Revised Plan expected to boost energy production while protecting sensitive areas, recreation opportunities, and wildlife habitat WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012. In support of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Bureau of Land Management today approved a natural gas project in Utah’s Uinta Basin[Read More…]
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National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska Comment Period Elicits 410,000 Calls for Balance of Conservation & Development
Audubon Leaders Comment on Outpouring of Support, Importance of America’s Arctic Tim Bowman usfws – Brant New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012. More than 410,000 Americans expressed support for permanent protection of critical wildlife areas within the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska during a public comment period that closes today. The National Audubon Society[Read More…]
NASA, FAA Advance National Goals in Commercial Human Space Transportation with Landmark Agreement
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—June 18, 2012. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and NASA have signed a historic agreement to coordinate standards for commercial space travel of government and non-government astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station (ISS). The two agencies will collaborate to expand efforts that provide a stable[Read More…]
Groups Challenge Decision to Ignore Risks to Wildlife, Environment in Gulf Oil Drilling Expansion
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012. Conservation groups today filed a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., that challenges the Obama administration’s plans to increase offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico without fully addressing the risks to wildlife and the environment. According to the suit, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management dismissed the[Read More…]
United States Regains Lead with World’s Fastest Supercomputer
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that a supercomputer called Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California, received the rank of the world’s most powerful computing system. The Top500 list, which annually ranks the world’s fastest supercomputers, released its list at the International Supercomputing[Read More…]
Video and Pics: Bike Ride Through Sauk Woods
Sauk Lake is visible through the trees. (Photo: ENEWSPF) Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The video below may be a bit shaky (YouTube says it has detected that and is going to apply a "fix"), but I wanted to capture just a minute of this afternoon’s bike ride, through Park Forest and[Read More…]
City of Rio and World Bank Launch Ground-Breaking Program for Low Carbon City Development
The Rio de Janeiro Low Carbon City Development Program is a business model for green, sustainable cities worldwide RIO DE JANEIRO–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012 – The City of Rio de Janeiro and the World Bank launched today during the Rio+20 Summit a ground-breaking, city-level program to put into action the city’s[Read More…]
Critical Cables, Wires at Nuclear Plants Are At Risk of Failure
NRDC Sees Need to Better Monitor Them, Asks NRC WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012 — Miles of vital electrical cables and wires at most of America’s 104 nuclear power plants are at risk of failure due to prolonged submersion in water or condensation, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. In a[Read More…]
Nuclear Watchdog Petitions Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Require Relicensing of Faulty San Onofre Reactors
Friends of the Earth alleges Edison misled NRC on replacement steam generators WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012. Friends of the Earth today filed a legal petition to require the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep the crippled reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station shut down until and unless their[Read More…]
ESA Tests Self-steering Rover in ‘Mars’ Desert
ESA rover in Atacama Desert EU–(ENEWSPF)–18 June 2012. ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its own course through Chile’s Mars-like Atacama Desert. The recent test of the[Read More…]
