Shift from voluntary industrial agriculture pollution programs essential Seattle–(ENEWSPF)–April 7, 2016. The Western Environmental Law Center announces a new report, Agricultural Pollution in Puget Sound: Inspiration to Change Washington’s Reliance on Voluntary Incentive Programs to Save Salmon. Puget Sound’s poor water quality is a problem for ecosystem health, wild salmon[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 7, 2016.  Like us, you’d probably rather be in America’s great outdoors right now, spotting animals in their natural habitats. But don’t let being stuck behind a desk stop you. Adventure awaits just about anywhere, thanks to wildlife cams. They give us a glimpse of what’s happening in animals’ private[Read More…]

Error-filled Document Touts Shuttered Plants, Bankrupt Company OAKLAND, Calif.—(ENEWSPF)–April 7, 2016.  The Center for Biological Diversity and seven other groups today urged the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to withdraw a misleading and inaccurate report on “second-generation biofuels” — fuels made from wood, grasses or crop residues.[Read More…]

Study Marks First Time EPA Has Properly Examined Nationwide Pesticide Impacts on Rare Animals, Plants PORTLAND, Ore.—(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2016.   The Environmental Protection Agency’s first rigorous nationwide analysis of the effects of pesticides on endangered species finds that 97 percent of more than 1,700 animals and plants protected under the[Read More…]

Seattle, Washington–(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2016.  Late yesterday, the youth petitioners in a precedent-setting case over climate disruption in Washington state asked the court to step in yet again after the state Department of Ecology withdrew its proposed rule to reduce carbon emissions. By withdrawing the proposed rule, Ecology demonstrated it is[Read More…]

Justin Roberti AccuWeather.com AccuWeather Global Weather Center-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather reports the potential movement of a ‘cold blob’ of water in the North Atlantic Ocean may be the wild card in the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, experts say. The cold blob refers to a large, anomalous area of colder-than-normal sea-surface temperatures, located east of Newfoundland[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY:  Mike, thank you very, very much.  Thanks, more importantly, for your extraordinary leadership over the years.  I think everybody here knows that Mike Bloomberg has been a pioneer on so many different things, critical issues, and concepts – a great business person and entrepreneur of extraordinary[Read More…]

Those populations improving–now considered threatened, not endangered Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2016.  Two federal agencies today issued a final rule that will revise the listing for green sea turtles under the Endangered Species Act, including reclassifying turtles originating from two breeding populations from endangered to threatened status due to successful conservation[Read More…]

Center for Food Safety Certifies Second University Under BEE Protective Campaign PENNSYLVANIA–(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2016.  Center for Food Safety (CFS) congratulates Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania on becoming a designated neonicotinoid-free campus. Neonicotinoids are a class of pesticides known to have severe impacts on bee populations. Villanova is the second campus[Read More…]

MONTANA–(ENEWSPF)–April 4, 2016.  Today, the federal district court for Montana rejected a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) to deny protections for wolverines in the contiguous U.S. The court ruled the Service improperly ignored science and violated the Endangered Species Act. A broad coalition of conservation organizations[Read More…]