Argyre Planitia and Hooke Crater EU–(ENEWSPF)–4 October 2012.On 8 June, the high-resolution stereo camera on Mars Express captured a region within the 1800 km-wide and 5 km-deep Argyre basin, which was created by a gigantic impact in the planet’s early history. After Hellas, the Argyre impact basin is the second[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 4, 2012. Persons living around the CITGO refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, who suffered immediate negative health effects from emissions from two large tanks at the facility that were operated between January 1994 and May 2003 in violation of the federal Clean Air Act, may be crime victims in[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 4, 2012.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released updated tables for its Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, which was released in 2009. The new data includes updated tables for 119 chemicals and tables for 34 new chemicals, including updates for[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 3, 2012.  A study published this week by Washington State University’s research professor Charles Benbrook, PhD, finds that the use of herbicides in the production of three genetically engineered herbicide-tolerant crops -cotton, soybeans and corn- has actually increased, contrary to industry claims that the technology would reduce pesticide[Read More…]

146-mile infrastructure project to follow corridor of existing transmission line, create jobs, improve region’s grid reliability in northeast WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2012. Following an exhaustive environmental review, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the National Park Service (NPS) has approved construction of the 4.5 mile section of the[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2012 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced 21 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GRLI) grants totaling nearly $8 million for projects to combat invasive species in the Great Lakes basin in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin.   “These EPA grants will prevent the spread[Read More…]

MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2012.  The province of Winnepeg in Canada is one of the last major holdouts of the nation’s pesticide revolution that began in Hudson, Quebec, in 1985. In Canada, the vast majority of the population — more than 80 percent — lives in municipalities where weed killers are banned[Read More…]

Lykes Brothers pressures state to bar public’s right to use river Tallahassee, FL–(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2012.  Earthjustice today filed a suit against the Florida Department of Environmental Protection because the agency is pursuing a plan which would cut off the public’s boating access to part of Fisheating Creek in Glades County.[Read More…]

Washington–(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2012.  Today, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that registration is now open for the 2013 National Science Bowl (NSB). This marks the beginning of the 23rd year of the nation’s largest science competition, which is sponsored by the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science.  Local middle[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2012. The herbicide atrazine may be linked to an amplified risk of choanal atresia, a congenital abnormality of the nasal cavity, according to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and other Texas institutions. Choanal atresia is recognized when tissue formed during fetal development blocks an infant’s nasal[Read More…]