Landmark Case Study Demonstrates Cost Savings Available to Building Owners and Real Estate Developers throughout India NEW DELHI–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2013 – Building owners and real estate developers throughout India’s rapidly expanding urban areas stand to benefit financially from energy-efficiency building upgrades, according to a landmark business case study released today[Read More…]
Environmental
Conservationists Seek Solution to Critical Salmon Barrier on Rogue Basin’s Evans Creek
Fielder Dam ranks in Oregon’s top ten list of barriers harmful to salmon, steelhead Medford, OR–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2013. In the wake of failed efforts to broker the voluntary removal of the Rogue Basin’s defunct Fielder Dam, WaterWatch of Oregon filed suit in U.S. District Court today, contending that the dam[Read More…]
Groups Appeal Fracking Chemical Case to Wyoming Supreme Court
Public interest organizations are seeking disclosure of chemicals that are injected underground Cheyenne, WY–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2013. Several public interest and government watchdog groups have appealed to Wyoming’s highest court, asking it to compel the state’s oil and gas permitting agency to disclose the chemicals that are injected underground during the[Read More…]
EPA Announces U.S. Organizations Using the Most Green Power
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2013. Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Green Power Partnership released an updated list of the Top 50 organizations that are choosing to use electricity from clean, renewable sources. “We applaud the leadership demonstrated by organizations that are helping reduce carbon pollution and spur the growth of[Read More…]
Climate Change Augments Agricultural Chemical Impacts on Lake Erie
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2013. With hotter and more frequent extreme weather events, scientists say harmful algal blooms caused by pesticides and fertilizer inputs will strike more often in water bodies like Lake Erie, to the detriment of aquatic life and surrounding wildlife. All trends, show that the conditions that caused[Read More…]
Communities Ask Court for Protection from Toxic Air Pollution
Cement plants should start cleaning up now Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–April 17, 2013. Today, environmental and community groups asked a federal court to stay a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken and delay Clean Air Act protection against toxic pollution from cement plants. By the agency’s own calculations,[Read More…]
New York Town Repeals Fracking Gag Order After Free Speech Lawsuit
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 17, 2013 – The Town Board of Sanford, NY, has repealed the gag order it passed last summer on discussing fracking at their meetings, following a First Amendment lawsuit filed in February by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy. As a result, the[Read More…]
Robin Hood Tax Legislation Introduced, Could Generate Billions of Dollars to Fight Climate Change
WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—April 17, 2013. Friends of the Earth U.S. joined Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) on Capitol Hill today to support the introduction of the Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2013, which would establish a tax on financial transactions, popularly known as a Robin Hood Tax. The tax would generate hundreds of[Read More…]
American Rivers Announces America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2013
Outdated water management threatens #1 Most Endangered River, the Colorado River, and rivers nationwide Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 17, 2013. American Rivers today announced its annual list of America’s Most Endangered Rivers®, naming the Colorado River the Most Endangered River in the country. The Colorado River is endangered by outdated water management[Read More…]
Energy Department Highlights Nissan’s Better Plants Challenge Showcase Project in Tennessee
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 17, 2013. As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to lowering energy bills for U.S. businesses, the Energy Department today recognized Nissan’s participation in the Better Buildings, Better Plants Challenge and its showcase project at the company’s new energy efficient paint plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and[Read More…]
