the committee, it[Read More…]

Court gives lawsuit green light to proceed SEATTLE, WA–(ENEWSPF)–March 12, 2014.  This morning the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington denied a motion to dismiss in its entirety, allowing a Clean Water Act lawsuit against BNSF Railway Company to proceed for coal dust contamination of U.S. waterways.[Read More…]

  The NASA P-3 leaving the hangar at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on the morning of March 10 in preparation for the flight to Thule Air Base, Greenland. Image Credit: NASA/Patrick Black Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014.  Researchers aboard NASA’s P-3 research aircraft left the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in[Read More…]

Integrated pest management practices are shown to reduce pesticide use WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014.  Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced three grants to facilitate integrated pest management practices in schools. This funding will help reduce student’s exposure to pests and pesticides in the nation’s schools, while saving money, energy[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014. Part deux of a 2012 study finding that sperm counts in French men had decreased 30% over the past 16 years came to a second startling conclusion in a 2014 analysis: the cause for those dramatic decreases may be pesticides. 2012 Sperm-Count Study Published in the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 12, 2014.  As many as 700 birds have been found dead in a wildlife reserve in New South Wales, Australia. Preliminary tests reveal that the pesticide, fenthion, was the cause of death for many little correlas, galahs and sulphur-crested cockatoos found over the past two weeks. Certain uses[Read More…]