PANAMA–(ENEWSPF)–July 3, 2012 A humpback whale and its calf in NOAA’s Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. Download here. (Credit: NOAA) NOAA, with staff from the State Department, U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, Department of the Interior and private citizens representing the United States at the International Whaling Commission (IWC), arrived[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 3, 2012.   This past Friday night a devastating storm swept through the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions, and as of Monday more than 2 million consumers were still without electricity. Today the Center for American Progress released “How to Keep the Lights On,” which outlines the smart investments[Read More…]

Required pollution control upgrades are modern standard in wide use by coal plants elsewhere around the country Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 3, 2012.  Three aging coal-fired power plants in Arizona will need to upgrade their smokestack pollution control equipment under a plan proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) late yesterday. Visibility[Read More…]

  Sea surface salinity EU–(ENEWSPF)–3 July 2012.  Over a dozen radio signals that have hindered data collection on ESA’s SMOS water mission have been switched off. The effort also benefits satellites such as NASA’s Aquarius mission, which measures ocean salinity at the same frequency.   We all know what happens when[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 3, 2012.  Several organizations, including Occupy Wall Street Maui and GMO-Free Maui, as well as over 100 concerned citizens, held a protest on Thursday, June 28 in front of the Monsanto Corporation headquarters in Kunia on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. According to the organizers, the protesters met[Read More…]

Fifth-grader Abby Goldberg launched a campaign on Change.org to stop big plastic from crushing her dream to ban plastic bags in her community; Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is considering whether to sign or veto a bill that could make it illegal for towns in Illinois to pass plastic bag bans;[Read More…]

The Flame Nebula sits on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation most easily visible in the northern hemisphere during winter evenings. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA-(ENEWSPF)- A new image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows the candle-like Flame nebula lighting up a cavern of dust.[Read More…]

3,000 megawatt Wyoming wind energy project and Rhode Island, Massachusetts Wind Energy Area take key steps forward  WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2012.  As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to developing the nation’s vast renewable energy resources, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that two major wind energy initiatives[Read More…]

Views of inundated areas of New Orleans following breaking of the levees surrounding the city as the result of storm surge from Hurricane Katrina (2005). Download here. (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2012.  NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey has announced a new website — www.stormsurge.noaa.gov — designed to provide vital information[Read More…]