Great Falls, MT–(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2013.  Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ordered BLM to go back and take a harder look at how a new management plan for the Upper Missouri Breaks National Monument may impact cultural and historic properties. In June 2009, the Western Environmental Law Center[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2013. Environmental officials are investigating why dozens of dead fish are washing up on the banks of two rivers in western Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), Canada. For the third time in three years, dead fish have been spotted rising to the surface of Barclay Brook where thousands[Read More…]

Mayor Emanuel discusses water infrastructure investment at the Israel-Chicago Water Technology Innovation Forum.  Photo Credit: Brooke Collins // City of Chicago CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2013.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel attended today the first collaborative Israel-Chicago Water Technology and Innovation Forum, joining top engineers and leaders from water management in Illinois, the Midwest,[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2013.  U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today sounded the alarm about the U.S. House of Representatives’ plans to cut funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) by 80 percent.  Those cuts would severely impact federal programs created to address major ecological problems facing the Great Lakes, including[Read More…]

Chicago—(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2013 —The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that Enbridge has begun a new round of dredging in Michigan’s Kalamazoo River to clean up oil from the company’s July 2010 pipeline spill.  The cleanup work is required by EPA’s March 2013 administrative order, which requires Enbridge to complete[Read More…]

New York–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2013 – JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) announced today that one of its energy subsidiaries, J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation, has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission resolving the agency’s investigation of the Firm’s bidding and offering of electricity from certain[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—July 30, 2013. Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline today asked Secretary John Kerry to throw out the State Department’s environmental review of the proposed tar sands pipeline because consultants in charge of the review lied about conflicts of interests, including working for TransCanada, the company behind the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2013.  A recent study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry found levels of pesticide contamination from agricultural drift in Pacific Tree frogs in remote mountain areas including national parks. The study supports past research on the pesticide transport through atmospheric dust and rain. To conduct the study,[Read More…]

MORGANTOWN, W. Va.–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2013.  Yesterday, Secretary Moniz dedicated a new supercomputer—one of the world’s fastest and most energy efficient—at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The high-performance computer for energy and the environment is not only one of the top 100 supercomputers in the world, but it is also[Read More…]

Lawsuit challenges DEC for overstepping its authority and for violating Federal Clean Water Act and State Environmental Quality Review Act requirements Albany, NY–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2013. A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for its deregulation of industrial dairy farms[Read More…]