Cite climate change and toxic tar sand as number one danger to public’s health Richmond, CA–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2013. Registered nurses will join a broad and growing number of labor, environmental, and community organizations in one of the largest climate justice events in recent history on Saturday, the first-year anniversary of[Read More…]
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Key DOE Environmental Review of Plan to Use Weapons Plutonium as Mixed Oxide Reactor fuel Delayed Again, Signaling Problems as Options Being Assessed
Friends of the Earth: Mixed oxide fuel is ‘massive waste’ of tax dollars and must be terminated WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—August 1, 2013. The Department of Energy has once again failed to meet its schedule on the release of a key environmental document on the review of use of plutonium fuel in[Read More…]
Interior Holds First-Ever Competitive Lease Sale for Renewable Energy in Federal Waters
Historic Auction Leases Nearly 165,000 Acres Offshore Rhode Island and Massachusetts for Wind Energy Development, Advances President’s Climate Action Plan WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2013. As part of President Obama’s comprehensive plan to move our economy toward domestic clean energy sources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell[Read More…]
Florida Project Produces Nation’s First Cellulosic Ethanol at Commercial-Scale
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2013. The Energy Department yesterday recognized the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production at INEOS Bio’s Indian River BioEnergy Center in Vero Beach, Florida. Developed through a joint venture between INEOS Bio and New Planet Energy, the project uses a unique hybrid of gasification and fermentation technology –[Read More…]
EPA Proposes Rule to Modernize Clean Water Act Reporting
E-reporting initiative will increase efficiency, ease burden for states and improve public access to data WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a rule that would modernize Clean Water Act (CWA) reporting processes for hundreds of thousands of municipalities, industries, and other facilities by converting to[Read More…]
Pioneering Climate Change Lawsuit To Reduce Natural Gas Leaks From Oil & Gas Operations Moves to Court of Appeals
Conservation groups appeal dismissal of lawsuit seeking to force BLM to protect the climate and stop the waste of natural gas resources caused by sloppy development Great Falls, Mont.–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2013. Today, the Western Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Montana Environmental Information Center, Earthworks’ Oil and Gas Accountability[Read More…]
Appropriations Bill Would Prohibit EPA’s Phase-Out of Sulfuryl Fluoride
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2013. The House of Representatives Appropriations Interior and Environmental subcommittee voted Tuesday 7-4 to approve an appropriations bill that would cut the budget of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by nearly a third, and includes language that would prevent the agency from enforcing its decision[Read More…]
Brain-Eating Amoeba Case Linked to Warm Water, Drought
(PHOTO SUPPLIED) State College, PA-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather reports a 12-year-old girl contracted a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba in Arkansas, and it may be tied to summer heat and drought conditions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The amoeba, or single-celled organism, that caused the infection[Read More…]
Groups Will Defend Sea Otter Recovery in Southern California
Industry lawsuit seeks to eliminate sea otters from habitat Monterey, CA–(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2013. Conservation and wildlife groups announced today that they intend to defend a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to end a failed policy of trying to exclude sea otters from their Southern California habitat—a so-called[Read More…]
Lawsuit Challenges Federal Financing of Coal Exports from East Coast Ports
Suit charges taxpayer-backed U.S. Export-Import Bank with failure to assess environmental impacts of its dirty-fuel exports San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2013. Environmental groups today filed the first-ever lawsuit challenging the federal government’s financing for the export of Appalachian coal from the United States. The U.S. government approved this financial support[Read More…]
