Satellite image of 2011 bloom (the most severe in decades). Download here (Credit: MERIS/NASA; processed by NOAA/NOS/NCCOS ) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 3, 2013.  NOAA and its research partners predict that the 2013 western Lake Erie harmful algal bloom (HAB) season will have a significant bloom of cyanobacteria, a toxic blue-green algae,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 3, 2013.  In light of recent action in Europe to suspend to use of certain neonicotinoid pesticides, Beyond Pesticides joined 12 other environmental and advocacy organizations in urging the Obama administration to direct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow the European Union’s (EU) lead in recognizing[Read More…]

Corporate Climate Campaign led by Sierra Club and ForestEthics Gains Momentum San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2013.  Fifty eight organizations, led by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics, released anopen letter today demanding that companies take climate action. The letter calls on U.S. corporations with trucking fleets join19 leading companies in avoiding[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2013.  In the wake of massive bee kills, the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) is placing temporary restrictions on the use of pesticides with the active ingredient dinotefuran. Dinotefuran, a neonicotinoid pesticide, was confirmed as the cause of one massive bee die-off in Wilsonville, Oregon, and suspected[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2013.  As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the U.S. Department of Energy announced today a draft loan guarantee solicitation for innovative and advanced fossil energy projects and facilities that substantially reduce greenhouse gas and other air pollution. The Advanced Fossil Energy Projects solicitation, authorized by[Read More…]

175,000 public comments submitted to the Forest Service Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 1, 2013. Members of the environmental community made the following statements today after the June 30 closure of the public comment period for the Tongass National Forest’s five-year review of its Land Management Plan. Members of the organizations submitting these[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 1, 2013. Today the Global Ocean Commission announced that John Podesta, Chair of the Center for American Progress and a former White House chief of staff, is joining the commission. “I am delighted to be joining the Global Ocean Commission, which I see as one of the most[Read More…]

“I decided that I could roll with [change] or be crushed by it, and I learned to roll with it.” NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–July 1, 2013.   National Audubon Society President and CEO David Yarnold is profiled in Patricia R. Olsen’s “The Boss” column in The New York Times: “I was born[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- In this week’s address, President Obama told the American people about a plan he unveiled a few days ago that confronts the growing threat of climate change, which will cut carbon pollution, protect our country from the impacts of climate change, and lead the world in a coordinated[Read More…]