Fourteen companies qualified to bid in 6th competitive lease sale WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016. As part of President Obama’s comprehensive Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director[Read More…]
Environmental
Court Allows Continued Intensive, Unstudied Fracking in Greater Chaco
Northwest New Mexico oil drilling will continue despite risks to communities, cultural resources and environment Santa Fe –(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016. Hopes for a respite from a fracking boom plaguing Navajo and public lands in New Mexico’s Greater Chaco area were thwarted Thursday when the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld[Read More…]
Court Declares Fish and Wildlife Service Failed to Protect Rare Colorado, Utah Wildflowers Threatened by Oil Shale Mining
Finds “Conservation Agreement” inadequate to address threats from Uinta Basin Energy Development A White River beardtongue. Graham’s and White River beardtongues are found only in oil shale outcroppings in northeastern Utah’s Uinta Basin and northwestern Colorado’s Piceance Basin. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Photo Denver, CO —(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2016. A[Read More…]
Report: Most Top Grocery Chains Fail On Pollinator Protection
Poll shows 80 percent of Americans support eliminating bee-killing pesticides from agriculture WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016. A new report and scorecard grades 20 of the largest food retailers in the U.S on their policies and practices regarding pollinator protection, organic offerings and pesticide reduction. Of the top food retailers,[Read More…]
Soils Hike at Thorn Creek Woods on October 29
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 27, 2016. Is all soil created equal? Come and see, smell, hear and feel for the parts of soil. Learn how soil supports every form of life in the woods. On the hike with naturalist April Richards, you will observe and touch real samples of Thorn Creek[Read More…]
Earth Underfoot: An Afternoon with Friends of Thorn Creek on November 6
Thorn Creek Woods Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 27, 2016. An exciting project of the Illinois State Geological Survey is mapping deposits both at the land surface and in the subsurface throughout Will County. Join other nature lovers for the Friends of Thorn Creek Woods annual gathering, pot luck, a fall raffle[Read More…]
Food and Energy Demand Drives 58 Percent Decline in Global Wildlife Populations — New WWF Report
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016. Global populations of vertebrates — mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish — have declined by 58 percent between 1970 and 2012, states a new report from World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Animals living in the world’s lakes, rivers, and freshwater systems have experienced the most dramatic population[Read More…]
‘The Largest Iceberg in Decades Broke Free From a North American Glacier – And No One Noticed’ (Videos)
BRITISH COLUMBIA–(ENEWSPF)–October 25, 2016 By Pakalolo Acquired August 27, 2016 Porcupine Glacier is a 12 and a half mile long outlet glacier of an icefield in the Hoodoo Mountains in northern British Columbia. During late August of 2016 it calved a large iceberg but it was just recently discovered via satellite[Read More…]
Interior Secretary Jewell Announces Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge
Nation’s Newest Wildlife Refuge Represents Coordinated Response to Conserving Key Shrubland Habitat in the Northeast WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–October 25, 2016. Following an extensive public process, and with overwhelming public support, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized the creation of Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge, dedicated to conserving and managing shrubland[Read More…]
NOAA Awards $10.44 Million in Coastal Science Research Funding
Multi-year awards to focus on sea level rise, hypoxia and harmful algal blooms Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 25, 2016 NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science will award $10.44 million over the next five years for 10 projects to address sea level rise, hypoxia and harmful algal blooms (HABs). Among the projects[Read More…]
