Protecting salmon, and the jobs, people and wildlife that depend on it, are the leading causes for opposition LOS ANGELES–(ENEWSPF)–December 6, 2011. Residents in Alaska and the lower 48 states solidly oppose the Pebble Mine project proposed in Bristol Bay, Alaska and would like to see the project abandoned, according[Read More…]
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NASA’s Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star
MOFFET FIELD, Calif.–(ENEWSPF)–December 6, 2011. NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates are near-Earth-size[Read More…]
Being Told Painting is Fake Changes Brain’s Response to Art
United Kingdom–(ENEWSPF)–6 December 2011. Being told that a work of art is authentic or fake alters the brain’s response to the visual content of artwork, Oxford University academics have found. Fourteen participants were placed in a brain scanner and shown images of works by ‘Rembrandt’ – some were genuine, others[Read More…]
Where Have All the Quasars Gone?
Record-breaking black holes discovered, U of T astronomer on international team TORONTO, ON–(ENEWSPF)–December 5, 2011. An international team of astronomers has discovered two gigantic black holes with masses about 10 billion times the mass of our sun. These black holes have a mass more than 50 per cent greater[Read More…]
Sierra Club Rallies for Mercury Awareness Week
Dozens of events nationwide, new resources come just ahead of expected mercury protections from the Obama administration Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 5, 2011. The Sierra Club celebrates Mercury Awareness Week December 5-11 as President Obama prepares to issue the first nationwide protections against toxic mercury from coal plants later this month. Americans[Read More…]
MIT Report Shows With New Policies, U.S. Electric Grid Could Handle Expected Influx of Electric Cars and Wind and Solar Generation
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–December 5, 2011. Over the next two decades, the U.S. electric grid will face unprecedented technological challenges stemming from the growth of distributed and intermittent new energy sources such as solar and wind power, as well as an expected influx of electric and hybrid vehicles that require frequent recharging.[Read More…]
Six Largest Pesticide Manufacturers Stand Trial at International People’s Court
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 5, 2011. On December 3, the 27th anniversary of the Bhopal pesticide plant disaster in Bhopal, India, a trial began in an international people’s court in India involving the world’s six largest pesticide companies: Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, Dow and Dupont. These companies, collectively known as the “Big[Read More…]
UN Official Underlines Link Between Food Security and Climate Change
South Africa–(ENEWSPF)–2 December 2011. Playing a ball game at the IFAD booth at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa Ensuring global food security while striving to save the Planet from damage are the greatest challenges of this century, a senior United Nations official said today, stressing the[Read More…]
Energy Department Announces Technical Assistance Opportunity for Tribal Clean Energy Deployment
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 2, 2011. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched today the Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) initiative aimed at advancing clean energy generation in Indian Country and providing federally recognized Native American and Alaska Native governments with technical assistance to accelerate clean energy project deployment. This effort[Read More…]
Judge Orders State and Regional Air Agencies to Regulate Climate Change Pollution from Big Oil
Challenge to reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions from WA oil refineries advances Seattle, WA–(ENEWSPF)–December 2, 2011. A federal judge today ruled that the Washington Department of Ecology, Northwest Clean Air Agency, and Puget Sound Clean Air Agency have unlawfully failed to regulate climate change pollution from the five oil refineries operating[Read More…]
