Settlement with Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago to reduce pollution from stormwater runoff and protect public health CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–Dec. 14, 2011. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the State of Illinois announced a Clean Water Act (CWA) settlement with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation[Read More…]
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NASA Mars-Bound Rover Begins Research in Space
WASHINGTON-(ENEWSPF)- NASA’s car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. The research will aid in planning for future human missions to the Red Planet. Curiosity launched on Nov. 26 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). The rover carries[Read More…]
Scientists Publish New Findings about the ‘Supernova of a Generation’
Santa Barbara, CA-(ENEWSPF)- An international team of scientists, including astrophysicists from UC Santa Barbara, has discovered that a supernova that exploded in August –– dubbed the supernova of a generation –– was a "white dwarf" star, and that its companion star could not have been a "red giant," as previously[Read More…]
Obama Administration Holds Major Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale
Latest Step by Administration to Deliver on Goals for Expanded, Responsible Production Announced by President Obama WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. Tomorrow, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will travel to New Orleans to hold a major oil and gas lease sale covering more than 21 million acres in the Gulf[Read More…]
Canada’s Withdrawal From Kyoto Protocol Regrettable – UN Climate Official
South Africa–(ENEWSPF)–13 December 2011. Canada’s decision to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol is surprising and regrettable, the United Nations climate change chief Christiana Figueres said today, calling on developed countries to meet the commitments they recently made at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. “I regret that Canada has[Read More…]
New Lease Sale Ignores BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Groups challenge Lease Sale 218 citing no lessons learned from Gulf disaster ATLANTA, GA–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. The federal government ignored the impact of BP’s 200 million gallon oil spill in its assessment of risks and precautions for the Gulf of Mexico before the first new lease sale since the Deepwater[Read More…]
Trillion-frame-per-second Video
By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. That’s fast enough[Read More…]
Energy Department Awards More Than $7 Million for Innovative Hydrogen Storage Technologies in Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. The U.S. Department of Energy yesterday announced more than $7 million to fund four projects in California, Washington and Oregon to advance hydrogen storage technologies to be used in fuel cell electric vehicles. The 3-year projects will help lower the costs and increase the performance of[Read More…]
Lake Tahoe Pesticide “Ban” Overturned by Local Water Control Board
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. Despite opposition from Lake Tahoe water providers and environmental groups, the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (LRWQCB) voted last week to allow the use of pesticides to control invasive species like Asian clams and the underwater plants Eurasian watermilfoil and curly leaf pondweed. For years,[Read More…]
Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food
The large scale cosmological mass distribution in the simulation volume of the MassiveBlack. The projected gas density over the whole volume (‘unwrapped’ into 2D) is shown in the large scale (background) image. The two images on top show two zoom-in of increasing factor of 10, of the regions where the[Read More…]
