Letter Calls on Congress to Support and Protect Healthy Communities WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2017. Ahead of next week’s vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Alaska Wilderness League, Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Green Latinos, Green For All, Safe Climate Campaign, Environmental[Read More…]
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Conservationists Condemn Premature Stripping of Protections for Yellowstone’s Grizzlies
Planned Trophy Hunts Would Fundamentally Undermine Grizzly Recovery Missoula, MT —(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2017. Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it is finalizing its flawed proposal to strip grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Endangered Species Act protections despite overwhelming public and Tribal opposition. The removal[Read More…]
Western Environmental Law Center Statement: Interior to Rewrite or Rescind BLM Methane Rule
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 21, 2017. Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke told the Senate Energy Committee the Trump administration will rewrite or rescind the Bureau of Land Management methane waste rule. The methane rule, which was carefully crafted over four years and accounted for nearly 300,000 public comments, sought to[Read More…]
NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates
NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and in the habitable zone of their star. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–June 20, 2017. NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10[Read More…]
NOAA, USGS and Partners Predict Third Largest Gulf of Mexico Summer ‘Dead Zone’ Ever
Larger-than-average low and no oxygen area may affect the region’s shrimp fisheries Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 20, 2017. Federal scientists forecast that this summer’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone – an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life – will be approximately 8,185 square miles,[Read More…]
Global Coral Bleaching Event Likely Ending
But scientists forecast high ocean temperatures may persist in some areas Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 20, 2017. After analyzing satellite and model data, NOAA’s experts say coral reefs around the world may finally catch a break from high ocean temperatures that have lingered for an unprecedented three years, the longest period since[Read More…]
Lawsuit Seeks Documents on Trump Administration’s Ties to Coal Industry
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–June 20, 2017. The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for public records of closed-door meetings between the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and industry executives over the reversal of the Obama administration’s “pause” on coal extraction on federal public lands. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke[Read More…]
Trail Workday Saturday, June 24 at Thorn Creek Woods Nature Preserve
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 20, 2017. Workdays are a fun way to give back to Thorn Creek Woods Nature Preserve! Help maintain the trails throughout the preserve or come help weed and nurture our Prairie Sampler and butterfly garden. Join us on our Trail Workday Saturday June 24. Workday is for[Read More…]
Florida Governor Rick Scott Signs Bipartisan Bill to Expand Solar Incentives
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—(ENEWSPF)–June 19, 2017. Florida Governor Rick Scott late Friday signed Senate Bill 90, a measure that will expand tax breaks for renewable energy sources like solar panels on commercial and industrial buildings. The bill extends renewable-energy tax breaks already given to residential properties and exempts a percentage of the[Read More…]
Documentary Film ‘From the Ashes’ to be Screened at the Unitarian Universalist Community Church on Friday, June 23
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 17, 2017. The Unitarian Universalist Community Church (UUCC), 70 Sycamore Drive in Park Forest, will screen the documentary movie ‘From the Ashes’ on Friday, June 23 at 7 p.m. A discussion will follow the film. ‘From the Ashes’ looks at Americans across the country as they wrestle[Read More…]
