Billboard campaign urges utility to retire local coal plant, invest in renewable energy INDIANAPOLIS–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013.  The Sierra Club, Citizens Action Coalition, NAACP and Hoosier Interfaith Power & Light today unveiled an aggressive new billboard advertising campaign in Indianapolis urging Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL) to retire the local Harding[Read More…]

METEOSAT image.High resolution (Credit: EUMETSAT) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013.  Building on a 30-year relationship, top officials from NOAA and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) signed a long-term cooperative agreement, ensuring continued space-based weather, water and climate monitoring. At a ceremony at the European Union (EU)[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013.  MotorScience and Zheng have agreed to have a stipulated judgment entered against them for a $3.55 million civil penalty and to pay an additional $60,000 civil penalty within six months. The United States will receive 80 percent of collected penalties, and California will receive the remaining[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013. A federal lawsuit was filed on Tuesday to stop the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops and restrict the widespread use of pesticides in national wildlife refuges in the Midwest Region. The lawsuit seeks to enforce the legal requirement that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2013.  Industry giant, Syngenta, has filed a legal challenge to the European Union’s suspension of one of its insecticides, thiamethoxam, linked to the decline in bee populations that has been observed in Europe and the rest of the world. Thiamethoxam, a neonicotinoid and active ingredient in Syngenta’s[Read More…]

2.7-Mile Multipurpose Elevated Trail to Open Fall 2014 as Centerpiece of The 606, Linking Five Community Parks and Amenities CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel today joined officials from the Chicago Park District, the Chicago Department of Transportation, and The Trust for Public Land to break ground on the Bloomingdale[Read More…]

Report Shows County-by-County Analysis of Impacts in the Ten States with Highest Crop Insurance Losses due to Extreme Weather CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013 – Extreme weather forced the Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) to pay out a record-breaking $17.3 billion in crop losses last year, much of which could have been[Read More…]

Maps are the latest in a mounting body of evidence proving the damaging environmental impacts of mass-scale biomass energy production AHOSKIE, N.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013 – New maps and a report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Dogwood Alliance reveal the ecological threat a major wood pellet[Read More…]

USCS Robert J. Walker was returning home from pre-Civil War hydrographic survey mission In 1852, W.A.K. Martin painted this picture of the Robert J. Walker. The painting, now at the Mariner’s Museum in Newport News, Va., is scheduled for restoration. High resolution (Credit: The Mariners’ Museum) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013. [Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013.  A new study by scientists at the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources is shedding light on the persistence of nanopesticides in our food. Researchers focused their attention on silver nanoparticles (nanosilver), a substance that has been linked to environmental harm, bacterial[Read More…]