Irish National Arrested for Passing Fraudulent Documents in Connection with His Sale of Four Black Rhinoceros Horns for $50,000 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2013. Earlier today, a federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn detained an Irish national who was arrested on Saturday and charged in a complaint for false labeling in connection[Read More…]
Environmental
Six Individuals, Three Corporations Charged in Indiana-based Biofuels Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2013. The Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana announced today the return of two indictments against six individuals and three companies for offenses involving federal renewable fuel programs, allegedly creating losses to victims totaling more[Read More…]
Congressmen Blumenauer, Thompson, other Conservation Leaders in Congress Urge Adoption of Senate Language in Farm Bill Conference
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2013. Today, Congressmen Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) and Mike Thompson (CA-05), along with more than 100 other members of the House of Representatives, sent a letter to the leadership of the House urging them to adopt language from the Senate Farm Bill, S. 954, the Agriculture Reform, Food[Read More…]
EPA Releases Scientific Study Supporting Clean Water Protections
Report underscores need to protect all waters from pollution Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. A new scientific study released by the independent Science Advisory Board to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports restoring longstanding Clean Water Act protections to streams, wetlands, and other water bodies left vulnerable by Bush-era guidance.[Read More…]
Mining Company Pulls Out of Controversial Alaskan Gold and Copper Mine Project
London-based company cites high risks in hotly opposed project Juneau, AK–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. Anglo American, a London-based company that was one of two major partners in a highly controversial gold and copper mine proposed in the Bristol Bay area called the Pebble Mine, yesterday pulled out of the project citing[Read More…]
Sierra Club Announces 2013 National Awards
SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. A photographer who has documented the world’s vanishing glaciers, an organization that has helped protect land in the United Kingdom, and an environmental activist who has been jailed for his opposition to a major water project in South Korea are among the people and organizations who[Read More…]
Canada Declares Farm Use of Neonicotinoids ‘Unsustainable’
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. Last Friday, Health Canada released new measures the agency claims are intended to protect bees from exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides. As with recent regulations proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), beekeepers and environmental groups are criticizing the measures as inadequate, not going far enough[Read More…]
EPA Provides Grant for Organic Gardening and Composting Training in Brooklyn
Community Gardens in Bedford-Stuyvesant to Benefit from Program New York, N.Y.–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $30,000 to Green Guerillas, a New York City community-based organization, to teach organic gardening skills to a team of Brooklyn young people. The grant was awarded under the EPA’s Environmental[Read More…]
United States, Russia Sign Agreement to Further Research and Development Collaboration in Nuclear Energy and Security
VIENNA–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2013. U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Director General of the Russian Federation State Corporation “Rosatom” Sergey Kirienko today signed the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in Nuclear- and Energy-Related Scientific Research and Development on[Read More…]
EPA Marks Pollution Prevention (P2) Week with Renewed Emphasis on Reducing Carbon Pollution
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2013. During Pollution Prevention (P2) Week, September 16-22, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encourages Americans to prevent or reduce pollution at the source. This year’s pollution prevention week comes just three months after President Obama’s speech at Georgetown University where he outlined his Climate Action Plan to[Read More…]
