Denver, CO–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2012. A federal court ruled today that New Mexico power company PNM must comply with a decision last fall requiring the utility to install pollution controls to significantly cut the 16,000 tons a year of harmful haze, ozone, and fine particle-producing nitrogen pollution that pours from the[Read More…]
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Judge Dismisses Case Against Monsanto, Organic Farmers To Appeal
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2012. A U.S. District Court Judge on February 24 dismissed the case of Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association et al v. Monsanto and organic farmers, seed growers, and agricultural organizations vowed to fight on. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit to shield farmers from being sued for[Read More…]
Court Orders New Study of Boat Buoys on Lake Tahoe
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency must examine impact of all illegal buoys already in use San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2012. On February 29th, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) acted illegally in not analyzing the boat pollution impacts for[Read More…]
EPA Proposes to Exempt Heavily Polluting Power Plants from the Best Pollution Controls Across the Eastern Half of the Country
Conservation groups ask EPA to abandon proposal Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2012. Conservation groups filed comments this week opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal to exempt power plants from rules that improve air quality in national parks and wilderness areas and protect public health from the damaging effects of haze[Read More…]
Sierra Club Accepting Applications for The Best Internship on Earth
An exceptional opportunity blending job experience with adventure, young adults vie to participate in meaningful outdoor experiences with Sierra Club’s youth outings programs around the country SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2012. Internships and real-world experience continue to be a valued component in the competitive job market. For the third year, the Sierra[Read More…]
Environmental Groups Continue Fight against LNG Fracking
Asks Federal Environmental Agencies to Protest Export Facilities Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2012. Today multiple environmental organizations called on the President’s chief environmental advisor asking for a full environmental analysis of plans to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). The letter to the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency[Read More…]
Proposed Mars Mission Has New Name
Artist rendition of the proposed InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Lander. InSight is based on the proven Phoenix Mars spacecraft and lander design with state-of-the-art avionics from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory missions. Image credit: JPL/NASA PASADENA, CA-(ENEWSPF)- A proposed[Read More…]
Coal Clunkers Closing: Public Pressure Finally Shutters Chicago’s Notorious Fisk and Crawford Plants
Coalition Succeeds in Ending Long Standing Health and Climate Threat CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2012. A deal this morning to close the Fisk and Crawford Generating Stations in Chicago brings a final chapter to one of the nation’s most noted environmental justice stories. The two nearly century-old coal plants have been magnets[Read More…]
Senator Collins Amendment to Transportation Bill Puts 8,100 Lives at Risk
Legislative rider would kill limits on toxic pollution from industrial power plants Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2012. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has introduced a proposed rider to the 2012 federal transportation bill that would effectively kill off long-overdue limits on toxic pollution from Industrial Power Plants (boiler MACT). The Environmental Protection[Read More…]
EPA’s Refusal To Clean Up Smog Pollution Challenged
Central California groups back in court seeking new ozone plan for San Joaquin Valley San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–February 28, 2012. In the ongoing campaign to clean up the air in California’s San Joaquin Valley, health and environmental advocates have returned to federal court to seek enforcement of the Clean Air Act. This[Read More…]
