WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 11, 2011.  Across the country, household leaks waste more than 1 trillion gallons of water per year – enough to supply the water needs of Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles combined. Easily corrected household leaks can increase homeowners’ water bills by 12 percent. To help consumers find and repair[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–10 March 2011 – The potentially disastrous decline in bees, a vital pollinating element in food production for the growing global population, is likely to continue unless humans profoundly change their ways, from the use of insecticides to air pollution, according to a United Nations report released today. “The[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2011.   The oil slick, seen from the window of the Lockheed WP-3D Orion aircraft. Best known as one of NOAA’s “hurricane hunters,” the plane was outfitted with chemistry instruments for a mission in California during the spring of 2010. NOAA diverted it to the Gulf for[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2011.  The following remarks are attributed to Lawrence J. Gumbiner, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. The UN Conference on Sustainable Development represents an important opportunity for the international community to advance sustainable and inclusive economic development. The green economy offers a path to[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2011.  The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) and its Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship today announced the opening of its $12 million i6 Green Challenge in partnership with the U.S. departments of Agriculture and Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, and Commerce’s[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2011.  U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the launch of two new fellowship programs designed to attract the country’s best and brightest scientific minds to work on advanced clean energy technologies.  The two fellowship programs – the Postdoctoral Fellowships Program and the SunShot Initiative[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2011.  U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that the Department of Energy finalized a nearly $50 million loan to The Vehicle Production Group LLC.  The loan will support the development of the six-passenger MV-1, a purpose-built wheelchair accessible vehicle that will run on compressed natural gas. [Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 9, 2011.  The deadly Russian heat wave of 2010 was due to a natural atmospheric phenomenon often associated with weather extremes, according to a new NOAA study. And while the scientists could not attribute the intensity of this particular heat wave to climate change, they found that extreme[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 9, 2011.  As spring approaches, millions of birds will wing their way back to North America.  Red knots near Tierra del Fuego will make a remarkable journey to the arctic tundra.   Swainson’s hawks leave their winter homes in Brazil and Argentina, flying north for up to 14,000 miles.[Read More…]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.–(ENEWSPF)–March 9, 2011.  Space shuttle Discovery and its six-astronaut crew ended a 13-day journey of more than five million miles and concluded the spacecraft’s illustrious 27-year career with an 11:57 a.m. EST landing Wednesday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. STS-133 was the last mission for the[Read More…]