WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2012.  Interior Secretary Ken Salazar released the following statement today after Shell announced it would not drill into oil-bearing zones in the Arctic this year: “The Interior Department will continue to work with Shell as it oversees the company’s preparatory drilling work and other data-gathering activities in the[Read More…]

“Let’s Turn, Not Burn” calls for new clean energy generation Uniondale, New York –(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2012.  Today the Sierra Club launched a robust new campaign calling on the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) to choose clean, renewable energy like offshore wind for Long Island’s energy future. LIPA is currently debating[Read More…]

MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2012.   Top-dressing the lawn with compost prior to overseeding serves several beneficial functions. In the northern half of the nation, the days are still warm, the nights are cool and Mother Nature usually provides plenty of rain. The humidity drops, biting insects take a break and garden[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2012 In the sonar image from the 2009 expedition, the summit of the West Mata volcano (shown in red) is nearly a mile below the ocean surface (1,165 meters/3,882 feet), and the base (in blue), descends to nearly two miles (3,000 m/9,842 ft) deep. The eruptive activity[Read More…]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2012.  Extreme precipitation in the tropics comes in many forms: thunderstorm complexes, flood-inducing monsoons and wide-sweeping cyclones like the recent Hurricane Isaac. Global warming is expected to intensify extreme precipitation, but the rate at which it does so in the tropics has remained unclear. Now an MIT[Read More…]

NETHERLANDS–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2012.  Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) is engaged in a multi-year drilling programme to explore for new oil & gas resources in high-potential blocks in offshore Alaska. Important progress has been made with this programme, with two drill ships, more than twenty support vessels, an approved capping stack, and[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF—September 17, 2012.  Citizens in rural Oregon are concerned for their health after discovering that several major timber companies –Weyerhaeuser, Roseburg Resources, Stimson Lumber, Seneca Jones and others– have been spraying millions of pounds of herbicides on their private forestland since the 1970s. The pesticides were aerially sprayed after[Read More…]

Film Screening, Panel Discussion Set for Oct. 4 in Colorado Bob Posthuma, right, shown with Sandy Syburg, the founder of Purple Cow Organics, will be among several expert panelists at a Boulder event Oct. 4. BOULDER, CO.–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2012.  With a contingent of the leaders in the organic lawn care[Read More…]

Dangerous legislation would prevent the EPA from ever protecting public from toxic coal ash Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 14, 2012.  Today more than 300 public interest groups representing millions of citizens from 43 states sent a letter to the U.S. Senate opposing S.3512, the “Coal Ash Recycling and Oversight Act of 2012.”[Read More…]

Donation of nearly 77,000-Acre Easement by Louis Bacon Establishes Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area DENVER, Colo.–(ENEWSPF)–September 14, 2012.  Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar today announced the formal establishment of the Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area as the nation’s 558th unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System, thanks to the donation[Read More…]