First of Four Expansion Phases to Deliver Recycling Services to 131,000 Households CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2013. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced yesterday that more than 131,000 households will begin receiving blue cart recycling services in March and April as the recycling program expands citywide. Taking recycling citywide was a key 2013 budget[Read More…]

EPA Requests Comment to Address Uncertainties Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2013.  On February 6, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its preliminary volatilization assessment for the registration review of chlorpyrifos, finding that vapor phase chlorpyrifos may be emitted from treated fields at levels resulting in exposure to children and others[Read More…]

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–19 February 2013 – Many chemicals found in household and industrial products that have not been adequately tested could have disrupting effects on the hormone system and lead to significant health issues, according to a United Nations report released today. The report highlights some associations between exposure to endocrine disrupting[Read More…]

Greenway, when complete, will connect three National Wildlife Refuges, Rocky Mountain National Park, and hundreds of miles of trails and open spaces in Denver Metropolitan Region COMMERCE CITY, Colo.–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood joined Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper yesterday to[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013.  On February 14, Beyond Pesticides joined with Earthjustice, Farmworker Justice, and a number of other environmental and farmworker organizations to submit a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson, urging for long overdue revisions to the Workers Protection Standard (WPS) of the Federal Insecticide,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2013.  Bats around the U.S. are being decimated by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). The deadly disease was detected recently at Kentucky’s Cumberland Gap National Historic Park, according to the National Park Service. Based on laboratory testing, three bats were discovered with WNS, coming from three separate caves[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2012. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that Presque Isle Bay, on the Pennsylvania shore of Lake Erie, has been removed from the list of heavily contaminated Great Lakes sites targeted for cleanup by the U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Environmental conditions in Presque Isle Bay[Read More…]

(Source: AccuWeather.com.) State College, PA-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather.com reports a major storm may come together to bring wind-whipped snow to the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region early next week, while severe storms could ignite on the southern edge. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio may get travel-disrupting snow from the storm[Read More…]

Court reverses BLM policy of keeping the nominators’ identity secret until after the lease sale DENVER–(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2013. A federal court ruled yesterday that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) policy and practice of keeping secret from the public the identity of entities nominating public lands for oil and gas development is[Read More…]

EU–(ENEWSPF)–14 February 2013.  An international team of scientists using new measurements from ESA’s ice mission has discovered that the volume of Arctic sea ice has declined by 36% during autumn and 9% during winter between 2003 and 2012. Satellite records show a constant downward trend in the area covered by[Read More…]