Study provides mapping, analysis for renewable energy planning, offshore habitat protection Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2012 The report, A Biogeographic Assessment of Seabirds, Deep Sea Corals and Ocean Habitats of the New York Bight is available online.Download here (Credit: NOAA) A newly released NOAA study will help New York state officials[Read More…]
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MIT Research: Study Finds Room to Store CO2 Underground
New MIT analysis shows there’s enough room to safely store at least a century’s worth of U.S. fossil fuel emissions. CAMBRIDGE, MA–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2012. A new study by researchers at MIT shows that there is enough capacity in deep saline aquifers in the United States to store at least a[Read More…]
Consumers Pressure Walmart to Reject GE Sweet Corn
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2012. Several environmental groups have collected nearly half a million petition signatures as part of a campaign to pressure Walmart to not stock a variety of genetically engineered (GE) sweet corn developed by St. Louis-based chemical giant Monsanto Company. The groups, including the Center for Food Safety,[Read More…]
Rethinking the Traditional American Lawn, Part I
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2012 High Country Gardens specializes in drought-tolerant plants. AS A PART OF OUR ongoing campaign to reduce the impact of the American lawn, we launched guest blog series with our sponsoring partners at High Country Gardens in New Mexico. Rethinking the Traditional American Lawn is a four-part series[Read More…]
Environmental and Public Health Groups Intervene in Industry Attacks on Life-saving Mercury Protections
Polluters attempting to block limits on mercury, acid gases and other hazardous air toxics Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2012. Sixteen national and state environmental, clean air and public health groups intervened last week to defend the Environmental Protection Agency against industry lawsuits aimed at blocking landmark protections to clean up toxic mercury[Read More…]
Overuse of Genetically Engineered Bt Corn Tied to Accelerated Resistance
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2012. A group of 22 prominent entomologists has submitted formal comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) casting doubt on the future viability of certain varieties of genetically engineered (GE) corn. The entomologists, including researchers from land grant institutions in the Corn Belt and the U.S.[Read More…]
National Poison Prevention Week: 8 Tips to Stay Safe on the Lawn
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2012. Avoidance of pesticides is the surest way to keep children safe. In recognition of National Poison Prevention Week beginning Sunday, March 18, the SafeLawns Foundation is joining the Environmental Protection Agency and numerous other agencies in urging parents to take extra steps around their homes to reduce[Read More…]
Storms From the Sun
FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–Space weather starts at the sun. It begins with an eruption such as a huge burst of light and radiation called a solar flare or a gigantic cloud of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME). But the effects of those eruptions happen at Earth, or at least near-Earth[Read More…]
Proposed Kemper Coal Plant Permit Remanded
Mississippi Supreme Court Sides with Sierra Club in Decision Issued Yesterday Jackson, MS–(ENEWSPF)–March 16, 2012. The Mississippi Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling yesterday that deals a major blow to the dirty, expensive, and unnecessary proposed Kemper coal plant project. Mississippi Power, the major owner and developer of the proposed[Read More…]
The Augusta Syndrome: 45 Years Later, Is Golf the Environment’s Worst Nightmare?
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–March 16, 2012. This GoogleMaps image depicts how the Augusta National Country Club really appears when the cameras are not on. Few industries around the world can point to a single weekend as the date of their origin. Sure, lawn care has been around ever since kings ordered peasants to[Read More…]
