From Devils Mountain Skagit County, Washington – wormwould / CC BY-NC 2.0 Groups join lawsuit to preserve means to enact new rules aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions Olympia, WA —(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2016. National and regional clean air, clean energy, and conservation groups took legal steps last Friday to defend[Read More…]
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EPA Releases Final Report on Impacts from Hydraulic Fracturing Activities on Drinking Water
EPA’s report concludes that hydraulic fracturing activities can impact drinking water resources under some circumstances and identifies factors that influence these impacts WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2016. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing its scientific report on the impacts from hydraulic fracturing activities on drinking water resources, which provides states[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Pipeline Spill Further Proves it’s Always a Question of When a Pipeline Will Spill, Not If
North Dakota Pipeline Spills 176,000 Gallons of Crude Oil 150 Miles From Standing Rock Belfield, ND –(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2016. Late yesterday, approximately 150 miles from where the Standing Rock Sioux, more than 300 tribes, and thousands of Water Protectors peacefully assembled to protect the Tribe’s home, history, and heritage, spilled[Read More…]
Canada to Protect Declining Monarch Butterfly as Endangered Species
Photo by Collette Adkins, Center for Biological Diversity. Iconic Butterfly Has Declined by 80 Percent in Recent Decades WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2016. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada released a report yesterday recommending that the monarch butterfly be protected as an endangered species due to population decline[Read More…]
Interior Secretary Jewell, Governor Mead Protect Key Land in Grand Teton National Park
$46 Million Purchase of Antelope Flats will preserve lands and benefit Wyoming public schools WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–December 12, 2016. Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Wyoming Governor Matt Mead announced the purchase and permanent protection of a 640-acre parcel of Wyoming School Trust Land located within Grand Teton[Read More…]
Giant Mega-Berg May Be Calving Off of Larsen Ice Shelf Soon
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2016 By DarkSyde The Larsen A shelf disintegrated in 1995. Pictured above in early 2002, a massive piece of the Larsen B Ice Shelf the size of Rhode Island broke off and that shelf followed suit. Another mega-berg, almost twice as large as the one shown above,[Read More…]
National Audubon Society: Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Trump’s Pick for Interior, Tasked with Important Responsibility
Our public lands, wildlife and climate progress depend on a strong and steady Interior Department. Northern Harrier. Photo: Doug German/Audubon Photography Awards WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016. Today, President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is expected to announce Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) as his choice for Secretary of the Interior. The National Audubon[Read More…]
Interior Department and Tennessee Protect 75,000 Acres of Cumberland Plateau
Critical area for outdoor recreation, tourism and wildlife now off-limits to surface mining. Cerulean Warbler. Photo: Frode Jacobsen WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016. Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell declared 75,000 acres of eastern Tennessee mountain ridgelines as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations. The decision comes after Tennessee’s Department of[Read More…]
Western Environmental Law Center Statement on Nomination of Public Lands Privatization Advocate to lead U.S. Department of Interior
OREGON–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016. The nomination of Cathy McMorris Rodgers to lead the U.S. Department of Interior, tasked with “protecting America’s great outdoors and powering our future,” affirms the president elect’s intent to undermine public lands protections and hand over our public resources to dirty fossil fuel interests. This nomination serves[Read More…]
U.S. Raises Bar on Seafood Imports to Further Curb Illegal Fishing, Fraud
Program will trace specific fish and fish products from harvest to entry into U.S. commerce Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016. Yesterday, the U.S. established additional protections for the national economy, global food security, and the sustainability of our shared ocean resources. NOAA Fisheries will administer the Seafood Import Monitoring Program to[Read More…]
