PASADENA, Calif.–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2012.  An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot (almost 16 meter)-wide parachute as it descended toward its landing site at Gale Crater Sunday. “If HiRISE took the image[Read More…]

Enbridge Agrees to More Stringent Pipeline Safety Requirements, Commits to Broader Improvements for Lakehead Region WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2012.  The Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration today announced that Enbridge Energy has met the requirements of last week’s amended corrective action order and executed a consent agreement. These[Read More…]

Developing Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy on Public Lands Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2012.  Today, on the eve of the National Clean Energy Summit 5.0 in Las Vegas, the Center for American Progress released “The Vast Potential for Renewable Energy in the American West,” an analysis projecting that the federal lands[Read More…]

File Clean Water Act lawsuit against lagging EPA   Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2012.  A coalition of conservation, wildlife and public health groups in the Gulf region and in Alaska filed a citizen suit under the provisions of the federal Clean Water Act today to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency[Read More…]

Cross state trading program not as effective as updating pollution technologies   Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August, 6, 2012.  Conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today to force the clean-up of polluting coal plants that degrade visibility and harm human health in national parks, wilderness areas, and other[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2012.  As part of President Obama’s ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy to responsibly develop America’s domestic energy resources, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Defense are teaming up to strengthen the nation’s energy security and reduce military utility costs. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of[Read More…]

PASADENA, Calif. –(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2012.  NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft that carried[Read More…]

  Curiosity’s first view of Mars EU–(ENEWSPF)–6 August 2012. This morning at 7:14 CEST, ESA’s Mars Express acquired signals from NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory as it delivered the car-sized Curiosity rover onto the Red planet’s surface. ESA’s New Norcia tracking station also picked up signals directly from the NASA mission,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– August 6, 1012.  The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed a ruling that gave organic farmers clear redress and decided that pesticide drift from one farm to another is not trespass, but instead must, in litigation, be found to be negligence or a nuisance. The ruling, while still giving farmers[Read More…]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.–(ENEWSPF)–August 3, 2012.  NASA Friday announced new agreements with three American commercial companies to design and develop the next generation of U.S. human spaceflight capabilities, enabling a launch of astronauts from U.S. soil in the next five years. Advances made by these companies under newly signed Space Act[Read More…]