MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–July 25, 2012. Poor installation and/or maintenance of a sprinkler system causes excessive weeds (unwanted plants including grass) to grow on this school track in California. This post comes with a warning: we are going to pick on some people. Some folks in California apparently hold themselves up[Read More…]
Environmental
USDA Gives Final Approval to GE Sugar Beets
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 26, 2012. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced this week that it is formally deregulating a line of sugar beets genetically engineered (GE) to resist applications of the herbicide glyphosate. Developed by chemical and seed giant Monsanto Co., the new[Read More…]
ESA’s Mars Express Supports Dramatic Landing on Mars
Mars Express supports MSL EU–(ENEWSPF)–25 July 2012. On 6 August, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory will make a spectacular landing to deliver the Curiosity rover to the Red Planet. ESA’s Mars Express will track the mission’s progress, recording crucial flight data right until ‘wheels down’ on the alien surface. NASA’s[Read More…]
Senate Committee Passes Safe Chemicals Act on Party Line Vote
NRDC: “Outside the Beltway, Toxic Chemicals Protection Is Not a Partisan Issue” WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 25, 2012 — The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today approved long-overdue legislation to reform the 35-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The following is a statement from Daniel Rosenberg, director of the toxic chemicals reform project[Read More…]
Pesticides in Air a Risk To Pregnant Women, Unborn Children
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 25, 2012. A Texas border study has found that air samples in the homes of pregnant Hispanic women contain multiple household pesticides that could harm fetuses and young children. The first study of its kind conducted by the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science[Read More…]
Court Orders State to Reconsider Protection for Rare Forest Mammal
California Fish and Game Commission ignored significant threats to fishers San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–July 24, 2012. A California Superior Court has ordered the California Fish and Game Commission to reconsider its decision to deny state Endangered Species Act protection to the Pacific fisher, a rare, forest-dwelling carnivore. The ruling comes[Read More…]
EPA Bails on Bees, Rejects Petition to Ban Pesticide
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–July 24, 2012. In a stunning evasion of its responsibilities, the Environmental Protection Agency has told a million people concerned with the fate of bees that they didn’t prove their case. While admitting that the pesticide known as clothianidin — a synthetic nicotine — is acutely lethal to bees, the[Read More…]
Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 24, 2012. For several days this month, Greenland’s surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its 2-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of[Read More…]
Obama Administration Releases Roadmap for Solar Energy Development on Public Lands
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 24, 2012. As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Department of the Interior, in partnership with the Department of Energy, will publish the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy development in six southwestern states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The final[Read More…]
BSEE Launches Deepwater Oil and Gas Containment Exercise
MWCC to Deploy Capping Stack in Gulf of Mexico WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 24, 2012. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) today initiated the first ever drill designed to deploy critical pieces of state-of-the-art well control equipment to the ultra-deep seabed of the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to exercise[Read More…]
