Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2011.  NOAA is launching a comprehensive initiative to build a “Weather-ready” nation to make America safer by saving more lives and protecting livelihoods as communities across the country become increasingly vulnerable to severe weather events, such as tornado outbreaks, intense heat waves, flooding, active hurricane seasons, and[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2011.  Epps Shipping Company, a Liberian corporation doing business out of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was sentenced in federal court for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) and making false statements to U.S. Coast Guard inspectors, announced Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno and United States[Read More…]

Paris, France–(ENEWSPF)–18 August 2011 Use red/blue stereo glasses to watch Half a century after humankind entered outer space, an ESA-developed camera produced live-streaming 3D images for the first time in the history of space travel – showing the International Space Station like never before.   On 6 August, NASA astronaut[Read More…]

MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2011.  The approval of genetically modified (GMO) grass seed, or more correctly stated “the news of the approval,” is apparently having the muted impact it intended. Announced by the United States Department Agriculture back on the afternoon of July 1 — when most people were shopping for beer[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2011.  A new report by the Australian government finds that agricultural pesticides are severely damaging the Great Barrier Reef; despite this fact, sugarcane growers have been allowed a six week extension to continue to use the weed killer diuron, which was intially set to be suspended for[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2011.  Representatives Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, and Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.), the Ranking Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water and Power, sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service[Read More…]

CANADA–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2011.  British Columbia Premier Christy Clark and Opposition Leader Adrian Dix are to be commended for supporting a province-wide ban on the sale and use of lawn and garden pesticides. Not only will this legislation be hugely popular, it will also have a very positive effect on the health[Read More…]

Honshu, Japan-(ENEWSPF)- The seabed has not settled off the coast of Honshu, Japan. Yet another substantial earthquake has struck, this one registring 6.2 magnitude on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 11:44:07 UTC, 06:44:07 AM(CDT) – Central Daylight (Chicago), at a depth of 37 km (23.0 miles). The epicenter was 304[Read More…]

Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2011.  Today, the Appalachian Mountain Advocates  (formerly the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment), Earthjustice and the Sierra Club released a poll that surveyed voters in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee to measure public opinions on the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining and clean[Read More…]

MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2011. When James Steidle isn’t photographing the landscapes around his British Columbia home, or creating some practical piece of wood art, he’s applying his creativity toward another, passionate cause. Founder of the website, Stop The Spray, B.C., Steidle has made it his personal mission to inform people of[Read More…]