New Sierra Club Report Details Barbour’s Lobbying Gains   JACKSON, MS–(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2012.  A new report from the Mississippi Sierra Club has revealed that former Governor Haley Barbour has failed to disclose his financial ties to corporate giant Southern Company, parent company of Mississippi Power (MPCO). In recent public statements the[Read More…]

MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2012. Silicon’s crown is under threat: The semiconductor’s days as the king of microchips for computers and smart devices could be numbered, thanks to the development of the smallest transistor ever to be built from a[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2102.  Shell’s investors are facing a tougher international legal environment that is likely to have a dramatic impact on its balance sheet as claims mount from its activities in the Niger Delta, according to a new independent report from specialists at the University of Essex. The potential[Read More…]

Groundbreaking new campaign tells personal stories of Americans impacted by climate-driven extreme weather Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2012. Friends of the Earth announced today the launch of its new Climate Stories campaign. The project, produced in partnership with HEIST (http://heistprojects.com), uses powerful, emotional video shot entirely on location to bring to[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– December 10, 2012.  Long-term low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides produces lasting damage to neurological and cognitive functions, according to researchers at University College London (UCL). This research pulls data from 14 studies over the past 20 years, including more than 1,600 participants, in order to provide a quantitative[Read More…]

Drought persists, causing water resource issues for central U.S.; 2012 virtually certain to become warmest year on record for the nation Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 7, 2012. The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during November was 44.1°F, 2.1°F above the 20th century average, tying 2004 as the 20th warmest November on[Read More…]

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–December 7, 2012. Did different species of early humans interbreed and produce offspring of mixed ancestry? Recent genetic studies suggest that Neanderthals may have bred with anatomically modern humans tens of thousands of years ago in the Middle East, contributing to the modern human gene pool. But the findings[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 7, 2012. As part of the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative, which is working to make solar energy competitive with other forms of energy without subsidy by the end of the decade, the Energy Department yesterday announced a $29 million investment in four projects that will help advance affordable, reliable[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 7, 2012. The Danish Consumer Council and the Danish Ecological Council, in cooperation with the Technical University of Denmark, have launched the first ever nanotechnology database, with an inventory on 1,200 products that contain or are claimed to be a “nano” products. The database provides a description of[Read More…]

Charitum Montes EU–(ENEWSPF)–6 December 2012The high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express imaged the Charitum Montes region of the Red Planet on 18 June, near to Gale crater and the Argyre basin featured in our October and November image releases.  The brighter features, giving the image an ethereal winter-like feel[Read More…]