(Graphic Supplied) AccuWeather.com-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather.com reports March may not come in like a lion everywhere across the nation, but winter will roar during the first several days of the month and impact more than 100 million people. Early indications are that a long-duration snow event will expand from the northern Rockies and[Read More…]
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Expecting a Huge Snow Storm This Weekend? Relax, Says NWS
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- For all of you who were expecting a major, major snow storm this weekend, relax, a bit. According to Gino Izzi of the National Weather Service out of Romeoville, IL, "There’ll probably be some snow, there’s a small chance that there could be a decent amount sat[Read More…]
Organic Farmer Faces Jail Time for Refusing to Spray Pesticide
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 26, 2014. The French agriculture ministry is prosecuting Emmanuel Giboulot, an organic winemaker, for failing to apply insecticide to his vines. The ministry wants insecticide to be sprayed to control the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus, believed to be responsible for the spread of the grapevine disease, but Mr. Giboulot[Read More…]
Remarks by Secretary of State Kerry at the Economist World Ocean Summit
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 25, 2014. SECRETARY KERRY: John, thank you very much. I’m – first of all, I’ve been listening to you and agree with everything you’ve said, and very sorry that I can’t be with you in San Francisco this morning personally, but obviously I’m happy to be able to[Read More…]
EPA Announces 11 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants Totaling Over $5 Million to Combat Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)–February 25, 2014. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of 11 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling more than $5 million for projects to combat invasive species in the Great Lakes basin. “These Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants will be used to target aquatic and terrestrial invasive[Read More…]
Kaua‘i Community Moves to Defend Pesticide Disclosure Law
Kauaʻi law under attack by multi-billion dollar chemical companies Honolulu, HI–(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2014. Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety are representing a coalition of Kauaʻi residents and public interest groups in a legal intervention filed today to defend the County of Kauaʻi’s 2013 pesticide law from a challenge by chemical[Read More…]
Health Risks Found from Exposure to Agent Orange Residues on Military Aircraft
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 25, 2014. During the Vietnam War, over 10 million pounds of the toxic herbicide Agent Orange were applied from military aircraft to defoliate forests and destroy civilian crops. Outfitted with spraying equipment, UC-123 transport planes played a major role in the American military’s campaign to eliminate forest cover[Read More…]
Polar Vortex to Once Again Grip Midwest, Northeast
AccuWeather.com-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather.com report last week’s thaw was a mere tease for the Midwest and Northeast with the polar vortex set to make an encore performance this week. The stretch of mild weather across the Northeast came to an end with the weekend after temperatures rose into the 60s in Washington, D.C.,[Read More…]
NRDC Petitions EPA to Save the Monarch Butterfly
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2014–Skyrocketing use of the weed-killer glyphosate, first marketed as “Roundup,” is devastating monarch butterfly populations, and new safeguards should be put in place immediately to save the iconic species from further decline, the Natural Resources Defense Council said today. In a petition filed with the Environmental Protection Agency,[Read More…]
Supreme Court Hears Argument on Carbon Pollution Safeguards
Since 2011, polluters have been required to use available controls Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2014. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument about whether carbon pollution limits will continue, under a Clean Air Act safeguard requiring major stationary source polluters to use available control technology. In 2007, the Supreme Court[Read More…]
