Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 28, 2011. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released Pesticide Chemical Search, a new database that allows users to easily access information related to pesticide active ingredients, including regulatory and scientific information. Pesticide Chemical Search is designed to consolidate information from the Office of Pesticide Program’s website[Read More…]
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NASA Launches Most Capable and Robust Rover to Mars
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, sealed inside its payload fairing atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, clears the tower at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (Photo credit: NASA/Bill White) CAPE CANAVERAL, FL-(ENEWSPF)- NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the[Read More…]
UN Report Suggests Environmental Measures That Could Save Millions of Lives
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–25 November 2011. Implementing cost-effective measures would help reduce black carbon, methane and ozone emissions More than two million lives can be saved each year by implementing the cost-effective measures presented in a United Nations report released today, which would help reduce black carbon, methane and ozone emissions. The[Read More…]
California Town Bans Fake Lawns
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–November 25, 2011. One of the few issues I can agree on with folks on both sides of the organic vs. synthetic chemical lawn debate is this: Artificial grass has no place in our society. Giant petroleum-based blankets that will never biodegrade in anyone’s lifetime, artificial lawns emit all sorts[Read More…]
Court Upholds Endangered Status for Grizzlies
Threats to key food source–the whitebark pine–central to continued protections LIVINGSTON, MONTANA–November 22, 2011. Grizzly bears living in the Yellowstone region won a reprieve today from efforts to remove federal endangered species protections from the population. A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously agreed that one of the grizzly’s[Read More…]
USW NEW VIDEO: Why the Oil Industry is Still Out of Control
Pittsburgh, PA–(ENEWSPF)–November 22, 2011. From the United Steel Workers (USW): check out this new video that shows why we have to fight for our oil workers in an industry that’s fueled by money over all else: Source: usw.org
NASA’s Hubble Finds Stellar Life and Death in a Globular Cluster
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in the outer halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way that can be seen from the southern hemisphere. Aging bright stars[Read More…]
Canadian Judge Orders Review of Roundup’s Impact on Frogs
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–Noember 22, 2011. Citing the precautionary principle invoked in the historic Supreme Court Hudson v. Spraytech and ChemLawn decision in 2001 — profiled in the documentary film, A Chemical Reaction — a Canadian federal justice has ordered a full review of the impact of the herbicide Roundup on frogs and[Read More…]
Groups Ask EPA to Strengthen Overdue Pesticide Protections for Farmworkers
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 22, 2011. Several farmworker groups filed a petition last week with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging the agency to implement stronger protections for farmworkers, with particular regard to health effects of exposure to toxic pesticides on the job. The petition seeks to eliminate the existing dual[Read More…]
Recent Reports Help Consumers Reduce Pesticide Exposure and Improve Nutrition
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2011. Two recent reports from the Organic Center can help consumers identify food choices that will reduce their intake of pesticides while enhancing the overall nutritional content of their diets. The reports, entitled Dietary Risk Index and Transforming Jane Doe’s Diet are based upon state-of-the-art pesticide residue[Read More…]
