Australian Mock Race. Image credit: Pavan Naik ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2013.  With a bold, asymmetrical vehicle that’s logged thousands of test miles on two continents, students on the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Solar Car Team say this could be their year for a world championship. U-M’s team—currently No. 1 in[Read More…]

West Coast marine mammals continue to be harmed by deafening underwater noise Eureka, CA–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2013. A federal court has ruled that National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) failed to protect thousands of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, and sea lions from U.S. Navy warfare training exercises along the coasts of California,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2013.  New NOAA-led research on tagged humpback whales in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary reveals a variety of previously unknown feeding techniques along the seafloor. Rather than a single bottom feeding behavior, the whales show three distinct feeding approaches: simple side-rolls, side-roll inversions, and repetitive scooping. A[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2013.  As part of the Administration’s commitment to improve the reliability and resiliency of the Nation’s electric grid, the Energy Department today announced up to $9 million in funding to facilitate rapid response to abnormal grid conditions.  As a result, utilities will be able to better detect and[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2013.  Yesterday, the Center for American Progress released a video on the tremendous risk that the slow-moving threat of sea-level rise presents to some of America’s most populous cities. CAP visited Norfolk, Virginia, a city on the front lines of the fight against rising seas, to[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2013.  The controversial legislative rider added at the behest of Monsanto to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) budget bill last spring, dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act,” will no longer be effective after Sept. 30 under a new stopgap government funding bill being drafted by Senate Democrats. Just last[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–26 September 2013 – Wider use of available best practices and technologies could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector by as much as 30 per cent, according to a new study released today by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The report, “Tackling climate[Read More…]

Six More Refuges Open to Hunting;  20 Refuges Expand Hunting and Fishing Opportunities WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–September 24, 2013.  In advance of National Hunting and Fishing Day on September 28th, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to expand fishing and[Read More…]

Protection for Rare Missouri Fish Protects Clean Water for People Too COLUMBIA, Mo.–(ENEWSPF)–September 24, 2013.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protected a rare cave- and stream-dwelling fish found only in Perry County, Mo., under the Endangered Species Act today, but decided against protecting any critical habitat for the fish[Read More…]

SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–September 24, 2013.  The Center for Biological Diversity reached a legal agreement late Monday requiring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make a decision on Endangered Species Act protection for the Sierra Nevada red fox. The Center petitioned for protection for the fox in 2011, leading to a[Read More…]