CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2012. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu joined Mayor Rahm Emanuel at an event in Chicago today to announce that the city is joining the Obama Administration’s Better Buildings Challenge, part of the initiative launched last year by President Obama to catalyze investment in commercial and industrial building energy[Read More…]
Environmental
Improved Drought Outlook Brings Slugs Galore
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2012. As so often happens in gardening, and life, good news begets bad news. A year ago at this time parts of the nation, especially our great friends in Houston, were mired in an historic drought . . . . . . and while some folks in the[Read More…]
Superbug Suit: Court Slams FDA on Antibiotics in Animal Feed…Again
Court forces FDA to confront science, paves way for meaningful agency action NEW YORK, N.Y.–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2012. Last night, for a second time in three months, a federal court ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action to protect public health from the overuse of antibiotics in animal feed[Read More…]
World Bank Tribunal Allows Outrageous Pac Rim Case to Drag On
El Salvador’s environment and democracy remain under threat as tribunal takes jurisdiction under Salvadoran law rather than CAFTA WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2012. On Friday, June 1, a World Bank tribunal allowed an international legal attack on El Salvador’s environment and democracy to advance, accepting jurisdiction to rule on a lawsuit[Read More…]
Smooth Moves: How Space Animates Hollywood
Space spin-off used for realistic animations in movies and games EU–(ENEWSPF)–5 June 2012. If you’ve been to see Wrath of the Titans, then you’ve watched it in action. A computer programmer is using software he developed to control spacecraft to help animators make more realistic computer games and movies. Originally[Read More…]
Mothball Pesticide Linked to Chromosomal Aberrations in Children
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2012. A new study finds that children exposed to high levels of naphthalene, a common air pollutant and the active ingredient in mothballs, are at increased risk for chromosomal aberrations (CA’s) that have been associated with increased cancer risk in adults. These include chromosomal translocations, a potentially[Read More…]
Smithsonian: When Continental Drift Was Considered Pseudoscience
From Smithsonian.com: In a courtroom in Italy, six seismologists and a civil servant are facing charges of manslaughter after failing to predict a 2009 earthquake that killed 308 people in the Apennine Mountain city of L’Aquila. The charge is remarkable partly because it assumes that scientists can now see not merely beneath[Read More…]
Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2012. Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour. New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that the black hole collided and merged with another black hole and received[Read More…]
Warming Climate Sees Tundra Turn to Forest
UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–4 June 2012. In just a few decades shrubs in the Arctic tundra have turned into trees as a result of the warming Arctic climate, creating patches of forest which, if replicated across the tundra, would significantly accelerate global warming. Scientists from Finland and Oxford University investigated an area[Read More…]
Groups Seek Comprehensive and Transparent Review of Environmental Risks Presented by ‘Frankenfish’
Public remains in the dark another year as the federal government considers approving genetically engineered salmon Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2012. Earthjustice sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday calling on the agency to provide a final substantive response to a citizen petition filed one year[Read More…]
