Pasadena, CA–(ENEWSPF)- A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant cluster of red galaxies ever observed using FourStar, a new and powerful near-infrared camera on the 6.5m Magellan Baade Telescope. The galaxy cluster is located 10.5 billion light years away in the direction of the constellation Leo. It is[Read More…]
Environmental
World Meets Goal of Boosting Access to Clean Water but Lags on Better Sanitation – UN
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–6 March 2012. The goal of reducing by half the number of people without access to safe drinking water has been achieved, well ahead of the 2015 deadline for reaching the globally agreed development targets aimed at ridding the world of extreme poverty, hunger and preventable diseases, the United[Read More…]
Interior Secretary Salazar Designates Thirteen New National Historic Landmarks
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2012. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the designation of 13 new National Historic Landmarks in nine different states, including a site associated with the famed Apache scouts, the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the world, and an early 18th-century parish church.[Read More…]
New Ad: What if Polluter Lobbyists in Washington Were Replace With Asthmatic Children?
Seven-Figure Ad Buy Supports EPA and Obama Clean Air Protections against Industrial Carbon Pollution WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2012. If every polluter’s lobbyist around Congress was suddenly replaced by severely asthmatic children, then maybe Congress wouldn’t always be trying to gut clean air standards. On Wednesday, the Sierra Club and the[Read More…]
Fight is on to Save Connecticut’s Landmark Pesticide Bill
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2012. A group of community and health advocates and legislators will gather this Thursday, March 8, at 1 p.m. to draw attention to a bill in the state legislature that would revoke Connecticut’s 2005 law that restricts the applications of pesticides on school grounds. “Connecticut’s landmark law banning[Read More…]
Preventing Contamination in Recycling
New study examines ways to prevent accumulation of impurities in recycling aluminum. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2012. Aluminum has long been the poster child of recycling. About half of all aluminum used in the United States is now recycled, and this recycling has clear and dramatic benefits: Pound for pound, it[Read More…]
EPA Underestimated Number of Polluted Florida Streams, Lakes, Rivers and Springs in Florida
Upgrading outdated sewage systems is critical; likely to cost Floridians a few pennies a day Tallahassee, FL–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2012. Floridians may end up paying a few more pennies a day in the coming years to upgrade outdated sewer systems that are contaminating public water supplies, the National Academy of Sciences[Read More…]
EPA Reverses Decision to Allow Four New Feedstocks into the Renewable Fuel Standard in Response to Environmental Objections
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2012. The Environmental Protection Agency today withdrew a previous direct and final rule to amend the Renewable Fuel Standard after environmental groups, including Friends of the Earth, submitted comments about the agency’s failure to address land use change and greenhouse gas and invasive species impacts in its[Read More…]
Prenatal Chemical Exposures Linked to ADHD in Boys
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2012. New research conducted in New Bedford, Massachusetts suggests that organochlorine chemicals, which were first linked to learning problems in children more than two decades ago, may play a role in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), especially in boys. Previous research has reported associations between organochlorines and ADHD-related[Read More…]
Secretary Chu Announces Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia to Join National Clean Fleets Partnership
INDIANAPOLIS, IN–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2012. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that four new corporate partners – Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia – are joining the Energy Department’s National Clean Fleets Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that assists the nation’s largest fleet operators in reducing the[Read More…]
