Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2012. On March 21, Beyond Pesticides joined beekeepers and environmental groups, Center for Food Safety and Pesticide Action Network North America in filing an emergency legal petition that calls on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to suspend registration of Bayer’s controversial bee-killing pesticide, clothianidin. Because Congress has[Read More…]

UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–26 Marh 2012.  A project running almost 10,000 climate simulations on volunteers’ home computers has found that a global warming of 3 degrees Celsius by 2050 is ‘equally plausible’ as a rise of 1.4 degrees. The study, the first to run so many simulations using a complex atmosphere-ocean climate[Read More…]

Asking court to force Wyoming to reveal information about toxins pumped into ground Casper, WY–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2012.  In an effort to help protect the public from exposure to toxic chemicals, the Powder River Basin Resource Council, Wyoming Outdoor Council, Earthworks and OMB Watch are asking a court to require the[Read More…]

Artemis satellite artist’s view EU–(ENEWSPF)–26 March 2012.  ESA’s Artemis communications satellite is in action again to ensure the safe arrival of Europe’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle at the International Space Station with vital supplies.  Containing fresh supplies of fuel, water, oxygen, air, food, clothing, experiments and spare parts, ATV Edoardo[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2012.  Organic and sustainable agriculture advocates achieved a milestone victory on March 23 when a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must act promptly to determine whether to ban subtherapeutic uses of antibiotics in livestock. The ruling is the latest step in[Read More…]

SEOUL–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2012.  Gathered in Seoul on the occasion of the second Nuclear Security Summit, leaders of Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the United States reaffirm their commitment to minimize the use of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) for civilian purposes, where technically and economically feasible, in order to advance the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2012.  Between the 1960s and mid-1980s, Italy had an ambitious nuclear power research program which included heavy water, boiling water, light water, and fast reactors.  In 1979, Italy signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) which reaffirmed its commitment to be nuclear weapons free. In 1987, through a referendum,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2012.  At the March 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, the Governments of Mexico, the United States, and Canada announced the completion of an important joint nuclear security project to convert the fuel in Mexico’s research reactor from highly enriched uranium (HEU) to low enriched[Read More…]

MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2012.   Fritz Haber, one of the two men who made cheap synthetic chemical lawn fertilizer possible. IF YOU’RE LIKE MILLIONS OF NORTH AMERICANS this weekend, you might have mowed your lawn for the first time. It probably felt good and smelled good, too, with all that freshly[Read More…]

MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2012 This dandelion, growing in a sidewalk, was spotted this morning. I spotted my first dandelion today. Warmed by the surrounding pavement, it was popping up through a corner crack in a sidewalk. Every year when the first dandelion sighting happens, usually later than this year, I quietly[Read More…]