Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2011. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a petition to ban the endocrine (hormone) disrupting herbicide atrazine on September 14, 2011, opening a 60-day comment period for the public to weigh-in on the issue that ends Friday. Tell EPA that because atrazine poses unacceptable risks to humans[Read More…]
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Battered Tharsis Tholus Volcano on Mars
Battered volcano Tharsis Tholus EU–(ENEWSPF)–8 November 2011. The latest image released from Mars Express reveals a large extinct volcano that has been battered and deformed over the aeons. By Earthly standards, Tharsis Tholus is a giant, towering 8 km above the surrounding terrain, with a base stretching over 155 x 125[Read More…]
Investigation Launched into State Department’s Keystone XL Review
Friends of the Earth calls for immediate suspension of pipeline permitting process WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2011. Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica had the following response to news that the Inspector General’s office at the State Department has launched an investigation into the review of the proposed Keystone XL[Read More…]
Engineers Solve Energy Puzzle
TORONTO, ON–(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2011. University of Toronto materials science and engineering (MSE) researchers have demonstrated for the first time the key mechanism behind how energy levels align in a critical group of advanced materials. This discovery is a significant breakthrough in the development of sustainable technologies such as dye-sensitized solar[Read More…]
Entirely Surrounded: Protesters Encircle White House, Close in on Tar Sands Industry
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2011, 2:33 am “We don’t know how many people it takes to encircle the White House, but we’re about to find out,” Bill McKibben told a crowd of over 12,000 gathered in Lafayette Square on Sunday afternoon. Such a prospect would have been hard to imagine eleven[Read More…]
At White House Protest, NRDC Leader Tells Obama to Reject Keystone XL
NRDC’s Adams: “Instead of building a pipeline to the past … it’s time to draw the line on tar sands.” WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2011. In addressing thousands of citizens participating at a massive demonstration at the White House on Sunday, NRDC Founding Director John Adams called on President Obama to protect[Read More…]
Illinois Hunters Asked to Report Sightings of Feral Swine
Population threatens wildlife and domestic livestock, damage to land, water and habitat SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–November 4, 2011. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the Illinois Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are enlisting the help of Illinois hunters in efforts to track feral swine and assist in slowing the[Read More…]
Legislation Introduced in Congress to Support Local and Organic Food
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 4, 2011. On Tuesday, November 1, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Representative Chellie Pingree of Maine along with 35 original co-sponsors, introduced the Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act (LFFJA) – S. 1773 and H.R. 3286 – a comprehensive bill intended for inclusion in the 2012 Farm[Read More…]
Indiana Waste Treatment Company, Its Owner and a Manager Charged with Conspiracy and Violating the Clean Water Act
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—November 4, 2011. Tierra Environmental and Industrial Services, Inc., a centralized waste treatment facility in East Chicago, Ind., its owner and a manager were charged yesterday with conspiracy and felony violations of the Clean Water Act in a seven-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury, the Department of Justice[Read More…]
White House to be Encircled by Tar Sands Activists on Sunday
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 4, 2011, 2:08 am A lot has happened since 65 people (including myself) were arrested in front of the White House on August 20th to protest a planned 1,400-mile pipeline carrying tar sands oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. For starters, over a thousand more people[Read More…]
