Plan offers 70 percent of economically recoverable resources while ensuring protection of critical areas, including the Arctic WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2016. After considering more than 3.3 million public comments and holding 36 public meetings, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail[Read More…]
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Study Finds Limited Sign of Soil Adaptation to Climate Warming
Measuring carbon flux from soil at Toolik Field Station in Arctic Alaska. Photo by: Jim Tang CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2016 By Diana Kenney While scientists and policy experts debate the impacts of global warming, the Earth’s soil is releasing roughly nine times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than all human[Read More…]
Sierra Club Statement On The Conclusion Of COP22
MARRAKECH, MOROCCO –(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2016. Today, the COP22 climate negotiations concluded in Marrakech, Morocco. This year’s climate negotiations followed a year of historic progress: more than 175 nations signing the Paris Agreement on Earth Day 2016, the adoption of the Kigali Amendment to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, the Paris Agreement’s entry[Read More…]
Sierra Club: ‘Any Senator Who Believes in Justice Shouldn’t Put Jeff Sessions in Charge of Ensuring It”
Nation’s largest environmental organization asks Senate to stand up for Americans and oppose designation WASHINGTON D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2016. This week, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he plans to appoint Senator Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General. In response, Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, released the following statement:[Read More…]
Weakening Polar Vortex May Yield Longer, Harsher Winters In North America
By Michael Kuhne, Staff Writer for AccuWeather.com AccuWeather-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather reports longer, harsher winters may be in store for the portions of North America as the polar vortex continues to weaken and shifts, according to a new study. The polar vortex is a large pocket of frigid air that hovers above the polar[Read More…]
Obama Administration Announces New Actions to Bring Clean Energy Savings to All Americans
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2016. Through President Obama’s Clean Energy Savings for All Initiative and beyond, we are making progress opening up opportunities for all American’s to go solar and retrofit their homes and businesses to be more energy efficient. Since President Obama took office, the amount of electricity we generate from the sun[Read More…]
Roosevelt University Students Nearing Graduation Salute EAL for Help in Making it to Finish Line
Josh Moller and Abril de la Paz CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–November 17, 2016. Every little bit of help counts when it comes to paying for a college education as Roosevelt University students Josh Moller and Abril de la Paz attested to recently while marking a milestone with Wheaton, Ill.-based EALgreen. An innovator in[Read More…]
Blizzard Conditions To Evolve Over Northern Plains Late This Week
By Faith Eherts, Meteorologist for AccuWeather.com AccuWeather-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather reports a strengthening storm will bring the first significant snowfall of the season to the northern Plains with localized blizzard conditions through Friday. The storm dropped accumulating snowfall across interior portions of the West on Wednesday and Wednesday night. Strong winds to whip central US As the storm emerges from[Read More…]
Terry Tempest Williams & Brooke Williams Appeal to Interior Board of Land Appeals Over Oil and Gas Lease Purchase
Famed author and husband punished for common industry practice Castle Valley, Utah –(ENEWSPF)–November 17, 2016. Today, on behalf of Terry Tempest Williams and Brooke Williams, the Western Environmental Law Center administratively challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) rejection of the Tempest Exploration Company’s October 2016 bids on oil[Read More…]
Arctic Sea Ice Collapse Has Destabilized the Stratospheric & Lower Atmospheric Circulations
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 16, 2016 By FishOutofWater Temperatures over the Arctic ocean are as much as 50 degrees F (30 Celsius) above normal. It’s above freezing in places that are normally 20 below zero in degrees F. Arctic sea ice collapse on the Atlantic side has allowed warm storms to penetrate[Read More…]
