Awards honor leaders and innovators in sustainable food and agriculture SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(ENEWSPF)–April 4, 2013 – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today celebrates four remarkable food vanguards for their pioneering efforts to create healthier and more sustainable food systems at the fifth annual Growing Green Awards. The winners, who[Read More…]

‘Disgraceful’ scheme for risky nuclear experiment could begin June 1 WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2013.  In an extraordinary admission, Southern California Edison said today that as part of the experimental plan to restart one of the crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors, the utility expects to have to shut it down and restart[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 4, 2013.  As drones have entered civilian life through police surveillance, commercial entrepreneurs are increasingly looking into innovative ways that they may be used for agricultural purposes, particularly for early signs of disease detection and aerial imaging of fields for farmers, but also for application of pesticides. Drone-related[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2013.  Last week, Syngenta and Bayer CropScience proposed an action plan to forestall pending European Union (EU) restrictions on their neonicotinoid products that have been linked to global bee declines.  Stating that a ban on their products would not save hives, the plan focuses on implementing agricultural[Read More…]

Encouraging people to Get Out and Enjoy, Explore and Protect the Planet SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2013.  Today the Sierra Club launched a new campaign urging people to get outdoors.  GET OUT is expanding the conservation movement by creating opportunities for people who care about the environment and the outdoors to[Read More…]

Coal export proposals would worsen existing water pollution SEATTLE–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2013.  Today, the Sierra Club and its partners sent a 60-day notice of intent to sue to Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) and several coal companies for violations of the federal Clean Water Act. The Sierra Club, Puget Soundkeeper,[Read More…]

A Lake Erie algae bloom in September 2009. This photo was taken on the southeast shore of Pelee Island, Ontario. Image credit: Tom Archer ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2013.  The largest harmful algae bloom in Lake Erie’s recorded history was likely caused by the confluence of changing farming practices and weather[Read More…]

Protections stay in place for marbled murrelets and their old-growth forest habitat Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2013. Marbled murrelets and their old-growth forest nesting habitat in the Pacific Northwest remain protected after a Washington, D.C. district court yesterday rejected both a proposal to eliminate all critical habitat protections and a[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2013.  Today the Center for American Progress released the short documentary video, “Boom Without Boundaries,” which explores the Bakken oil boom’s negative, industrial-scale impacts on Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. The film is narrated by Winthrop Roosevelt, great-great grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2013.   On March 26, President Obama signed into law House Resolution 933, a stop-gap Continuing Resolution that allowed the U.S. to avoid a government shutdown for six months. The resolution also contained the “biotech rider,” or amendment that took away the authority of federal courts to[Read More…]