Investors urge EPA to protect environmental justice communities PVC plant, Mossville, LA Photo by CDC Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2012. Public pressure is mounting for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen toxic air pollution standards at polyvinyl chloride (PVC) chemical plants, especially for two that were singled out for[Read More…]
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US, Mexico Sign Agreement Addressing High Priority Border Environmental Issues
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2012. Yesterday U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson joined Mexico’s Secretary for the Environment and Natural Resources Juan Elvira Quesada to sign the Border 2020 U.S.-Mexico Environmental program agreement. The signing was witnessed by a number of leaders including the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico E.[Read More…]
Groups Urge EPA to Ban Dangerous Rat Poisons
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2012. On Monday, Beyond Pesticides joined with 23 public health and environmental advocacy groups to send a letter to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging it to follow through with its original plan to cancel the sale of most toxic rat poisons to residential consumers. In[Read More…]
Condominium Residents Win Fight Against Pesticide Use
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2012. Residents of a large condominium in New Jersey have won their fight against the use of pesticides on the complex’s lawn. The homeowner’s association agreed with residents’ pleas to alter its treatment of lawns, instituting an integrated pest management (IPM) policy to avoid using toxic pesticides.[Read More…]
Astronomers Crack Mystery Of The ‘Monster Stars’
An image of the Wolf-Rayet star R136a1, the most massive star known. Credit: Wikipedia. Bonn, Germany-(ENEWSPF)- In 2010 scientists discovered four ‘monster’ sized stars, with the heaviest more than 300 times as massive as our Sun. Despite their incredible luminosity, these exotic objects, located in the giant star cluster R136[Read More…]
Curiosity: Orbiter Images NASA’s Martian Landscape Additions
The four main pieces of hardware that arrived on Mars with NASA’s Curiosity rover were spotted by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera captured this image about 24 hours after landing. The large, reduced-scale image points out the strewn hardware: the heat shield was[Read More…]
Bruce Willis Couldn’t Save Us from Asteroid Doom
Students discover asteroid-splitting technique in Armageddon would not work University Leicester-(ENEWSPF)- According to the internet hysteria surrounding the ancient Mayan calendar, an asteroid could be on its way to wipe out the world on December 21, 2012. Obviously this is pretty unlikely – but if an asteroid really is on[Read More…]
Video: Zooming in on the Scene of Curiosity’s Landing
Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Follow along on a tour of the landing scene of NASA’s Curiosity rover in this video made up of images from two NASA orbiters. The movie begins with a global image from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor, then switches to views from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)[Read More…]
Curiosity: New Mars Rover Beams Back Images Showing its Descent (Video/Text)
This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA’s Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The image was obtained by the Mars Descent Imager instrument known as MARDI and shows the 15-foot (4.5-meter) diameter heat shield when it was about[Read More…]
New Signs of Trouble for Kemper Coal Plant: Mississippi Power Reportedly Fires Construction and Engineering Firms
Move Prompts New Questions of Kemper Plant’s Viability Jackson, MS–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2012. Today, Sierra Club learned that Mississippi Power has effectively terminated the company’s partnership with two companies highly involved in the design and construction of the Kemper County Coal Plant. KBR, a Texas-based company, was jointly responsible for the[Read More…]
