Salazar announces $1.2 billion in high bids for 1.7 million acres Offshore Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi NEW ORLEANS, La.–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2013.  Taking the latest step in President Obama’s efforts to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Department of the Interior yesterday held a nearly 39 million-acre[Read More…]

U.S. Spring Flood Risk Map for 2013. Read the full National Hydrologic Assessment. Download here (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2013.  NOAA issued the three-month U.S. Spring Outlook today, stating that odds favor above-average temperatures across much of the continental United States, including drought-stricken areas of Texas, the Southwest and[Read More…]

Ruling upholds Interior Department’s authority to temporarily protect lands from destructive mining Grand Canyon National Park, AZ–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2013. U.S. District Judge David Campbell yesterday denied a uranium industry motion to overturn the Obama administration’s ban on new uranium mining on 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon. The ban[Read More…]

Edison financials show keeping reactor shut down three times cheaper than startup SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2013. Restarting one of the crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors this summer would cost Southern California Edison’s customers three times as much as keeping it shut down and buying power from other sources, according to[Read More…]

Brasilia, Brazil–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2013.  U.S. Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman and Brazil’s Deputy Minister of Mines and Energy Márcio Pereira Zimmermann this week co-chaired the second meeting of the Strategic Energy Dialogue announced by President Obama and President Rousseff in March 2011.  The Strategic Energy Dialogue is a presidential-level partnership[Read More…]

Gas industry loses fight to keep fracking pollution case secret Harrisburg, PA–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2013. A judge ruled today in favor of journalists seeking access to information about a fracking pollution court case.   The doctors, scientists, and advocates argued in favor of greater transparency about natural gas operations and their[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2013.  Loss of habitat to genetically engineered (GE) cropland, as well as increasingly warm temperatures are responsible for the dramatic decline in Monarch butterfly populations, according to scientists who say populations are the lowest they have seen in two decades. This comes as the state of pollinators continues[Read More…]

Restoration of Natural Water Flows to Everglades National Park Marks Completion of Modified Water Delivery Project EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla.–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) Jo-Ellen Darcy and other local officials to celebrate the completion of a one-mile[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013.  As the Spring growing season begins, join the Historic Pullman Garden Club for refreshments and good company, as we continue our 2013 Winter Lecture series, on Sunday, March 24, beginning at 3 p.m. at the Greenstone Church Fellowship Hall, 11211 South St. Lawrence, Chicago. We will give[Read More…]

Tennessee Valley Authority retrofits aging coal plant outside of Nashville Nashville, TN–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013. In response to legal pressure from conservation groups, the Tennessee Valley Authority has agreed to spare one of the nation’s most successful nurseries for imperiled freshwater species as part of a plan to retrofit the aging[Read More…]