WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 8, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced that 43 communities — rural, urban and suburban — will receive technical assistance to pursue sustainable growth that encourages local economic development while safeguarding people’s health and the environment. EPA consulted with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 8, 2013. A recent study conducted at the University of Granda, Spain and published in the Journal Environmental Research proposes a link between exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in food, air, and water and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in adults, regardless of age, gender, and body[Read More…]

Auction offers all unleased areas offshore Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2013. As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau today announced[Read More…]

MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2013. This soccer game was contested on grass free of pesticides. Across the United States, however, many fields are coated with toxic pesticides. In a stirring report linking pesticide exposure to children’s illnesses, a major American agency issued a call today to limit exposures during the most susceptible[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2013. El Niño, warmer than average waters in the Eastern equatorial Pacific (shown in orange on the map), affects weather around the world. A new study, just published in the February 2013 issue of the Journal of Climate, describes an atmospheric El Niño signal that is very[Read More…]

New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2013. Yesterday Health Professions Press announced the release of Bird Tales, a low cost, high-impact program to improve the lives of people living with Alzheimer’s disease. The program was developed by dementia-care expert Randy Griffin in partnership with the National Audubon Society, Toyota, and TransCon. Bird[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2013 – As part of a scheduled review process, the nine states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)—a four-year-old power plant pollution-cutting program in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic—today announced changes to further strengthen the program and build on the success it has had to-date in[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2013. As part of President’s Obama’s all-of-the-above approach to American energy, the U.S. Departments of Energy and the Treasury today announced the availability of $150 million in Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy and energy efficiency manufacturing projects across the United States. This important tax program[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2013) Despite passing the Senate Public Affairs Committee last week after an overwhelmingly positive discussion, Senate Bill 18 to amend the New Mexico Food Act, which would require the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food and feed, was “deemed lost” after a majority of the Senate, in an[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 5, 2013.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to register a new insecticide, sulfoxaflor, which the agency has classified as “very highly toxic” to honey bees. Despite efforts underway in Europe to protect bee populations, and continued warnings from beekeepers, EPA is poised to allow another[Read More…]