Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2013. Pennsylvania’s Presque Isle State Park, located on Lake Erie, recently contracted a commercial helicopter to spray herbicides on 170 acres of the park in an attempt to control an overgrowth of phragmites and narrow leaf cattail. This decision to aerial spray herbicides comes after the park has unsuccessfully[Read More…]
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Salazar, Jarvis Celebrate Pinnacles’ New Status as 59th National Park
President signs legislation to elevate status of 1908 national monument in California’s Gabilan Mountains WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2013. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the National Park Service Jonathan B. Jarvis today celebrated the establishment of America’s 59th national park with President Obama’s signature of legislation to elevate[Read More…]
NASA’S Galex Reveals The Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2013. The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil has crowned it the largest-known spiral, based on archival data from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission. GALEX has[Read More…]
EPA Excludes Details on Worker Protection Rule
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2013. Environmentalists, farm workers, and farmworker advocates have become increasingly uncomfortable with the new proposal for pesticide safety measures which does not include details on how the proposed rule will protect agricultural workers, farmers, and applicators. These sentiments stem from the concern that this may mean less[Read More…]
Get Plugged in at Prairie State College
CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–January 10, 2013. The Sustainability Center at Prairie State College (PSC) is excited to offer free charging to community members at the college’s newly installed Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations. The charging stations are part of the college’s strategic sustainability plan and are just one of the many initiatives[Read More…]
Conservation Groups Ask President Obama for a Suspension of Arctic Ocean Drilling
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 10, 2013. National Audubon Society, National Parks Conservation Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oceana, Ocean Conservancy, Pacific Environment, Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society called on Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to suspend offshore oil and gas activities in the Arctic Ocean. This letter comes after Shell[Read More…]
President Obama Needs to Establish a Conservation Legacy in Addition to a Drilling Legacy
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 10, 2013. Today, as President Barack Obama builds his new energy and environment team for his second term, the Center for American Progress released “President Obama Needs to Establish a Conservation Legacy in Addition to a Drilling Legacy.” This column and the accompanying charts show that the number[Read More…]
Report Finds Children Across Maine at Risk from Pesticides
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 10, 2013. The public health and environmental non-profit, Toxics Action Center (TAC) released a report in December that surveys pesticide use on public school grounds across the state of Maine and urges policy change to stop spraying. The report, “A Call for Safer School Grounds: A Survey of Pesticide[Read More…]
NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence for Asteroid Belt Around Vega
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2013. Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The scientists used data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, in which NASA plays an important[Read More…]
Supreme Court Returns Los Angeles County Water Ruling to Lower Court
Millions of Angelenos Remain Exposed to Stormwater Pollution WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling yesterday allowing Los Angeles County’s Flood Control District temporarily to avoid responsibility for the high levels of water pollution found in the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers. In a lawsuit[Read More…]
