Ending New Federal Fossil Fuel Leasing Is Common Sense, Science-based and Would Align U.S. Energy Policy With Its Climate Goals WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–July 15, 2016. Climate, community and environmental-justice groups issued a statement today responding to several inaccurate comments by Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Director of the White House Office of[Read More…]
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With the Rise of Distributed Solar, Net Energy Metering is Causing Utilities, Policymakers, and Consumers to Find a New Way Forward on Rates
Electricians install solar panels on a roof in Goodyear, Arizona, on July 28, 2015. Source: AP/Matt York Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–July 15, 2016. With the falling cost of consumer renewable energy sources such as distributed solar, more and more Americans are generating their own electricity and selling it back to[Read More…]
Departments of Interior, Agriculture & Defense Team Up To Conserve Landscapes and Wildlife, Bolster Rural Economies, and Ensure Military Readiness
A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicoper lands at Lathan Drop Zone at Fort Bragg, N.C. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Freeman. WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–July 12, 2016. The Departments of Interior, Agriculture and Defense joined with state and federal partners today to announce the designation of three new Sentinel[Read More…]
Building History: Architecture in National Parks
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 11, 2016. For most people, national parks bring to mind gorgeous landscapes of mountains, coastlines, deserts and forests teeming with wildlife. Yet many of the 412 locations in the National Park System include historic buildings that tell stories of the people who built them and how they were[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Leaked Document Reveals Alarming New Environmental Threats of Transatlantic Trade Pact
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–July 11, 2016. This morning, as the most recent round of trade negotiations between the United States and European Union began in Brussels, the Guardian reported a leaked document from the EU that reveals its intentions to include new, dangerous language in the proposed energy chapter of the[Read More…]
Dangerous Eastern US Heat Wave To Yield Highs In The 90s, 100s
By Alex Sosnowski, Senior Meteorologist by AccuWeather.com AccuWeather-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather reports a heat wave will extend across part of the eastern United States into this weekend. For some southern areas, temperatures will approach or exceed 100 F. For many areas, “this will be the hottest weather so far this year,” according to[Read More…]
Lawsuit Challenges EPA’s Failure to Update Sulfur, Nitrogen Pollution Standards
Groups Push for Improved Clean Air Rules to Protect Public Health, Environment OAKLAND, Calif.—(ENEWSPF)–July 7, 2016. Conservation and public-health groups filed a legal challenge today to the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to update air-pollution thresholds for sulfur and nitrogen. Standards for the dangerous air pollutants known as sulfur oxides[Read More…]
Department of Interior Issues Final Regulations to Raise Safety & Environmental Standards for Any Future Exploratory Drilling in U.S. Arctic Waters
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–July 7, 2016. Today, U.S. Department of the Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Janice Schneider, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Abigail Hopper and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Director Brian Salerno announced final regulations to ensure that any future exploratory drilling activities on[Read More…]
NOAA, Partners Predict Smaller Harmful Algal Bloom for Western Lake Erie
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 7, 2016. NOAA and its research partners predict that western Lake Erie will experience a less severe bloom than the record-setting one experienced last year during the harmful algal bloom season. The outlook reflects less discharge from the Maumee River and a return to an average nutrient runoff[Read More…]
Friends of the Earth Analysis: Leased Fossil Fuels on Public Lands, Oceans Will Be Producing Decades Beyond Paris Climate Targets
Study supports the calls on President Obama to ‘Keep It in the Ground’ WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–July 7, 2016. A new analysis finds that coal, oil and gas already under lease on public lands and oceans in the United States will last far beyond the point scientists predict the world will[Read More…]
